Creative and Design Manager

About the role

The Creative and Design Manager leads the design and content function, driving visual identity, creative strategy and brand consistency across client-facing and internal initiatives. The role manages a multidisciplinary team and turns complex business ideas into clear, compelling visual stories, from presentations and proposals to motion graphics and video.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the conceptualization, prototyping and production of multimedia deliverables such as motion graphics, animation, video and presentation design, aligned with the firm's global brand and technical specifications.
• Provide creative direction and mentorship to a cross-functional team of designers, storytellers and external vendors, and raise visual communication standards.
• Translate complex business and technical concepts into clear visual narratives for presentations, client proposals and thought leadership pieces.
• Develop key visual assets such as illustrations, infographics and icons.
• Oversee end-to-end creative project lifecycles, manage timelines, resources and priorities, and act as the main point of contact for senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Protect brand consistency across client-facing and internal materials, and design and deploy internal communications such as leadership newsletters using an email marketing platform (e.g. Salesforce Marketing Cloud).
• Drive adoption of new design tools, generative AI tools and best practices, use data and feedback to improve design impact and team productivity, and stay ahead of emerging design and technology trends.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, computer graphics and animation, multimedia, visual communication or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in graphic design, motion graphics or creative production, including 3+ years in a lead or managerial role.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring designers and managing external agencies or vendors.
• Experience in a professional services, consulting, corporate communications or agency environment, designing for senior leadership and clients.
• Strong portfolio covering motion graphics, video, presentation design and brand collateral.
• Excellent English and Arabic are mandatory.

Required skills

• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, XD; Firefly or other generative AI tools.
• Advanced PowerPoint and presentation design.
• Email and communications platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Project and resource management, stakeholder management, coaching and mentoring.
• Project management training or certification (PMP or similar) is an advantage; motion graphics, UX/UI design or visual storytelling training is also an advantage.