Creative and Design Manager

About this role

The Creative & 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

Creative Leadership & Production

• Lead the conceptualization, prototyping, and production of high-impact multimedia deliverables, including motion graphics, animation, video, and presentation design, aligned with the firm's global brand and technical specifications.

• Provide strategic creative direction and mentorship to a cross-functional team of designers, storytellers, and external vendors, raising visual communication standards.

• Translate complex business and technical concepts into clear, compelling visual narratives for presentations, client proposals, and thought leadership pieces.

• Develop key visual assets such as illustrations, infographics, and icons to support communication needs.

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Oversee end-to-end creative project lifecycles, from concept and content strategy to final delivery, managing timelines, resources, and priorities.

• Act as the main point of contact for senior leadership and stakeholders, advising on visual storytelling, design execution, and branding.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure timely, high-quality delivery against strategic goals.

Brand & Communications

• Protect brand consistency across client-facing and internal materials, ensuring compliance with brand guidelines.

• Design and deploy internal communications such as leadership newsletters using an email marketing platform (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud).

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive adoption of new design tools, generative AI tools, methodologies, and best practices.

• Use data and feedback to improve design impact, engagement, and team productivity.

• Stay ahead of emerging design, motion, and technology trends and share knowledge across the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, computer graphics and animation, multimedia, visual communication, or a related field.

• Project management training or certification (PMP or similar) is an advantage.

• Additional training in motion graphics/animation, UX/UI design, or visual storytelling is an advantage.

Experience

• [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.

• Experience managing creative projects end to end, from brief to delivery.

Skills & Competencies

• 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.

• Strong visual storytelling and design thinking; solid UX/UI fundamentals.

• Project and resource management, prioritization, and strategic planning.

• Stakeholder management and the confidence to advise senior leaders.

• Coaching and mentoring skills, with a collaborative leadership style.

• Excellent English and Arabic are mandatory.