Our Vision:
Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today’s world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth.
We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas, we call this Borderless Creativity.
This is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities Advertising, Experience, PR, Consulting, and Health. This allows us to not only operate but also innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lie at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.
Our mission: We inspire brands and people to impact the world
How we do it: We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities
What we do: Borderless creativity
Today, Ogilvy is recognized as the world’s leading creative agency. We are also one of the most effective networks globally.
About Memac Ogilvy:
Memac Ogilvy is one of the leading creative networks in MENA with its flagship office in the UAE and a strong local footprint in the GCC and North Africa. It is part of the formidable worldwide WPP & Ogilvy network. It’s the only truly integrated comms network – with Consulting, Advertising- Brand & Content, PR, Experience & Health under 1 P&L and single leadership. Memac Ogilvy is the most integrated modern creative and effective partner for client growth in MENA. We inspire brands and people to impact the world. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions, with solid project
management expertise for agile and effective delivery as well as a thorough and passionate People agenda.
The agency is the most awarded Middle Eastern agency in Cannes as well as a big winner at the local award show Lynx. It has around 500 staff members.
What we're looking for:
We’re on the hunt for an outstanding Senior Graphic Designer who possesses conceptual and practical skill sets, to create integrated, brand-led communications. You will be capable of creating an idea, pushing the concept, and ensuring it is superbly resolved either as a standalone piece or as part of an integrated multi-disciplined campaign.
Your role will be to own the creation and maintenance of both our clients' marketing assets and content created to support their products, brands, design, and other marketing goals. From concept through to execution, you will improve user experience by bringing our client's brands to life and keeping it consistent across all touchpoints.
If that sounds like you, all you have to do now is convince us you’d be better at the job than anyone else.
To Succeed in This Role, You Need To:
· Understanding of social, web & all manner of digital platforms.
· Freehand Illustration Required.
· Vector graphics, Logo, and Lockup Designs.
· Complete understanding of Screen Printing file set-ups including but not limited to separations, positioning, choke, etc.
· Handle graphic projects from start to finish.
· Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop required.
· Graphic Design fundamentals including Color, Form, and Typography.
· Coordinate with clients and support team members and services as needed.
· Submit rough layouts and conceptual thumbnails for project approval.
· Reports to Art Director.
· Show initiative in growing allocated tasks/campaigns beyond what’s expected.
· Establishes visual style and user experiences that will effectively communicate with the target and fulfill project objectives.
· Responsible for the proper placement, context, and meaning of every visual element within a creative assignment.
· Stays current with industry/advertising trends, and applies them strategically.
· Assists creative lead in presenting work to clients.
· Participates in brainstorming as required.
· Assists in developing concepts and presentation materials for business development projects.
· Collaborates with other creative staff to share learning and experience and to establish initiatives that will improve Ogilvy’s creative product.
· Contributes to overall office morale, spirit, character, and work quality.
· Manage a team of junior designers
Memac Ogilvy inspires brands and people to impact the world. We exist to create iconic, culture-changing, value-driven ideas for our clients.
Borderless Creativity is our lifeblood. We operate, innovate, and create at the intersection of our talented people, across advertising disciplines such as strategic thinking and distinctive idea creation, through a social-first approach — alongside our wider Memac Ogilvy family of Advertising, Experience, Health, Consulting, and PR. Never have there been more opportunities available to communicate incredible ideas, impact culture, and influence consumer behavior. Paid advertising is a consistent, regular, and controllable way of getting a business and brand’s core message in front of consumers in a way that no other medium can. Creativity is our greatest differentiator as we transcend the status quo and shift culture.
How We’ll Support You Memac Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.