Senior Art Director - Riyadh, KSA

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.        

Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities Advertising, Experience, PR, Consulting and Health .   This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent.  We believe impact and magic lies 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 under 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 counts around 500 staff members.

What we're looking for:

We’re on the hunt for an extremely ambitious, highly proactive, and insanely conceptual Senior Creative / Art Director that has one goal - to make the most famous work of their career! You’ll be partnering with other Senior Creatives you’ll be one of our go-to Creatives to work across our amazing portfolio brands as well as pitches and pro-active projects. You’ll have an appetite to create culturally relevant work that causes a stir and creates fame inside and outside of the industry.

We’re looking for people who push beyond the usual borders of marketing – creating memorable experiences for people no matter where they are or what they’re doing. You’ll be fascinated by all the ways people interact with brands. At every touchpoint. From the first time they hear about them, to the thousandth time they hear from them. And you’ll be itching to inject creativity into every interaction. You’ll have ambitions as big as your ideas. You’ll embrace every brief as an opportunity. And you’ll believe – quite rightly – that creativity and science are two sides of the same coin. We don’t need you to be a traditional art director/ Creative. But craft is incredibly important. You’ll also be expected to teach these craft skills to the junior creatives.
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:

• Think conceptually and solve business problems presented by our client.
• Understand the importance of the “big idea” and how well the work reflects it within the framework of the clients’ brand.
• Understand the marketing objectives and demonstrate an ability to deliver the “message” through design.
• Create and conceptualise multiple concepts for new assignments.
• Ability to execute ideas flawlessly - paying particular attention to craft.
• Contribute to the communication, demonstration, and evolution of the Ogilvy creative product, and to clients at the highest possible standard.
• Interact with the client and account management team to gain a total understanding of the client’s business strategy and the market in which it is competing.
• Be at ease presenting to key clients and engaging them with their creative thinking.
• Be an independent team who can take a brief and (working into the Creative Director) - conceptualise the idea and show how it could execute across all forms of media.
• Awareness of emerging trends in relevant technologies.
• Be always looking at proactive opportunities and relentlessly pursuing them.
• Strong sense of how marketing communication should be implemented.
• First-hand knowledge and understanding of communication and media beyond the usual channels of film and print.
• Proven ability to manage and organise multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Habitually on top of inspiring, cutting-edge trends, and developments.

Qualifications:

• A strong portfolio (link in the CV) showcasing conceptual thinking, visual excellence, and brand communication expertise.
• 5+ years of Art Director experience in an agency setting.
• Proven ability to translate complex briefs into compelling creative solutions.
• Solid understanding of marketing principles and achieving business objectives through campaigns.
• Proficiency in industry-standard design software (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite).
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive, self-starting attitude with a strong work ethic and passion for creative excellence.
• Collaborative team player comfortable working with diverse individuals.
• Relentless pursuit of innovative ideas.

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 YouMemac 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.