Creative Lead / Design Director - Saudi Arabia
Canva, Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities

• Direct design on key template projects across the locale-specific projects 
• Work closely with a vibrant and friendly creative studio, directing design, photography and illustration. This is an opportunity to deliver a wide variety of creative campaigns, with freedom to influence design direction, and the chance to create elegant, on-trend designs every day. 
• Build our internal team to meet partner needs whilst inspiring and developing our talented freelancers to create high-quality print designs. 
• Work with the Studio Manager and manage your team in order to execute jobs successfully on deadline and to brief
• Brief a design team to create beautiful and usable animated and static  templates
• Brief and manage the asset creation process with our internal and external sources of imagery, music tracks, video footage, stickers, and animations so that we have the best assets to work with
• Provide design feedback to team members with sensitivity and honesty, helping them to grow and develop their skills
• Own curation and quality assurance for templates
• Work closely with the team developing Canva’s product and ensure that our templates evolve with and inform our features
• Research competitors, trends, patterns and best-practises, visual/interaction design inspiration, user and business insights
• Ensure our designers create with usability requirements in mind
• Produce and integrate effective & efficient design practices
• Support the team’s scalability through documentation and process improvement.

Experience you will need:

• 5+ years experience as an Senior Designer or Art Director creating a diverse range of print and digital designs
• Experience in and a love for design trends and styles that are specific to Saudi Arabi
• Experience leading a small team of designers, and providing professional support and development for junior and senior designers
• A love for print and editorial design, with experience in print production processes, and the ability to prepare files for print flawlessly
• A passion for writing simple and clear briefs, with demonstrated experience in commissioning photographers and other creatives
• A strong portfolio demonstrating your passion for designing clean, elegant, and beautiful designs
• The confidence to try new things, and a passion for big ideas and storytelling
• The ability to brief illustrators, photographers and videographers to create beautiful and quality content
• The ability to work collaboratively in a creative team environment
• Diligence to hit deadlines, and offer suggestions to streamline and improve team processes

Job Rewards and Benefits