The posting
Job Summary
The Creative Lead will be responsible for driving the design and creative aspects of a pitch or project from the ideas stage through to delivery.
Key Expectations
Beyond qualifications and experience, you are expected to demonstrate a mindset that drives great work. These expectations reflect how you collaborate, create, and deliver impact every day.
- Be curious about everything: From spatial design to storytelling to why cereal tastes better at night—curiosity is fuel. Ask questions, connect dots, stay endlessly interested.
- Challenge the obvious: If something feels too easy, too expected—it probably is. Flip it, stretch it, break it. The magic tends to live just beyond the safe zone.
- Test, learn, evolve: We experiment. We make mistakes. We figure it out. What matters is momentum, intention, and the willingness to refine and improve.
- Create with emotion: Our work should move people. Whether it’s joy, wonder, or a pause for reflection—make them feel something. If it lands flat, we’re not done yet.
- Care about the details, but keep the story in focus: Yes, every prop, comma, pixel, and cable matters—but only when it’s in service of a bigger idea that’s worth telling.
Key Responsibilities
Client and Team Collaboration
- Liaise with CCO, CD, Strategy Team, Tech Team, and Clients, to take control of incoming briefs, interrogate them, and own the response.
- Translate client briefs into creatively strategic proposals within defined timeframes.
- Work with designers and copywriters in brainstorming solutions.
Creative Development
- Lead and motivate project teams, ensuring clear communication of goals, roles, and responsibilities.
- Answer creative briefs with brilliant ideas that are bold, distinctive, and incorporate the latest technologies when relevant.
- Create impactful design solutions and develop concepts that visually communicate the essence of great stories.
- Present completed concepts and developmental narratives with an innate sense of great storytelling.
- Generate clear ideas and concepts visualized by sketches, storyboards, and roughs for experiential spaces.
- Ensure that the final product matches the original design concept.
- Maintain the agency's standard for creative excellence.
Project Management
- Determine objectives, work within budgets, and ensure feasibility alongside other departments to fulfill the client’s brief.
- Stay up-to-date with media, marketing, design, and tech developments and tools, sharing findings to achieve perpetual improvement across the company.
Leadership and Innovation
- Serve as the Creative Ambassador for The Hanging House, spearheading the cultivation of an innovative and inspiring environment through cross-functional collaboration and trend-setting creativity.
General & Additional Responsibilities
- All the above accountabilities include but are not limited to any additional/new tasks or responsibilities assigned by the line Manager.
Job Specification
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7-8 years of UAE experience in a creative or similar role within the events industry.
- A good portfolio of past design and creative projects.
- Extensive knowledge of typography, 2D & 3D design (both static and motion), color, and production.
- A painstaking eye for detail and non-negotiable high standards of delivery.
- Design skills – illustrative and/or Adobe Creative Suite.
- A creative mindset and an inquisitive mind
- A keen eye for detail, time management, and multitasking abilities.
- Leadership, teamwork, problem-solving attitude, and creativity skills.
- A creative mindset and an inquisitive mind.
- Knack for storytelling and non-negotiable high standards of delivery
- Ability and willingness to quickly adapt to new technologies, effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects at once
- Ability to take in constructive criticism and produce quality work
- Excellent writing and presentation skills.
- Hunger for learning and curiosity about the world.
