Creative / Art Director

Job Description

About Us

New Black a full-service creative and post-production studio.

The ultimate destination for content creators in the entertainment industry among the MENA region. We offer best-in-class solutions for our clients to enrich their audience experience with our passionate award-winning team and intensive media production capabilities. 

At the Creative Services Department: We offer a wide range of content marketing solutions, for Films, TV Shows and Series starting from the main artwork, billboards and campaigns, trailers, sales tapes, and video spots. Covering all content branding needs whether for theatrical release, broadcasters, or online platforms. We’re experienced in broadcast design and branding for TV Channels and digital platforms.

What We’re Looking For

 We’re seeking a forward-thinking Creative Art Director to join our Creative Team.The ideal person will be a team player with a deep commitment to our craft, energetic while maintaining a Zen-like approach to the work.

The candidate should be collaborative, a great communicator, adore conceptual thinking, have stunning visual execution, and a bag of enthusiasm ready to unleash onto our team and clients. If this rings true to you, we’d love to meet!

• Must have creative flair, originality and be a passionate visual storyteller.
• Must be ambitious, flexible, innovative, and enthusiastic.
• Must consider yourself an expert at conjuring-up, writing/expressing, designing, pitching concepts and winning projects.
• You enjoy watching TV Series, movies and TV Shows and talk about them.
• You live and dream design, and know-how to ensure our projects look finished! from rebrands, on-air promo toolkits to Show Main Titles.

Responsibilities

• Work with the in-house creative team and outside freelancers.
• Prepare the creative/project brief; know how to extract great ideas from others, and ensure technical and design standards are met.
• Look at frames with a critical eye against the client’s brief.
• Construct a comprehensive presentation deck – tell the project’s narrative.
• Accept client creative reviews and serve as the client-facing creative lead on projects if necessary.
• Grounded in a traditional motion graphics design process-from written treatments/concepts to mood boards to design/style frames.
• Expected to keep up to date with the current industry trends.
• Must deliver ready to use materials (Prints, Digital, etc)

Skills & Interests

• A track record of resourcefulness is a plus. This is a hands-on position.
• Must speak Typography language, an expert in Arabic typography rules.
• Deep understanding of fundamental visual design principles.
• An awareness of the competitive business environment in which we work.
• Ideally an interest in new technologies and pushing new boundaries where others haven’t.
• Adobe suite. 3D and Compositing comfort and direction is a bonus.