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Art Director

Ogilvy MENABaghdad, Iraq · Posted 11 months ago
Full-time
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About Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy more than 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity—innovating at the intersection of intelligence, imagination and influence, with experts across advertising, sports & entertainment, PR & social, consulting, and health collaborating seamlessly across more than 120 offices spanning 90 countries. Ogilvy was named Network of the Year at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC for the fourth consecutive year, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel. For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About 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 Ogilvy network. It’s the only truly integrated comms network – with beyond Brand & Advertising, a deep PR & Influence, Social Media Performance and Customer Engagement & Digital capability under 1 P&L and under single leadership. Memac Ogilvy is about Making Brands Matter. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions (we are not a traditional advertising agency anymore) with solid project management expertise for agile and effective delivery as well as through a passionate talent 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 over 600 staff members. 

What You’ll Do:

Creative Management:

  • Think creatively and devise imaginative and intelligent advertisements based on client briefs.
  • Push boundaries of original thinking to explore new creative solutions.
  • Communicate creative ideas effectively to a wide audience of varying levels of creative knowledge.
  • Translate the strategic creative concept into different creative executions to be presented to the client.
  • Execute creative ideas to the highest standard involving and communicating with the necessary creative team.
  • Modify initial ideas into workable concepts until the client is satisfied.
  • Align the copy with art direction and vice versa.
  • Deliver work to brief on time and on budget, to the highest quality.
  • Develop smart, single-minded ideas that are on strategy.
  • Maintain proper layout and conceptual execution throughout all phases of campaign.
  • Develop creative ideas and concepts, often in partnership with the creative team.
  • Present ideas to colleagues and clients.
  • Update digital media with snappy, timely content.
  • Amend, revise or redevelop adverts or campaigns in response to feedback from the creative director, account team or clients.
  • Oversee campaigns through the production stage to completion.
  • Work on several campaigns at once, sometimes under pressure and often to tight deadlines.

Responsibilities:

  • Deliver work to brief on time and to quality standards and quantity required.
  • Grasp the concept of idea versus execution and understand ideas when identified by others.
  • Identify ideas in own work and explain it clearly.
  • Push boundaries when it comes to execution and finding new techniques in Art direction.

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