About this role
Creative Designer
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES We are looking for a Creative Designer to help deliver compelling marketing campaigns and brand experiences across the Middle East region. You'll work across a wide range of channels, creating high-quality creative assets that bring our campaigns, products, and brand to life. We're looking for a creative designer who can contribute ideas, develop creative concepts, and execute work to a high standard across digital, social, web, email, events, and print. Working closely with the Middle East Marketing Manager, you'll play a key role in helping us scale creative output, improve speed to market, and reduce reliance on external agencies. Creative Design & Campaign Delivery
• Design high-quality creative assets for marketing campaigns that align with business objectives and brand guidelines.
• Prepare design options, layouts, and visual concepts for review and feedback.
• Use AI-powered creative tools to accelerate concept development, asset creation and content adaptation
• Help evolve and maintain our visual identity across all customer touchpoints
• Ensure all creative work aligns with brand guidelines and delivers a consistent customer experience
• Explore new creative approaches and technologies that enhance content quality, efficiency, and engagement
Creative Operations & Collaboration
• Partner with marketing manager and stakeholders to deliver design assets, templates and creative solutions that meet business objectives
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and attention to detail
• Prepare and deliver final artwork and assets across digital and print formats
• Collaborate effectively across global teams and contribute to a culture of creative excellence
AI & Creative Innovation
• Leverage AI-powered creative tools to improve creative workflows, increase output, and reduce production time
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive design tasks and streamline content creation processes
• Stay informed on emerging AI technologies and evaluate how they can be applied across creative and marketing functions
• Use AI responsibly and in line with brand, legal, compliance, and governance requirements
• Contribute to the adoption of AI-enabled best practices across the wider creative team
KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
• 5+ years' experience in creative design or graphic design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating campaign creative, digital design, branding, events & print design work
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva and Figma
• Experience designing for social media, digital advertising, websites, email marketing, presentations, and print
• Experience using AI-powered creative tools, such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, ChatGPT, or similar platforms to support creative development and content production
• Strong understanding of typography, layout, visual hierarchy, and brand design principles
• Experience working within brand guidelines while bringing fresh creative thinking to projects
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent English, Arabic is a plus.
• Motion graphics or basic video editing experience using After Effects, Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar tools.
• Experience creating short-form social media content, animated banners, GIFs, or simple video assets.
• Experience building AI-assisted creative workflows or implementing creative automation processes
• Experience working with global brands or international marketing teams
• Experience within financial services, fintech, or regulated industries
CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age