Creative Director

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Job description

Memories Events Management, an award-winning event agency based in Dubai, Riyadh and Beirut is seeking an Executive Creative Director (Events Management).

About the Company: Memories is an award-winning regional leader in events design, planning, and management, showcasing unrivalled passion, creativity, vision, and determination to bring out only the most spectacular and ground-breaking event experiences to the spotlight. Bringing pure artistic imagination and the unexpected to life, we make the impossible possible with no compromises. Expanding around the world in the Gulf, Europe, Middle East, and United States, we always ambitiously strive to exceed all expectations and set a new benchmark for international standards.

Memories Events Management (MEM) is a subsidiary of Clan Investment. Clan Investment is a visionary holding company dedicated to excellence and innovation, managing a diverse portfolio across various industries.

Job Purpose: We're looking for an Executive Creative Director to lead the creative vision of a fast-growing events management company at the forefront of the UAE's experiential landscape. This is a role for someone who doesn't just design events — they architect experiences, shape narratives, and command a room whether it's a client boardroom or a live production floor.

If you've led creative teams on multi-million-dirham productions, know how to turn a blank space into a story, and can hold your own in front of the most demanding clients in the region, we want to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end creative direction for large-scale experiential events and productions, from initial concept through to live execution.
• Develop and pitch bold, conceptually driven ideas directly to major clients — with the confidence and polish to win the room.
• Translate abstract briefs into strong spatial and scenographic concepts, thinking in terms of environment, movement, and audience experience — not just visuals.
• Build compelling, high-impact creative decks that sell the vision as effectively as they explain it.
• Lead and mentor multiple creative teams (design, content, production) simultaneously across concurrent projects.
• Own creative budgets and scope on productions in the multi-million-dollar range.
• Push back constructively on client briefs when a stronger creative direction exists — you challenge clients as a trusted advisor, not a yes-man.
• Maintain and elevate the studio's creative standard to award-winning calibre.
• Meet or exceed key performance indicators (KPIs) set by the Company.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by Manager or Department Head

Qualifications

• Proven track record in large-scale experiential and event production — brand activations, live experiences, major corporate or entertainment productions.
• Confident, polished presenter — comfortable pitching directly to C-suite and major client stakeholders.
• Strong conceptual and storytelling ability, with a portfolio that shows ideas carried through from concept to execution.
• Demonstrated scenography and spatial design thinking — you understand how physical space shapes experience.
• Excellent deck-building and visual storytelling skills (Keynote/PowerPoint-level fluency expected).
• Experience leading and managing multiple creative teams at once.
• Hands-on experience delivering multi-million-dollar productions.
• The confidence and credibility to challenge and guide clients, not just execute briefs.
• An award-recognized portfolio (industry awards, major activations, or standout campaigns).
• UAE events industry experience strongly preferred.

Competencies

• Commercial Acumen
• Communication skills
• Planning & Organizing
• Detailed Oriented
• Time Management
• Analytical skills
• Risk Oriented
• Teamwork

‘Clan Investment and subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunities Employer’

Shortlisting decisions will be based on the Company needs, and not on race or color, residence status or national origin or ancestry, gender or orientation, age or weight, religion or creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, or any other factors.

Clan Investment and subsidiaries will never request, directly or indirectly via a third-party, any form of payment(s) from any potential applicant during any part of the recruitment process.

Job Type: Full-time

Application Question(s):

• What is your expected Salary per month ?

Experience:

• proven track in large event production : 5 years (Required)
• conceptual and storytelling ability: 5 years (Required)

Language:

• Arabic (Preferred)

Location:

• Dubai (Required)

Work Location: In person