Lead Digital Designer

<p><span>At Ounass, we’re redefining the luxury e-commerce experience in the Middle East, bringing together the world’s most coveted fashion, beauty, jewellery, home and lifestyle brands.</span></p><p><span>We’re looking for a <strong>Lead Digital Designer</strong> to join our Creative team and take the creative lead for our commercial fashion vertical.</span></p><p><span>Working closely with Editorial, Merchandising, Content and Product, you’ll help shape and deliver a seamless customer experience across fashion. You’ll lead creative ideation, governance and sign-off across fashion roll-outs, while identifying opportunities to elevate the category and ensuring every asset remains true to the Ounass brand.</span></p><h4><span>What You’ll Be Doing</span></h4><ul><li><p><span>Contribute to the creative strategy and roadmap for the commercial fashion vertical, ensuring alignment with wider business, brand and customer experience objectives.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Identify opportunities to improve the creative and customer experience within fashion, recommending design-led solutions that support conversion and elevate brand perception.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Act as the creative lead for the commercial fashion vertical, partnering closely with Editorial, Merchandising, Content and Product teams to deliver a seamless and elevated customer experience.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Support the ideation of fashion campaigns, editorial features and commercial touchpoints, ensuring designs are compelling, differentiated and aligned with the Ounass brand and seasonal creative direction.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Own creative sign-off and quality governance across fashion roll-outs, ensuring all assets meet brand guidelines, technical specifications and business deadlines.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Support and oversee the allocation and roll-out of key brand exposures across Ounass channels, creating luxury brand assets and acting as a key creative contact for luxury brand stakeholders.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Support the Creative Operations Manager with the day-to-day management of the design team, including project allocation and workload prioritisation across the fashion vertical.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Collaborate with the wider Creative Leads across Non-Fashion and Brand &amp; Strategic to align creative approaches, share best practices and ensure a consistent brand experience across categories.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Lead the creation and roll-out of design templates and toolkits for fashion, ensuring their consistent use across site, app, newsletters and other customer touchpoints.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Provide hands-on creative direction across digital graphic creation, animation and motion graphics, guiding the team on advanced design execution and quality.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Act as a guardian of the Ounass brand guidelines within fashion, developing clear brand playbooks and design toolkits to ensure consistency across touchpoints.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Apply strong typography, UX/UI and layout expertise to enhance the customer journey across mobile, app and web.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Work closely with Digital Merchandising, Styling, Product, UX and Front-End Development teams to create a unified and engaging customer experience.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Present and pitch creative concepts, strategic recommendations and campaign ideas to internal stakeholders and external brand partners.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Stay up to date with platform, industry, fashion and creative trends, proactively identifying opportunities to keep Ounass ahead within the category.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Manage multiple fashion projects and briefs simultaneously, delivering within agreed timelines and brand guidelines.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Contribute to improving team processes, templates, training and ways of working to help the Creative team become more efficient and impactful.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Mentor, guide and train junior team members, delegating effectively and providing clear, constructive feedback to support their development.</span></p></li></ul><h4><span>What We’re Looking For</span></h4><ul><li><p><span><strong>6+ years of experience</strong> in a creative or design role, either in-house or within an agency, ideally within fashion, retail or luxury e-commerce.</span></p></li><li><p><span>A strong design portfolio showcasing creativity and digital design expertise, ideally within fashion, retail or luxury.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, with the ability to take digital creative from ideation through to execution.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Ability to conceptualise and produce 3D and animated graphics across multiple media formats.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Strong conceptual and executional design skills, with experience supporting brand and campaign activations while maintaining brand guidelines.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Experience creating and rolling out design templates across multiple digital touchpoints.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Ability to conceptualise, lead and execute storyboards to support design and video production.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Strong knowledge of typography, colour and layout.</span></p></li><li><p><span>A strong understanding of UX/UI design principles and how design can enhance the digital customer experience.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to interpret market and customer insights and translate them into design decisions.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to pitch and defend creative direction to internal and external partners.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Ability to prioritise and manage multiple briefs, projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.</span></p></li><li><p><span>A good understanding of digital marketing and how design supports customer acquisition and retention.</span></p></li><li><p><span>A Bachelor’s degree in Design, Art or another relevant creative field.</span></p></li><li><p><span>English and Arabic language skills.</span></p></li></ul><h4><span>What’s In It for You?</span></h4><ul><li><p><span><strong>Creative ownership:</strong> Play a leading role in shaping how fashion comes to life across the Ounass digital experience.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Luxury brand exposure:</strong> Work closely with some of the world’s most recognised luxury fashion brands and help translate their stories for the Ounass customer.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Visible impact:</strong> See your ideas come to life across high-visibility digital touchpoints, from campaigns and editorial moments to site, app and brand experiences.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Cross-functional collaboration:</strong> Work alongside talented teams across Creative, Editorial, Styling, Merchandising, Product, UX and Technology.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Room to influence:</strong> Bring new ideas, challenge the way we do things and help evolve our creative standards, processes and digital experiences.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Opportunity to lead:</strong> Mentor other creatives, influence design quality and play an important role in the continued development of the wider Creative team.</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Be part of luxury e-commerce at scale:</strong> Join a fast-moving digital business where fashion, creativity, technology and customer experience come together.</span></p></li></ul>