Creative Director
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
About NCM NCM is a leading online broker with an international footprint and client base. Our global multi-asset trading platform provides clients with intuitive and safe access to investment opportunities across diverse international financial markets.
The NCM Group was established in 2009 and enjoys a celebrated heritage spanning more than two decades, with regulated and licensed operations in five global jurisdictions including the UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, and Turkey.
About the Role We are looking for a Creative Director to own and elevate the creative output of the Group across every market we operate in. This is a senior, hands-on role with real ownership, you will set the visual and verbal standard for the brand and hold it consistently across markets, languages, and channels.
This is a full-time position with a long-term mandate. You will build the creative function, not simply deliver a project.
Responsibilities
- Own the creative direction across all brand, marketing, and product output.
- Build and maintain the visual identity system: typography, color, layout, iconography, imagery, and data visualization.
- Write, maintain, and enforce the brand guidelines across all regional offices.
- Lead and review the work of designers and copywriters, holding a consistently high-quality bar.
- Translate commercial objectives into creative strategy and clear, executable direction.
- Direct creative across digital, campaign, social, product, presentation, event, and print applications.
- Ensure every piece of output is bilingual-ready and works properly in both English and Arabic.
- Ensure all creative meets regulatory and compliance requirements in each jurisdiction.
- Present, explain, and defend creative decisions to executive stakeholders, including C-level.
- Manage multiple concurrent workstreams and deliver on agreed deadlines without chasing.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a creative role, including experience at the Creative Director or Art Director level.
- A strong portfolio showing identity and design systems, not only single campaigns or one-off assets (Applications without a portfolio will not be considered).
- Full working proficiency in English and Arabic.
- Exceptional eye for detail: typography, composition, and spacing. You should be able to look at a layout and immediately see what is wrong with it.
- A modern, current design sensibility.
- A generator of ideas: you arrive at conversations with options, directions, and points of view, not a blank page waiting for a brief.
- Genuinely reliable on deadlines. Senior stakeholders and regional teams will depend on your timelines.
- Professional and composed under pressure, with the maturity to work directly with executive management.
- Able to give and receive direct feedback without friction.
- Confident working across multiple markets, languages, and cultural contexts at once.
- Strong command of industry-standard design and prototyping tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in financial services, fintech, banking, trading, or another regulated industry.
- Experience directing brand work across multiple countries.
- Graphic & Motion design or video direction capability.
- Experience building a brand or design system from the ground up.
- Experience hiring, briefing, and managing creative talent.
What We Offer
- Full ownership of the creative direction for an established, licensed international group.
- Direct access to executive decision-makers and short approval chains.
- A long-term role with a growing scope, not a fixed-term project.
- Exposure to markets across the GCC, the Levant, and Turkey.
How to Apply To apply, please send your CV and a link to your portfolio to career@ncminvest.com with the subject line "Creative Director - Beirut". Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.
