At AKQA, we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create a better future. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive ideas, services and experiences that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

Creatives at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight to craft beautiful brands, products and experiences that stop people in their tracks. Skilled storytellers, they work in a multidisciplinary environment to unlock new value for our clients.

As a Senior Arabic Copywriter in MENA, you will play a critical role in shaping ideas through language, bringing cultural depth, precision, and originality to everything you write. You will lead the development of Arabic copy across campaigns, platforms, products, and experiences, ensuring the work is not just translated, but born in culture.

There will be the opportunity to learn and grow within a creative and technically advanced environment, with access to ongoing personal and professional development. At AKQA, we’re committed to your growth, as well as your wellbeing.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Lead with hunger, not hierarchy. Drive the creation of bold ideas across campaigns, products, and experiences with the tenacity of a maker and the mindset of an owner; from the spark to the shipped work.
• Write Arabic that lives in culture. Craft original Arabic copy across Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialects, with a deep understanding of tone, nuance, rhythm, and cultural context. Avoid translation thinking, create work that feels native from the start.
• Be a hands-on craft obsessive. Write, refine, rewrite, and elevate. Whether it’s a brand platform, a film script, a case film, a product story, or a social headline, your craft must push the work further every time.
• Bring cultural intelligence.Inject regional insights, behaviours, and tensions into the work. Understand what people care about, how they speak, and what will move them.
• Tell stories that travel. Shape narratives that work in film, social media, experience, product, and PR, and understand how storytelling behaves in the region, in culture, and in global markets.
• Think beyond the ad. Collaborate with strategists, technologists, designers and creatives to shape ideas that live as acts, innovations, prototypes, platforms and content ecosystems, not just campaigns.
• Bring energy that lifts the room. Embrace challenges, pressure, late pivots, and wild briefs as fuel. Be the person who raises the creative temperature and pushes peers to be braver.
• Create work that earns attention. Ideas should be culturally relevant, PR-able, and built to travel, grounded in insight, engineered for conversation, and designed to make brands part of culture.
• Operate like a modern creative. Comfortable switching between AI tools, emerging tech, social formats, product thinking, long-form storytelling, and classic craft to unlock new possibilities.
• Collaborate fearlessly. Work fluidly with multidisciplinary talent across AKQA’s global network, from Ryhad to Dubai to Denmark, bringing clarity, momentum, and a creative point of view.
• Present with conviction. Clearly articulate thinking and storytelling in internal reviews, client meetings, and pitch rooms, driving alignment, belief, and excitement around the work.
• Contribute to the culture. Share inspiration, mentor younger creatives, push experimentation, and help build a studio where ambition, curiosity, and relentless craft are the norm.

QUALIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS

• 5+ years of relevant creative agency or brand side experience with large global projects/clients
• You have  compelling work demonstrating high-quality Arabic writing and concepting across campaigns, platforms, and experiences.
• You are fluent across Arabic dialects, with a deep understanding of linguistic nuance, cultural context, and tone of voice.
• A portfolio with crafted and globally-recognised brand, campaign and experience work, with case studies of work that had a direct impact on the client's business.
• Digital product experience as well as through the line storytelling. 
•  Confident presenter of ideas both internally and to clients.
• Have outstanding written and oral communication skills, interpersonal and interdepartmental.
• Bachelors Degree preferred, but all disciplines welcome.
• You have extensive experience with software like Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Keynote.
• Natural curiosity that allows you to find inspiration in anything and everything, with an especially keen eye on the future of media and technology.
• You have a drive to break boundaries and craft the best ideas of their kind in the world.
• Possesses excellent writing skill in English (Arabic will be a bonus)
• Craft-driven in how you execute work, presentations, and creative in general.

Artefact is a new generation of data service providers, specialising in data consulting and data-driven digital marketing. It is dedicated to transforming data into business impact across the entire value chain of organisations. We are proud to say we’re enjoying skyrocketing growth.

The backbone of our consulting missions, today our Data consulting team has more than 400 consultants covering all Artefact's offers (and more): data marketing, data governance, strategy consulting, product owner…

What will you be doing? 

• Manage projects as well as lead our business growth, the data consulting teams welcome all business and technical background joiners, who would thrive as an expert in a specific field, or truly versatile players.
• In this fast-paced, fast-growing industry, the most important qualities in our eyes are intellectual curiosity, autonomy and dynamism.
• You wield both “business” and “data” knowledge, with experience ideally in a digital marketing consulting firm; You already have a first understanding of digital technologies, and care to develop more in the exciting world of data and digital business

What are we looking for? 

• You must have previous Management Consultancy, ideally within Strategy Consulting or Data Consulting.
• Graduated from Business school or Engineering, in our eyes' the most important qualities are intellectual curiosity, autonomy, and dynamism.
• We are looking for profiles with the double hat “business” and “data”, with at least 1-2 years of experience, and in the use of BI tools or data analysis.
• You will already understand digital technologies (Tracking, Machine Learning, RTB, Big Data, Platform as a Service,…).

Artefact is the place to be: come and build the future of data and marketing!
Innovation: We have a passion for creating impacting projects and believe innovation can come from anyone.
Action: We make things rather than telling people how to make them.
Collaboration: We believe in bringing talented people together, winning together, and in learning from each other.

Artefact is a new generation of data service providers specialising in data consulting and data-driven digital marketing. It is dedicated to transforming data into business impact across the entire value chain of organisations. We are proud to say we’re enjoying skyrocketing growth.

The backbone of our consulting missions, today our Data consulting team has more than 400 consultants covering all Artefact's offers (and more): data marketing, data governance, strategy consulting, product owner…

What you will be doing?
As a Data Engineer, your role involves crafting and maintaining robust data pipelines, utilising Python and SQL, to ensure efficient extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Data Pipeline Development: Building and optimising data pipelines to facilitate seamless data flow across systems and platforms.
• Database Management: Managing databases, ensuring their integrity, and implementing data storage and retrieval solutions.
• Cloud Services Integration: Leveraging cloud services such as MS Azure, GCP, and AWS to architect and deploy scalable data solutions.
• Machine Learning Integration: Collaborating with teams to integrate machine learning models into data pipelines for enhanced data processing.
• Utilising Spark & Kafka: Implementing and working with Spark and Kafka for real-time data processing and analytics.

What we are looking for?

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and database management.
• Experience with Data Pipelines ETL, Cloud Services (MS Azure, GCP preferred), ML Modeling, Spark & Kafka.
• Proven problem-solving skills and a solution-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively within teams and with stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen with an interest in business-facing roles.
• Adaptability and a start-up mentality to thrive in a dynamic environment.
• Candidates with similar skill sets and experiences have excelled in technology firms or consultancy firms.
• Successful candidates often possess Computer Science, Electronics, and Communication Engineering degrees.