30 Design Leadership jobs in Qatar

You will set and safeguard the creative vision under the leadership of the head of studio for our next game and future slate. You will translate that vision into clear pillars, and lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver a compelling, commercially viable experience. You combine taste and systems thinking with production know-how. You are able to evolve processes, raise the quality bar, and mentor teams of varying experience levels. You have 10+ years in games with 2+ shipped titles (PC/console preferred), including a substantive leadership role on at least one of them. Role Summary You will set and safeguard the creative vision under the leadership of the head of studio for our next game and future slate. You will translate that vision into clear pillars, and lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver a compelling, commercially viable experience. You combine taste and systems thinking with production know-how. You are able to evolve processes, raise the quality bar, and mentor teams of varying experience levels. You have 10+ years in games with 2+ shipped titles (PC/console preferred), including a substantive leadership role on at least one of them. What You’ll Own Vision & Pillars : Define the creative north star for tone, theme and setting and keep every feature aligned to it. Game Direction : Co-own the product strategy with Production—prioritize features, cut ruthlessly, and protect fun. You advocate on behalf of the player. Quality Bar : Establish the design bible; run regular critiques, playtests, and gate reviews. Team Leadership : Manage, mentor, and grow designers, writers, artists, and audio; set goals, feedback loops, and career paths. Player & Market Insight : Blend qualitative playtests with telemetry and market comparisons to steer decisions without losing the studio’s voice. Cultural Authenticity : Work with cultural consultants to represent MENA folklore respectfully and make it accessible to global audiences. External Partners : Guide briefs for outsourcing, trailers, key art, VO, and music; collaborate with publishing/marketing on positioning. Risk & Scope : Identify creative/production risks early; propose mitigation plans and data-informed trade-offs. What Success Looks Like (12–18 months) A greenlit Creative Brief with clear pillars and success metrics. A vertical slice that validates the core loop and art direction against agreed KPIs (e.g., fun score, wishlists, retention in playtests). Required Experience Familiarity with MENA cultures/languages. 10+ years in game development with 2+ shipped titles (at least one on PC/console). Held a leading creative role with hands-on responsibilities on at least one shipped game. Proven track record leading cross-disciplinary teams and small indie environments. Strong command of one or more engines (Unreal or Unity), plus practical literacy in art pipelines, level design, narrative tools, and UX. Demonstrated ability to balance vision with feasibility; you know when to push the vision. Portfolio/reel showing world-building, systems/narrative integration, and shipped quality. Nice to Have Background working with stylized/hand-painted art pipelines. Experience collaborating with publishers and marketing on trailers, beats, and platform showcases. Competencies Vision & Taste • Systems Thinking • Player Empathy • Decisive, Data-informed Judgment • Excellent Written/Verbal Communication • Coaching & Conflict Resolution • Process Design & Change Management. Tools We Use Unity, Jira, Miro, Trello, Google Workspace. How to Apply Send your portfolio/reel, resume, and a one-page Creative Pillars sample (for a stylized, folklore-inspired PC/console game) to Include two brief case studies: A time you cut a beloved feature to protect the vision, and A process change you led that improved quality or predictability.

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CANDIDATE SHOULD BE AVAILABLE IN QATAR
- Minimum 10 years in design experience
- To work to a high creative standard
- To demonstrate a confidence to lead, motivate, and communicate both verbally and written
- To possess leadership, delegation and management skills
- To be technically competent and experienced, appropriate to skill base
- Good working knowledge of Branding and Identity graphics
- Must be able to design in required technical formats to suit presentation and then to carry through to production
- Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, Quark Express / In Design
- Knowledge of CAD
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Excellent business English communication and presentation skills
- Must have Qatar Driving License

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Doha: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Event & Creative Director – Global Luxury Events, Qatar, QAR38k—43k pm

We are looking for an experienced Event & Creative Director to lead the strategy, design, and delivery of a global series of premium events blending sport, luxury, culture, and entertainment.This is a senior leadership role requiring both creative vision and operational expertise.

The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in large-scale international events and festivals, with the ability to create immersive, innovative experiences while managing complex global operations.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead planning, production, and execution of multiple international events
• Develop creative concepts, design and production
• Curate entertainment, live performances, and cultural showcases
• Ensure alignment and quality with internal and external partners
• Drive innovation while respecting cultural sensitivity
• Manage the full event lifecycle across all global locations

What We’re Looking For:

• Extensive experience in high-profile international events or festivals
• Proven creative direction and event design expertise
• Strong leadership and project management skills
• Understanding of cultural and luxury markets
• Flexible for international travel

If you are keen to discuss the details further, please apply today or send your cv to Marlene at COREcruitment dot com

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Event & Creative Director – Global Luxury Events, Qatar, QAR38k—43k pm We are looking for an experienced Event & Creative Director to lead the strategy, design, and delivery of a global series of premium events blending sport, luxury, culture, and entertainment.This is a senior leadership role requiring both creative vision and operational expertise. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in large-scale international events and festivals, with the ability to create immersive, innovative experiences while managing complex global operations. What You’ll Do: Lead planning, production, and execution of multiple international events Develop creative concepts, design and production Curate entertainment, live performances, and cultural showcases Ensure alignment and quality with internal and external partners Drive innovation while respecting cultural sensitivity Manage the full event lifecycle across all global locations What We’re Looking For: Extensive experience in high-profile international events or festivals Proven creative direction and event design expertise Strong leadership and project management skills Understanding of cultural and luxury markets Flexible for international travel If you are keen to discuss the details further, please apply today or send your cv to Marlene at COREcruitment dot com

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Diversified Holding Group
• Location: Doha, Qatar
• Competitive Expatriate Salary Package + Benefits

Our client is a major property real estate development firm, part of a major Saudi conglomerate holding firm, and is about to commence four new residential towers in Qatar. They now seek a Technical / Design Manager who can work with the delivery team to drive consultants and contractors to deliver documentation to a firm schedule. In this role, you will act as the client’s representative to ensure management of the client’s risk and financial returns across a mega 8 tower project that is residential high rise in content.

Reporting to the Project Director and as part of the site delivery team, the responsibilities of this role comprise:

1. Management of the design and submittal process while maintaining the vision of the delivery process, including coordination of the contractors' shop drawings and material submittals.
2. Management of the consultant team to ensure quick turnaround and return to contractors, as well as diligence in their reviews.
3. Establishing and managing all tracking, reporting, and scheduling systems that demonstrate an efficient client team processing of information to prevent delay claims.
4. Coordination of RFI’s and design clarifications to ensure what is constructed aligns technically and aesthetically with the client’s vision.
5. Liaison with Regulatory Authorities to achieve master developer approvals for key submittals.

The attributes we seek include:

1. Degree qualification in architecture plus 10 years proven design experience on building projects, with high rise residential or complex projects being highly desirable. At least 2 years GCC regional experience is required.
2. Solid attention to detail as well as team orientation.
3. Strong leadership abilities with high levels of energy and drive to progress design vision, while being flexible to ensure solutions are achieved.
4. Good breadth of knowledge of many disciplines to ensure a lateral vision to design.
5. Superior communication skills and the ability to maintain a positive work environment is critical to this role.

An excellent tax-free salary, with stable employment, will be offered to attract suitable candidates to these roles. To apply, forward your resume in word format.

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Diversified Holding Group • Location: Doha, Qatar • Competitive Expatriate Salary Package + Benefits Our client is a major property real estate development firm, part of a major Saudi conglomerate holding firm, and is about to commence four new residential towers in Qatar. They now seek a

Technical / Design Manager

who can work with the delivery team to drive consultants and contractors to deliver documentation to a firm schedule. In this role, you will act as the client’s representative to ensure management of the client’s risk and financial returns across a mega 8 tower project that is residential high rise in content. Reporting to the Project Director and as part of the site delivery team, the responsibilities of this role comprise: Management of the design and submittal process while maintaining the vision of the delivery process, including coordination of the contractors' shop drawings and material submittals. Management of the consultant team to ensure quick turnaround and return to contractors, as well as diligence in their reviews. Establishing and managing all tracking, reporting, and scheduling systems that demonstrate an efficient client team processing of information to prevent delay claims. Coordination of RFI’s and design clarifications to ensure what is constructed aligns technically and aesthetically with the client’s vision. Liaison with Regulatory Authorities to achieve master developer approvals for key submittals. The attributes we seek include: Degree qualification in architecture plus 10 years proven design experience on building projects, with high rise residential or complex projects being highly desirable. At least 2 years GCC regional experience is required. Solid attention to detail as well as team orientation. Strong leadership abilities with high levels of energy and drive to progress design vision, while being flexible to ensure solutions are achieved. Good breadth of knowledge of many disciplines to ensure a lateral vision to design. Superior communication skills and the ability to maintain a positive work environment is critical to this role. An excellent tax-free salary, with stable employment, will be offered to attract suitable candidates to these roles. To apply, forward your resume in word format.

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Overview

As a dynamic systems integrator, SMS offers proven solutions in engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. With expertise in modernizing and optimizing legacy infrastructure and systems, ensuring operational efficiency, and designing, implementing, and managing secure environments, SMS supports business and mission goals with proficiency, quality, and integrity.

SMS has been serving the advanced information technology needs of the federal government since 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 45 years. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. For additional information on SMS, visit

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Responsibilities

• Design LAN, CAN, WAN data, voice and video architecture.
• Configure and implement internal, external, and service provider routing protocols including but not limited to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Mult-protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
• Analyze networking metrics and recognize sub-par network performance.
• Develop reports and trend analysis documentation on bandwidth and network security incidents.
• Troubleshoot network intrusion devices specific to the Department of Defense and commercial information assurance tools to ensure proper design and integration.
• Administer advanced Cisco network products such as VoIP and other advanced technologies.
• Serve as an on-shift training representative for both contractors and government personnel to include Cisco Switches and Routers, and hardware troubleshooting disciplines, LAN technologies and OS used on deployed networks.
• Perform analysis for collaboration of network / system needs and participate in planning, designing, upgrading and deployment of enterprise datacenter hardware and software using a project-based timeline.
• Provide General IT Management support.
• Provide General Networking support.
• Provide LAN/WAN Enterprise support.
• Provide general O&M as required.
• Provide documentation/reports support as required.
• Provide meetings/briefings support as required.
• Provide functional training support as required.
• Provide OCONUS deployment/TDY travel support as required.
• Provide CONUS TDY support as required

Qualifications

Qualifications

• B.S. in related field, and 5 or more years’ relevant IT experience (preferred); or 7 or more years’ relevant IT experience.
• Firewall experience
• Knowledge of what constitutes a “threat” to a network.
• Skill in providing feedback to enhance future collection and analysis.
• Must possess experience and demonstrate an understanding with installation of Microsoft Windows Server in Host and Compute Environments, and Windows Server using server images.
• Experience with implementation of storage solutions, high availability, Domain Name Systems (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), network connectivity and remote access solutions, core and distributed network solutions, advance network infrastructure, and maintain and monitor server environments.
• Top Secret clearance required

Certifications

· CCNP

· ITIL Foundation (personnel have up to 60 days to acquire ITIL Foundation certification.

SMS is a dynamic systems integrator established in 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 47 years. Our ability to hire and retain quality people in a rapidly evolving IT market is proven through our employee retention rate averaging over 3 years. At SMS, we place a high value on quality of service, customer satisfaction, and best-of-breed policies and practices, resulting in CMMI Level 3 certification and ISO registrations including 9001:2015, 2000-1:2018, and ISO/IEC 27001:2013. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States.

SMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a senior design manager to play a key role making open source software available to the world. Our Design function ensures the experience of the software and infrastructure we build is true to our intentions, and delivers the tools our community and customers need. The Design Manager makes this possible through leadership within, and beyond, our teams.

As a Senior Design Manager, you bring both experience managing design teams and have expertise in a deeply technical domain. This enables you to coach designers in creating tools for developers and cloud engineers, and cross-context to move towards tangible outcomes and lift the quality of their work. You will manage expectations and ensure deadlines are met in a timely manner against your roadmap. You will be able to communicate clearly and actively listen to product and engineering stakeholders, and your team, to drive sustainable quality improvements and guide individuals towards meaningful growth.

Leading the Infrastructure Design team, you will take responsibility for the products that help to build cloud experiences and software distribution mechanisms, and you will help to evolve the security of how software is packaged and delivered.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region

What the role entails

• Reviewing the work of your design team for quality
• Working with individual designers to support their professional growth
• Continuously improving operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering
• Working with stakeholders, especially the Engineering organization, to clearly define and validate outcomes
• Evolving design systems and guidelines to drive consistent quality and improve efficiency
• Coordinating with the rest of design leadership to mature our collective practice
• Bringing your team and others together to share their work and strengthen culture
• Engaging the open source community to learn and make the value of our work legible
  
  

What we are looking for in you

• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology
• Exceptional educational achievements in design or related behavioral science discipline
• Full lifecycle experience from user needs discovery through validation and implementation guidance
• Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines
• Experience of managing a team that interacts with technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with quantitative optimisation approaches
• A passion for balancing consistency and innovation
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

What we offer you

Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits below, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.

In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process.

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Overview

As a dynamic systems integrator, SMS offers proven solutions in engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. With expertise in modernizing and optimizing legacy infrastructure and systems, ensuring operational efficiency, and designing, implementing, and managing secure environments, SMS supports business and mission goals with proficiency, quality, and integrity. SMS has been serving the advanced information technology needs of the federal government since 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 45 years. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. For additional information on SMS, visit Submit your resume today! Responsibilities

Design LAN, CAN, WAN data, voice and video architecture. Configure and implement internal, external, and service provider routing protocols including but not limited to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Mult-protocol Label Switching (MPLS). Analyze networking metrics and recognize sub-par network performance. Develop reports and trend analysis documentation on bandwidth and network security incidents. Troubleshoot network intrusion devices specific to the Department of Defense and commercial information assurance tools to ensure proper design and integration. Administer advanced Cisco network products such as VoIP and other advanced technologies. Serve as an on-shift training representative for both contractors and government personnel to include Cisco Switches and Routers, and hardware troubleshooting disciplines, LAN technologies and OS used on deployed networks. Perform analysis for collaboration of network / system needs and participate in planning, designing, upgrading and deployment of enterprise datacenter hardware and software using a project-based timeline. Provide General IT Management support. Provide General Networking support. Provide LAN/WAN Enterprise support. Provide general O&M as required. Provide documentation/reports support as required. Provide meetings/briefings support as required. Provide functional training support as required. Provide OCONUS deployment/TDY travel support as required. Provide CONUS TDY support as required Qualifications

Qualifications B.S. in related field, and 5 or more years’ relevant IT experience (preferred); or 7 or more years’ relevant IT experience. Firewall experience Knowledge of what constitutes a “threat” to a network. Skill in providing feedback to enhance future collection and analysis. Must possess experience and demonstrate an understanding with installation of Microsoft Windows Server in Host and Compute Environments, and Windows Server using server images. Experience with implementation of storage solutions, high availability, Domain Name Systems (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), network connectivity and remote access solutions, core and distributed network solutions, advance network infrastructure, and maintain and monitor server environments. Top Secret clearance required Certifications · CCNP · ITIL Foundation (personnel have up to 60 days to acquire ITIL Foundation certification. SMS is a dynamic systems integrator established in 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 47 years. Our ability to hire and retain quality people in a rapidly evolving IT market is proven through our employee retention rate averaging over 3 years. At SMS, we place a high value on quality of service, customer satisfaction, and best-of-breed policies and practices, resulting in CMMI Level 3 certification and ISO registrations including 9001:2015, 2000-1:2018, and ISO/IEC 27001:2013. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. SMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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