Senior Arabic Copywriter

• 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
• 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
• Be a hands-on craft obsessive. Write, refine, rewrite, and elevate
• Bring cultural intelligence. Inject regional insights, behaviours, and tensions into the work
• Tell stories that travel. Shape narratives that work in film, social media, experience, product, and PR
• Think beyond the ad. Collaborate with strategists, technologists, designers and creatives to shape ideas that live as acts, innovations, prototypes, platforms and content ecosystems
• Bring energy that lifts the room. Embrace challenges, pressure, late pivots, and wild briefs as fuel
• 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
• Present with conviction. Clearly articulate thinking and storytelling in internal reviews, client meetings, and pitch rooms
• 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

• 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

Arabic will be a bonus