Current Vacancies

Job Code: 

Program Manager - 0867

Division:

Visionary Embassy Design

Location:

Dubai, UAE

Travel Involved:

20-30%

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Senior, 6-10 years of experience

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.
Program Managers are responsible for the overall business management of projects from development through production.  Internally, Program Managers play the dual role of client advocate and VE-team advocate.  Publicly, we are ambassadors to VE, our processes and our beliefs.  Our goals are numerous.  We must ensure high quality work is delivered on time and on budget, create a supportive and efficient production environment and maintain and build on client relationships before, during, and after projects.  Program Managers must also be the internal voice of reason that ensures profitable and healthy projects for VE. Program Managers are the balance between VE’s business and creative goals.

Essential Functional duties (most important parts of job):
Program Managers manage large projects from inception through completion and support the Executive Program Managers in the running of the Program Manager’s Group.  Program Managers are primarily responsible for managing client expectations and to ensure delivery meets expectations.  Responsibilities include working with Account Executives to manage smooth project start. Program Managers also negotiate contracts, coordinate design and technology staff activities, represent clients internally, maintain job review sites, create and manage budgets and schedules, hire contractors as needed and maintain team morale. Program Managers will negotiate with discipline leads for resource planning and allocation to projects.  Program Managers are also responsible for budget control and cost analysis (using SAP) on their project and communicating such details to the Executive Program Managers, and Executive Project Sponsors. All issues impacting deliverables, schedules, and budget should be maintained with thorough documentation. Proactively communicating schedule slips and scope change is imperative.  In addition to these tasks, Program Managers are expected to make a contribution in the defining and refining of Program Managers Group tasks and processes. Program Managers are expected to manage large-scale, multi-location, and cross-discipline projects. 
Qualifications:

• 5+ years project management experience
• Experience from a client service organization
• Excellent understanding of brand, project and account management
• Strong professional/academic credential including business background
• Strong understanding of Project Accounting
• Experience with Business Software and Analysis Tools (SAP or other ERP system a plus)
• Experience and knowledge of design and design process

Job Code: 

Senior Design Analyst - 5519

Division:

Visionary Embassy Design

Location:

Dubai, UAE

Travel Involved:

Not Specified

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Senior, 6-10 years of experience

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.
Senior Design Analysts lead product research, strategy, information architecture development, and interaction design to create products that bring a smile to the lips and a flutter to the heart; regardless of whether it’s a corporate Website, software application, or consumer electronics device. Senior Design Analysts are able to discover, understand, and communicate the business requirements of our clients, the emotional desires of their customers, and the context in which these two come together.
Responsibilities:

• Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, information architecture design, interaction design, and usability testing.
• Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery.
• Produce user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications.
• Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Manage the design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
• Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, project management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers.

Requirements:

• At least five years of user interface design experience.
• Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to Web-based applications and consumer electronics.
• Strong project and people management skills. Must be able to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as PhotoShop, Illustrator, Visio, and Dreamweaver.
• Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and CSS.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction or a related design or behavioral science discipline.
• A passion for creating products that resonate emotionally with people.

Job Code: 

Associate Creative Director - 5516

Division:

Visionary Embassy Design

Location:

Geneva, Switzerland

Travel Involved:

Not Specified

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Senior, 6-10 years of experience

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.
Associate Creative Directors oversee the daily activities of a team of designers assigned to multiple projects and cultivate an environment of sustained creativity and professional growth. Associate Creative Directors will assist the Creative Directors on design direction, team effectiveness, and client relationships. They are also expected to play an active, hands-on role in key projects.
Creative

• Provide daily management of the quality and tenor of the office and the digital team’s creative work.
• Assist the CDs in the definition and guide the team in the direction, style, and methodology.
• Collect feedback and best-case examples from the team and collaborate with the CDs to drive the potential creative futures of both your team and the broader VE design consultancy.
• Make yourself a ‘timely expert’ towards the creative needs of our key clients in order to provide necessary creative insights and project oversight.

Client

• Work with project leaders to ensure they are reading, interpreting, and reacting appropriately to the strategic, logistic, and creative needs of the client.
• Participate in the creative role of new business pitches, proposal development, and project initiation.
• Take a creative leadership role in at least one top-tier client.

Team

• Oversee the creative output of your team.
• Monitor and drive an ideal balance in the available skills and personality of the team towards the needs of our customers.
• Monitor and drive the team to utilize the best and latest methods and tools to be competitive.
• Help develop the culture and mindset of the team to ensure they are healthy, happy, inventive, curious, and open.
• Mentor the careers of your direct reports.

 Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day operations of the digital design team, including setting priorities, assigning resources, and ensuring project goals are achieved
• Oversee simultaneous projects from inception to completion, reviewing project plans, designs, and deliverables
• Identify and implement process improvements to meet project and team needs
• Mentor digital designers and help them set and achieve satisfying career goals
• Establish performance objectives, write performance reviews, and make compensation recommendations
• Participate in recruiting and hiring digital designers
• Promote a culture of innovation and teamwork
• Establish and nurture good client working relationships
• Participate in new business development activities

Requirements:

• At least two years experience managing a digital design team
• At least seven years professional digital design experience
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Proven ability to mentor and develop skills in junior digital designers
• Strong knowledge of design process and project management
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively in small and large groups at all levels of a client organization.
• Ability to negotiate and coordinate with multiple groups and disciplines
• Bachelors degree in a design-related discipline

Job Code: 

Senior Strategist - 5514

Division:

Visionary Embassy I.T.

Location:

Geneva, Switzerland

Travel Involved:

Not Specified

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Senior, 6-10 years of experience

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.
A Senior Strategist is responsible for leading strategy engagements with VE clients.  You will work most heavily during the initial stage of engagements, helping clients identify new opportunities for growth, market expansion or finding competitive edge. Strategy problems are often broad and poorly defined so the Senior Strategist’s role is to bring shape to problems by triangulating on them from different angles and perspectives.
For this role in Geneva we are particularly looking for a candidate with strong technology experience in the areas of wireless communications, portable media, digital entertainment, and consumer electronic devices.  In addition an understanding of online and e-commerce business models and exposure to enabling software platforms and architectures would be highly beneficial.
The Senior Strategist will work closely with our large digital media group, which is responsible for information architecture, understanding user needs, developing wireframes, and working with the digital designers. The strategist will complement these efforts with a strong business and strategic perspective.
Daily Activities
The Senior Strategist works with and guides multi-disciplinary teams of strategists, industrial designers, engineers and digital designers providing a business perspective that will guide effort to the areas of greatest commercial value. Must be adaptable to fast-changing situations, and be quick-on-feet to answer tough questions from clients, responding with confidence and diplomacy to provide guidance, recommendations, and challenge clients’ assumptions. As the point-person on providing the early project vision, it is critical to project success that the Senior Strategist make clients feel comfortable, trusting and engaged in the process. 
The Senior Strategist must be comfortable working in a collaborative environment, but be pro-active and independent in running their aspect of projects, and in making critical decisions when information may be partial or conflicting.
The Senior Strategist will report to the Vice President of Strategy.
Skills
Outstanding verbal, writing and presentation skills. Must be comfortable presenting to C- and VP-level executives in both pitching new projects and deliverable presentation capacities. Should possess strong strategic insight, customer empathy and ability to analysis and distill complex business problems.  Must be skilled at Powerpoint. Experience with illustration tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio/OmniGraffle, would be a plus.

Qualifications
The goal of VE strategy is to provide integrated insight into new opportunities. To that end, a Senior Strategist must be comfortable in all of the following realms:

• Understanding People - uncovering user needs, perceiving and responding to the dynamics of the client’s team, etc.
• Understanding Business – providing a commercial perspective across new business models and markets to help our clients find opportunities for profitable growth
• Understanding Technology – knowledgeable and curious about new technologies, and being able to see and apply them from fresh and user-oriented perspectives

 Past experience and education should include:

• 7-10 years of experience in business strategy (consulting or inhouse), marketing or design, or a combination of these. Proven track record of helping clients identify and deliver on growth opportunities and bringing products or services to market
• MA or MBA preferred, Bachelors related to any of the above three areas satisfactory
• Experience with business case development and quantitative research methods (surveys, focus groups, quant analysis) preferred
• Experience participating in (if not running) ethnographic and other qualitative research methods also favored.

Job Code: 

Front Desk Administrator - 5502

Division:

Visionary Embassy Admin

Location:

Dubai, UAE

Travel Involved:

Not Specified

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Mid-Career, 2-4 years of experience

Education:

Associates Degree or Equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.

Description:

The Front Desk Administrator should have the ability to keep offices running in good order and provide a pleasant work environment for employees.  Your abilities should include multi-tasking, self-management using your excellent organizational skills, and successful prioritizing when everything is urgent.  This position requires that you must have accurate and timely accountability for required tasks.  You have to be fluent in English and German, experienced with Internet use and Microsoft Office.

Your responsibilities (most important part of the job):

• Answering incoming calls
• Travel arrangements for the office
• Assist staff with travel reports
• Oversee security of the office
• Generally manage and oversee office needs
• Ordering office material
• Schedule appointments
• Take care of visitors, make meeting arrangements
• Internal and external correspondence in English and German
• Assist organizing special events in the office
• Daily mail
• Courier services
• Archiving
• Translations

Qualifications:

• Excellent PC or Mac skills (excel; filemaker; word processing and database management)
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced group
• Ability to prioritize
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills

Job Code: 

Senior Financial Analyst - 5500

Division:

Visionary Embassy Finance

Location:

Geneva, Switzerland

Travel Involved:

Not Specified

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Experienced, 4-6 years of experience

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.

Essential Functional Duties:

We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to complete a close-knit team of five financial professionals. He/she will help to ensure the accuracy of our accounting activities and effective financial operation of our company. Primary duties include:

• Assisting the Controller to create accounting procedures and internal control documentation.
• Implementing appropriate accounting procedures to coordinate transactions and reporting requirements.
• Responsibility for general ledger and assisting with various month-end closing procedures and monthly account reconciliation preparation.
• Managing client billings and collections for certain US regions
• Providing reporting tools to business managers and helping them understand the financial processes and requirements.
• Assisting with quarterly and annual financial and tax audits.
• Various external reporting requirements as well as special projects.

Qualifications:

• BA degree in Accounting
• 3+ years accounting experience
• Knowledge of SAP preferred, but not required
• Thorough understanding of GAAP and financial statement presentation
• Proficiency in MS Word and Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills

Job Code: 

Creative Director - 3650

Division:

Visionary Embassy Design

Location:

Dubai, UAE

Travel Involved:

30-40%

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Management, Mgr/Dir of Staff

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.
The Creative Director’s role is to establish and maintain the highest quality design generated by the Brand Design staff and outside consultants.  They will coordinate and manage multiple projects from all stages of development: from concept to final art.  This leadership role requires articulating strong visions for design team values and strategies as well as overall project direction to the brand team.

Essential Functional duties (most important parts of job) includes such activities as:

• Team leadership
• Project ideation
• Art direction
• Coordination of overall creative process
• Design advocacy ( to clients )
• Resource and personnel management
• Hands-on design
• Client management

This person will mentor, guide, and provide support for members of the brand team, and be an advocate for needs of the brand team to the other groups. On individual projects, the Creative Director will integrate clients’ business requirements into brand strategies, marketing, and aesthetic interests. The Creative Director will develop design parameters for all projects, develop design briefings, lead development of new business, and develop and build department capabilities.
Qualifications:

• BFA or BA in related field
• 5+ years of design experience
• 3+ years managerial experience
• Working knowledge of basic desktop applications:  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress
• Working knowledge of motion graphics

Job Code: 

Business Development Manager - 3484

Division:

Visionary Embassy Marketing

Location:

Dubai, UAE

Travel Involved:

Not Specified

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Senior, 6-10 years of experience

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent 

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career.
Business Development Manager is an intensely customer focused role. Responsible for developing business relationships and realizing revenue opportunities for Visionary Embassy, Business Development Manager must possess a keen understanding of business strategy, brand strategy, product marketing, and the role of innovation in today’s business climate. Additionally, any candidate for the position must have demonstrated skills in strategic selling of sophisticated professional services and be able to apply those skills in an informal agency setting.
Revenue generation is the primary goal of the position, while also taking responsibility to control business development costs. Professional customer engagement in all business aspects is critical.
The Business Development Manager must have a complete and thorough understanding of VE’s service offering, and must be able formulate winning value propositions to VE clients. The ability to understand, and discuss a wide range of business challenges and business strategies, while formulating innovative and creative program solutions, is a must. Credible and persuasive engagement at all levels of a client organization across a wide range of industries is a must, including CxO level engagement.  
The position is responsible for bringing in new clients through networking, referrals, and continuing client relationships. A Business Development Manager remains strongly involved with his/her clients through the entire project, builds strong personal relationships with key client executives and may be involved in any project at an operational level to ensure the successful completion of any client engagement.

Essential Functional duties (most important parts of job):

• Professional services sales engagement
• Ability to generate winning business level proposals based on thorough analysis of prospects individual situation
• Ability to work in and manage a sales engagement team
• Ability to develop lasting client relationships

Qualifications:

• Accredited 5-year University Degree (MBA preferred)
• 3+ Years of successful Business Development or Professional Services Sales leadership
• 3+ Years working in a business consulting environment
• Ability to develop compelling written and presented proposals
• Language skills German and English a must and another European Language a plus
• Local ties and business familiarity with geographic area
• Experience in a creative consultancy or brand consultancy a big plus

Job Code: 

Senior Administrator - 3534

Division:

Visionary Embassy Admin

Location:

Dubai, UAE

Travel Involved:

Not Specified

Job Type:

Fulltime-Regular

Job Level: 

Experienced, 4-6 years of experience

Education:

High school diploma or equivalent 

Position Summary:

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll empower you to do the best work of your career. 
The Senior Administrator assists the office manager with office facilitation and daily operations.   A pleasant demeanor with the willingness to work with staff members and to help implement new processes when necessary.  This position requires that you must have accurate and timely accountability for required tasks.

• Serve as the primary contact and provide day to day support for Office Manager
• Coordinate schedules and make necessary arrangements for meetings and conference calls
• Maintain calendars (including appointments and reminders), records, files, binders and databases
• Processes requisition forms
• Maintain extensive communication with senior level management
• Maintains and manages office supply inventory
• Answer and screen heavy phone calls.
• Assist with copying, filing, typing, sorting incoming mail, and all other administrative duties
• Resourceful, meticulous and ability to maintain confidentiality are critical.
• Ability to coordinate with management, employees, and vendors with high professionalism.
• Prepare and submit expense reports and track reimbursements
• Maintains  relationships with at all levels of the company and with external vendors
• Work independently and with minimal or remote supervision
• Well-developed customer service skills and organization skills
• Prepare and assist with office snack time
• Light office and kitchen maintenance

Qualifications:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience (preferred)
• 2-4 years experience
• Excellent PC or Mac skills (excel; word processing and database management)
• Must be highly organized, efficient, and self-directing in a multi-tasking environment
• Manage and  handle multiple projects simultaneously with strict attention to detail
• Relevant and recent work experience in similar positions a plus
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills
• Initiative to go beyond expectations

Able to perform other admin/facilities duties as assigned.