Graphic Design Trainee (Emiratisation) – Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group, a partner and creator of luxury experiences across the Middle East for over seven decades, is hiring a Graphic Design Trainee in Dubai as part of an Emiratisation program. This is a structured trainee role within one of the region’s leading luxury retail groups, spanning fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories — giving a trainee designer genuine exposure to how visual design supports luxury brand standards across a wide portfolio.

As a trainee, the role involves supporting the design team on real creative projects — building visual assets for campaigns, in-store materials, or digital content — while learning how design decisions connect to luxury brand guidelines and commercial objectives. Working within a luxury retail environment means design work here is held to a genuinely high visual bar, since every asset needs to reflect the premium positioning of the brands Chalhoub represents.

This suits a UAE National early in a design career, with foundational graphic design skills and a genuine interest in luxury and brand aesthetics, who wants structured, hands-on training within a real commercial design environment. Attention to detail and a strong visual sensibility matter more at this stage than extensive prior professional experience.

In luxury retail, visual design is not a supporting function — it's one of the primary ways a brand's premium positioning actually gets communicated to customers, whether through a campaign visual, in-store material, or digital content. A trainee who contributes genuinely well-crafted, brand-consistent design work supports Chalhoub's ability to represent its luxury maisons at the visual standard those brands and their customers expect, protecting the brand equity that both the maisons and Chalhoub itself have built over decades. Beyond the immediate design output, structured trainee programs like this one also build a longer-term talent pipeline for the region's creative and luxury retail sector — an area where genuinely skilled design talent, particularly with luxury brand sensibility, remains in real demand. For Chalhoub specifically, developing Emirati design talent internally also supports the group's broader talent strategy and its standing as a company genuinely invested in developing regional creative careers, not just consuming existing talent from the market.

This trainee program offers genuinely rare, structured access to luxury brand design work — the kind of exposure to premium visual standards and brand guidelines that's difficult to get outside of an established luxury retail environment like Chalhoub's. Working across a portfolio spanning fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, and art de vivre gives a trainee designer unusually broad category exposure early in a career, rather than specializing narrowly in a single design context from the start. As an Emiratisation program, the role is structured with genuine career development in mind, offering a realistic path toward a full design role within Chalhoub's creative team for trainees who perform well, within one of the region's most respected luxury retail employers. Luxury brand design experience specifically carries real prestige and credibility within the broader creative industry, and building that foundation this early is a strong differentiator for future design roles, whether within Chalhoub or at other luxury or premium brands regionally and beyond. For a UAE National starting a design career, few programs combine this much hands-on creative learning with this much exposure to genuinely high-caliber luxury brand work, at exactly the stage in a career when that kind of exposure most shapes what comes next professionally.

• UAE National (Emiratisation program)
• Foundational graphic design skills, including familiarity with standard design software (Adobe Creative Suite or similar)
• Strong visual sensibility and attention to detail
• Genuine interest in luxury branding and visual design
• Degree or diploma in graphic design, visual communication, or a related creative field (or equivalent portfolio)
• Willingness to learn and take direction within an established creative team