Creative Lead - L8 - Mumbai

Job Description:

Job description: Creative Lead

The Creative lead would partner and lead a team of thinkers and doers; with an ability to bring design and content together seamlessly thus help in rendering meaningful solutions to given business challenges. The lead would be accountable for driving relationships and creative outcomes from global and local stakeholders with an objective to deliver effective local design renditions and campaigns.

Responsibilities:

• Inspiring creativity throughout all design work (print, digital etc.) and ensure that the design team is aware of trends & improvement in both techniques and technology that are relevant to the business and assessing which will contribute to the business and its clients.
• Keen eye for aesthetics and details
• Improve the existing design by giving constructive feedbacks
• Conceive and implement concepts, guidelines and strategies in various creative projects and oversee them to completion
• Collaborate with account executives to obtain knowledge of the clients’ requirements
• Work closely with copywriters to have a good alignment of copy and design
• Accountable for end-to-end orchestration to ensure delivery of artworks from the pertinent stakeholder
• Extracting relevant assets from Library and providing them to internal team for further image correction, renditions etc.
• Driving clear objective of service adoption and best practice guidance at global and local markets
• Manage the graphic requests system and verify the accuracy of the request, and coordinate with scheduling, finishing and designers. Communicate any timely updates or changes with all stakeholders.

• Regularly monitor production program, for possible new requests and communicate to creative leads any potential new, updated or revised design requests.
• Key component of overseeing production; candidate will handle heavy volume, fast turnaround of deliverables for all requests.

• Coordination touchpoint with strategic agencies, as well as with global stakeholders from the client’s end
• Quality control and improvement of design output. Ensure that the quality of work meets the project requirement.
• Maintain communication and cordial relationship between design and other departments within the organization.

Must exercise a high level of discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information

Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant fine arts/design degree
• Minimum 10+ years of experience as a design lead or a similar profile
• Proficiency of Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suit, InDesign, Illustrator, CDR, Premiere Pro After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe experience manager on both PC and Mac platforms

Eligibility Requirements:

• Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV online to be considered
• Must have an experience of handling teams – both design and copy
• Must have an experience in relationship management
• Must have a deep understanding of working across the globe in different platforms and formats.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong interest in motion graphic design, entertainment and technology
• Tech savvy
• Love for great design a plus
• Ability to think on your feet and anticipate issues before they happen
• Must be able to thrive and excel in a fast-paced, heavy volume environment; adapting to quickly changing demands and deadlines while keeping a professional attitude
• Detail-oriented with the ability to interface with all internally and the creative community as well as all levels of global stakeholders