About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Graphic Design Lead who combines deep senior-level graphic-design craft with real team leadership. You will lead a team of 3 5 designers, own graphic-design output across 5 6 concurrent projects, and personally set the standard through your own work. This is a hands-on leader role you will still design directly on the most significant work not a pure management seat. You should be genuinely strong across everything a senior graphic designer should know brand systems, marketing and social creative, campaign visuals, decks, print, and digital with real, current fluency in Figma and the modern AI design toolstack. Prior experience in an IT / SaaS / product company matters here: the visual language of technology brands is specific, and we want someone who already speaks it.

Key Responsibilities

- Team Leadership: Lead a team of 3 5 designers set priorities, review work, hold the quality bar, and support their growth.
- Allocate design capacity across 5 6 concurrent projects; balance load and remove blockers.
- Set clear expectations, run reviews, and give useful feedback.
- Grow the team s craft, brand fluency, and speed over time.

Design Craft Standards

- Personally own the most important, most visible design work lead by doing.
- Set and hold the graphic-design quality bar across the team: layout, typography, hierarchy, colour, and craft.
- Own brand consistency across campaigns, social, decks, and marketing surfaces.
- Design brand systems, templates, and reusable assets that scale across the team.

Modern Tools AI Fluency

- Figma: advanced hands-on components, variants, Auto-Layout, plugins, libraries
- AI design tools: current,



working fluency across today s AI toolstack (e.g. Figma AI, Uizard, generative image tools, AI-assisted design workflows)
- Adobe suite: strong working proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator
- Automation templates: build reusable systems and batch workflows so the team produces more, faster
- Keep current: actively track and adopt new AI design tools as they emerge the tooling changes month to month

Cross-Team Collaboration

- Partner with marketing, social, content, and video teams on campaigns and briefs.
- Coordinate with product / UI/UX so brand and product visual language stay aligned.
- Present and defend design decisions clearly to the Marketing / Design Head, cross-functional teams, and the CEO in the final round.
- Represent design well to leadership and to stakeholders across the org.

Required Skills Experience

- Experience: 5+ years of hands-on graphic-design experience
- Team leadership (must-have): prior experience leading a design team real management or team lead, not just informal mentoring
- Full-spectrum graphic design (must-have): genuinely strong across everything a senior graphic designer should know: layout, typography, brand systems, campaigns, social, decks, print, digital
- Figma (must-have): advanced Figma components, variants, Auto-Layout, plugins, libraries
- AI-tools fluency (must-have): current,



hands-on experience with today s AI design tools; used in actual work, not just tried
- IT-company background (must-have): prior experience working in or for a technology / IT / SaaS company
- Multi-project: proven ability to run 5 6 concurrent projects without dropping quality
- Communication: clear, senior communicator; comfortable presenting to and defending decisions with the CEO
- Brand sense: genuine feel for brand nuance, tone, voice, and consistency across surfaces
- Portfolio (mandatory): a strong senior-level portfolio required to clear the preliminary round

Nice to Have

- Motion graphics / simple animation (After Effects, Rive, or Figma prototyping).
- Experience specifically designing for AI / SaaS / technology brands.
- Basic video / editing skills to support the video team.
- Prior experience building a design function from scratch or scaling one.

The Ideal Candidate

- Is a genuinely senior graphic designer the fundamentals and range are sharp.
- Has led a small design team and can point to what they did to raise the team s output.
- Is fluent in Figma and lives in the current AI design toolstack.
- Has worked in or with technology / IT companies and speaks their visual language.
- Communicates clearly with senior stakeholders including the CEO, and takes feedback constructively.
- Has a portfolio that speaks for itself senior-level range and quality.

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📌 Graphic Design Lead (Maharashtra)
🏢 ARCITECH
📍 Maharashtra