About Skadoosh Skadoosh is a creative-first agency working across hospitality, alcobev and real estate. Our roster includes ZLB23 (India's #1 bar two years running), The Leela Palace Bengaluru and Chennai, Conrad Bangalore, Sheraton Grand Bangalore, Hyatt Place and Hyatt Centric properties, Woodburn's Whisky, Pomori Gin, Segredo Rum, Russian Standard Vodka, Chambal Gin and Daku Rum.

Real estate is where we're building next - deliberately, with retainers and briefs that reward creative ambition rather than reacting to a moving calendar.

Role Overview

We're hiring a Creative Head to run creative across the agency's roster, not one account. You'd set the creative bar client by client, build and manage the team producing the work, and be the person clients trust to push back when a brief or request would make the work worse. Real estate is the growth focus right now, so a meaningful part of this role is helping shape what "good" looks like in a category we're only beginning to build a body of work in.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Direction

Set and hold the creative bar across every account - hospitality, alcobev, real estate - not just your own portfolio.

Push back on briefs, client requests or internal pressure when they'd produce weaker work, and make the case for the better version.

Shape Skadoosh's real estate creative point of view as the category becomes a bigger share of the business.

Team Leadership

Manage and develop a creative team - the day-to-day producing the work, not just your own output.

Tighten quality control before work reaches clients: build the review habits and standards that catch problems earlier.

Mentor and grow creative talent so the team's ceiling rises, not just the work you personally touch.





Client & New Business

Present and defend creative work directly to clients, including at the senior levels our hospitality, alcobev and real estate clients operate at.

Join new business pitches, like our current pitch for Suntech's Altavia project, as the creative voice in the room.

Build enough trust with clients that you can hold your ground on creative judgment, not just execute what's asked.

Craft & Category Knowledge

Maintain and evolve Skadoosh's creative standards and processes across categories.

Stay closely involved in hospitality and alcobev work while building out real estate as a craft area for the agency.

Bring category judgment that helps define what "good" looks like as the work evolves, not just deliver against a brief.

What We're Looking For A portfolio you're proud to walk someone through - ideally with work in hospitality, alcobev or real estate, or a clear ability to pick up a new category fast.

Real experience managing a creative team, not just producing your own work.

Comfortable presenting to clients and holding your ground on creative judgment.

Agency-side experience strongly preferred - you should already know how agency timelines, client politics and production constraints actually work.

Why Skadoosh

You'd be running creative for a roster most creative leads spend a career trying to get near, with the authority to actually say no to work that isn't good enough - not just produce whatever's asked. Real estate is the one bet the agency is making out loud this year, so you'd help define what "positive" looks like in a category we're still building out, rather than inheriting rules someone else already set.

Skills: creative direction,team management,client servicing

📌 Creative Head (Mumbai)
🏢 Skadoosh
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