Creative Director | Onsite, Bengaluru

Role: Creative Director

Location: Client location, Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru

Employer: Squadra Media Private Limited

Experience: 5+ years, with social media at the core

Type: Full-time · Onsite · Work from office

Squadra Media is looking for a Creative Director to lead the creative output of a dedicated on-site team for one of our retail and lifestyle clients in Bengaluru. This is a hands-on role: you build the campaign thinking, write the copy, art-direct the design, and direct video and photography.

Social media is the core of this role. We are looking for someone whose experience is genuinely built on social, not a brand or print background with some social attached to it.

Eligibility criteria

These are firm requirements. We are looking for someone who meets all of them, not most of them.

- Experience: Minimum five (5) years of experience with social media at the core of the work. Social media experience is mandatory and is the first thing we will look at.
- Copy and content: Demonstrated ability to write, not only direct. Captions, headlines, scripts and campaign lines must be work you have produced yourself.
- Campaign strategy: Prior experience building and running campaigns end to end, from the thought through to execution and rollout across platforms.
- Creative direction: Proven ability to give creative direction to graphic designers and to a production team covering video editors, photographers and videographers.
- Portfolio: A strong body of published social-first work, campaigns and brand films. A portfolio or reel is mandatory with the application.
- Platform fluency: Current, practical understanding of Instagram, YouTube and short-form video, covering formats,



trends and what actually performs.
- Tools: Working proficiency across Adobe Creative Suite and Figma. You need enough craft to demonstrate an idea, not to execute every asset yourself.
- Client-facing skills: Confident presenting and defending creative work to senior client stakeholders.
- Work arrangement: Willing and able to work full-time from the client location in Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru. This role has no work-from-home option.
- Language: Fluent written and spoken English.

Good to have

- Performance marketing creatives. Experience building creative for paid campaigns, and an understanding of what makes an ad work rather than just look good, is a clear plus.
- Experience with F&B;, retail, lifestyle or D2C brands.
- Motion graphics or animation direction experience.
- Working knowledge of Kannada or Hindi for local content and shoot coordination.
- Experience working in office or embedded within a client team.
- Experience building or mentoring a small creative team.

What you'll do

1 Campaign strategy & creative direction

- Own the creative direction of the account across all platforms, formats and campaigns.
- Build campaign thinking from the brand and business objective, not from a format or a trend.
- Develop campaign thoughts, creative routes and taglines, and take them through to execution.
- Plan seasonal, festive and launch campaigns,



and define how they play out across the calendar.
- Bring proactive ideas to the client rather than only responding to briefs received.

2 Copy & content

- Write all copy for the account, covering captions, headlines, hashtags, CTAs, scripts and campaign lines.
- Define and maintain the brand tone of voice, and hold all written output to it.
- Write scripts, narrative structure and treatments for reels, videos and campaign films.
- Adapt messaging for each platform, format and audience without diluting the idea.

3 Art & production direction

- Art-direct the designer across layout, typography, colour, composition, references and mood.
- Direct video content end to end, covering concept, script, treatment, pacing and edit direction.
- Direct shoots on concept, mood, framing, styling and shot requirements, and supervise execution on set.
- Hold design and production quality, and brand consistency, across every asset that leaves the team.
- Build and maintain templates, design systems and reference libraries for the account.

4 Sign-off & client engagement

- Give the final creative sign-off on every deliverable before it reaches the client.
- Check work against the brief, brand guidelines, platform requirements and factual accuracy.
- Present and defend creative work, concepts and campaign ideas to client stakeholders.
- Interpret client feedback into creative direction, separating subjective preference from genuine deviation from the brief.
- Guide and mentor the on-site creative team, and set the quality standard they work to.

Interested? Apply now with your portfolio/reel. ?

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📌 Creative Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Squadra Media
📍 Bengaluru