About the Role

Own creative quality across everything Arthamandapam produces set the creative direction for client campaigns and in-house events, lead the design, video and content teams, and hold accountability for the standard of every deliverable.

Key Responsibilities

- Set and defend the creative direction for every client campaign and internal event.

- Lead, manage and grow the creative team graphic designers, video editors, content writers and social media creators.

- Convert client briefs and business objectives into campaign concepts and clear creative briefs for the team.

- Review all creative output before it reaches the client; hold the quality line.

- Present concepts and campaign thinking to clients and win their confidence.

- Build and maintain creative processes, review cycles, templates and delivery timelines.

- Recruit, assess and develop creative talent; run internal training and critique sessions.

- Own the creative pipeline across concurrent accounts, balancing quality against deadlines.





Required Technical Skills & Mandatory Experience

- 810 years in advertising or digital marketing agencies, with at least 3 years as Creative Head, Creative Director, Art Director or Associate Creative Director.

- Proven experience leading a multi-disciplinary creative team of at least 45 people.

- A portfolio of campaigns personally directed, across several brands and categories.

- Robust conceptual thinking — able to build a campaign idea from a business problem, not just execute layouts.

- Fluent Tamil, with genuine cultural sensibility for Tamil audiences and communication.

- Confident client-facing presentation ability.

Preferred / Good to Have

- Experience across both digital and traditional/print media.

- Writing or copy background alongside visual direction.

- Experience with event branding and on-ground campaigns.

- Familiarity with AI-assisted creative workflows.

📌 Creative Head (Chennai)
🏢 Arthamandapam Advertising
📍 Chennai