Company Description

Dentsu AMP is a content-focused creative agency and integrated production house, built to deliver high-impact, culture-led storytelling for brands in the digital and social ecosystem. Part of the dentsu India network, AMP brings together strategy, creativity, and on-ground execution under one roof, enabling faster, sharper, and more relevant content solutions.

With a strong pulse on pop culture, digital trends, and real-time content creation, the agency thrives at the intersection of creativity and production. Headquartered in Mumbai, Dentsu AMP operates as a high-energy, hands-on environment that values craft, cultural awareness, physical well-being, and disciplined work ethics, making it a space for ambitious creative talent to grow and do meaningful, visible work.

Associate Creative Director – Art

About the Role

We’re looking for a creatively fearless, design-obsessed and AI-savvy Associate Creative Director – Art who can think big, design brilliantly and lead from the front.

Someone with exceptional graphic design skills, a sharp creative eye, a knack for emerging technologies and the energy to turn ambitious ideas into extraordinary visual experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Direction: Conceptualise and execute standout campaigns, key visuals, brand identities and compelling visual narratives across digital, social, print, OOH and film.

Hands-on Design Excellence: Demonstrate mastery of typography, layouts, composition, colour theory, image manipulation, retouching and advanced graphic design.

AI-Powered Creativity: Leverage generative AI for image creation, AI-assisted graphic design, visual storytelling, video generation, animation, motion graphics, image enhancement, compositing, style exploration and rapid creative prototyping.

AI Innovation: Experiment with prompt engineering,



AI workflows, reference-based generation, image-to-image, text-to-image, text-to-video and image-to-video techniques to push creative boundaries.

Creative Leadership: Lead, mentor and inspire a team of designers and art directors, providing clear creative direction, constructive feedback and quality control.

Campaign Ownership: Drive creative projects from initial ideation, mood boards and storyboards through production and final execution.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with copywriters, strategists, production teams and senior leadership to develop integrated, culturally relevant campaigns.

Client Communication: Confidently present creative concepts, articulate design rationale, pitch ideas and manage senior client conversations.

Trendspotting: Stay ahead of evolving design trends, visual culture, AI breakthroughs, emerging creative technologies and social-first content formats.

Skills & Competencies

Design Mastery: Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, with strong working knowledge of After Effects and Figma.

AI Tools & Creative Tech: Hands-on experience with tools such as Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Runway, Google Gemini, ChatGPT, FLUX, Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, Kling, Pika and other emerging AI creative platforms.

Conceptual Thinking: Exceptional visualisation skills, original creative thinking and the ability to translate business briefs into striking design solutions.





Team Leadership: Proven experience managing, mentoring and developing creative teams while remaining actively involved in hands-on design.

Communication & Presentation: Exceptionally articulate, persuasive and confident, with strong storytelling, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.

Personality & Mindset: Energetic, upbeat, enthusiastic, quick-thinking, curious, resourceful and creatively adventurous. Someone who brings fresh ideas, positive energy and a strong sense of ownership.

Adaptability: Comfortable experimenting, learning new tools quickly, solving creative challenges and thriving in a fast-paced agency setting.

Qualifications

7–10 years of experience in graphic design, visual communication or art direction, preferably with leading advertising, digital or creative agencies.

Demonstrated experience leading designers or art directors and independently owning high-impact creative campaigns.

Strong understanding of branding, integrated advertising, social-first design and visual storytelling.

Proven ability to combine exceptional traditional design craftsmanship with innovative AI-driven creative execution.

- An outstanding portfolio showcasing conceptual campaigns, sophisticated graphic design, art direction and AI-powered creative work is mandatory.

Who Will Thrive Here?

Someone who’s a brilliant designer, confident communicator, inspiring team leader and an unapologetic creative-tech enthusiast.

We want someone who doesn’t just follow trends but experiments with what’s next, brings infectious creative energy to the room and knows how to turn a wild idea into exceptional work.

Work Mode: Work From Office

Location: Andheri East, Mumbai

Working days: Monday - Friday

📌 Associate Creative Director - Art (Mumbai)
🏢 Dentsu Amp
📍 Mumbai