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    Creative Director

    Squadra Media · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 29d ago

    Not disclosed5–7 yrsfulltimeSourced fromFoundit

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    About this role

    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 on-site 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.

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    Skills

    creative directionYoutubeInstagramSocial MediaShort-form videoCampaign StrategyAdobe Creative SuiteFigma

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