Creative Head

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.
• Strong 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.