Creative Director

Inc42 Media; Delhi; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Senior compensation

Equity options

Creative team environment

Job summary

Inc42 Media is seeking a Creative Director in Delhi to lead and direct the company's design identity and visual assets, contributing significantly to the startup economy of India.

Ideal candidates have 8-12 years of experience, exceptional project management, and creativity. Responsibilities include overseeing marketing design projects, managing a team, and ensuring brand consistency across various mediums. Competitive compensation and meaningful ESOPs offered.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience as Art Director/Senior Designer.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating graphic design skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct editorial/marketing design projects.
• Oversee the Inc42 design identity and system.
• Manage a team of designers and freelancers.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Creativity

Project Management

Aesthetics

Tools

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

Inc42 is looking for a Creative Director who enjoys working in a fast paced environment and loves the challenge of discovering what makes consumers “click”.

As a Creative Director, you will be responsible for leading and directing editorial/marketing graphic and visual design, copy, video, animation, infographic, social media material, photography and promotional assets.

Our ideal candidate is a passionate & experienced B2C/Content/Media designer with proven success as a creative and communicative multitasker with exceptional project and time management skills. If you are someone who follows the philosophy of “ The devil is in the detail”, you must apply.

What You’ll Own

• The Inc42 design identity and system: One coherent visual language (type, colour, layout, motion, the look of “the authority”) applied across journalism, Datalabs reports, social, the website, decks, and every IP’s identity.
• Flagship campaign and IP creative: Hands‑on art direction on the brand film, brand campaigns, and the marquee IPs (AI Summit, D2C & Retail Summit, D2C Retreat, FAST42 and more).
• Physical and experiential design: The on‑ground expression of the brand – stage, set, spatial branding, signage, and the look‑and‑feel of our summits and events.
• The motion‑brand language: Brand motion standards and templates that the video team and designers build within.
• The design team and bench: A team of designers today, plus a freelance/studio bench you brief and direct.
• The craft bar: You’re the sign‑off on how Inc42 looks, everywhere.

Who You Are

• A multi‑disciplinary Creative/Design Director: you move fluently across brand identity, editorial/graphic, digital, motion, and crucially physical/experiential design. You’re not a single‑discipline specialist.
• Systems‑first, not comp‑first: you’ve built a brand identity that scales across dozens of surfaces and stays coherent, not just a beautiful hero deck.
• You’ve designed for the real world: you’ve shaped physical experiences or events, not only screens. (This is the rare requirement.)
• A player‑coach: hands‑on on the flagship work, directing the team and freelancers for the rest. You can both make it and lead it.
• Taste and delivery: art direction that’s genuinely strong AND ships at brand‑at‑scale, on a real calendar.
• AI‑fluent in the design workflow: you use modern (incl. generative) tools as part of how you work, not as a novelty.
• A creative peer, not a service desk: you bring the ideas and own the creative and the craft; you partner with marketing on strategy and video on production. Strong point of view, zero turf wars.

What You’ll Need

• Proven working experience of 8‑12 years as Art Director/Senior Designer building & managing a team of creatives/designers.
• Skilled communicator with excellent leadership, interpersonal, relationship management skills and keen eye for aesthetics, layout and color combination.
• Solid experience with logo design, typography, color, web layout design, print production, image selection and package design.
• Proficient use of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator or other visual design and wire‑framing tools.
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio.
• High on creativity and should have the ability to delegate responsibilities & execute team projects within the set timeline.
• Ability to deliver constructive feedback on projects to the creative team.
• Intuitive critical thinker with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking in and out of the box, generating new design solutions and ideas.

What We Offer

• Ownership of Inc42’s entire visual identity across digital and physical at a brand that’s becoming the cultural authority of India’s startup economy.
• A direct line to the Co‑Founder & CMO, and partnership with the Heads of Marketing and Video.
• A design team to lead and a freelance/studio budget to extend it.
• The canvas of a back‑to‑back IP calendar – your work on stages, in reports, and across millions of feeds.
• Senior compensation, plus meaningful ESOPs.
• Delhi‑based, in‑person.

How To Apply

Apply to our careers page with:

• Your portfolio – we want to see at least one identity‑system project (how it scales) and one physical/experiential project.
• A short note (200 words) on how you’d approach building one coherent design identity for Inc42 across a report, a social feed, and a summit stage.
• Your CV.