Creative Studio Head, Mumbai

Ground Zero; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ground Zero in Mumbai is seeking a Creative Studio Head to lead and own its in-house studio. This is a hands-on leadership role: you set the bar, clear bottlenecks, and ensure high-quality output across all work streams.

With 12–15 years in agencies or design studios, you will build and manage a team of designers and writers, enforce brand guidelines, plan capacity, and own the end-to-end studio workflow to meet tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Agency or design studio background with high-output studio management.
• Proven ability to lead, hire, and develop a design team.
• Experience maintaining brand consistency across outputs.
• Ability to plan studio capacity and manage deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end creative output from brief to delivery.
• Hire, develop, and manage a team of designers and writers.
• Enforce brand guidelines and make independent calls.
• Plan capacity, workload, and flag bottlenecks before deadlines.
• Drive the internal workflow: briefing, reviews, feedback, quality checks.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and timelines proactively.

Skills

Agency background

Strong communication

Creative leadership

Quality focus

Organised reliability

Job description

Role:Creative Studio Head, Mumbai
Experience:12-15 Years
Salary:18-22 LPA
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Our partner organisation is looking for someone to lead and own their in-house creative studio - not just manage it. This is a hands-on leadership role: you set the bar, you clear the bottlenecks, and you make the work good. If you have an agency background and know what it takes to run a high-output studio without losing quality, this might be worth your time.

What you'll own

• End-to-end creative output across all verticals - from brief to final delivery, the studio's work is yours to stand behind.


• A team of designers and content writers. Hiring, developing, and managing them day-to-day falls on you.


• Brand consistency across everything that goes out - you know the guidelines, you enforce them, and you make independent calls when briefs are ambiguous.


• Studio capacity and workload planning - who's doing what, when, and flagging problems before they become missed deadlines.


• The process itself: briefing, review cycles, feedback loops, quality checks. If the workflow is broken, fixing it is part of the job.


• Stakeholder accountability - timelines, dependencies, and expectations managed proactively, not reactively.

What we're looking for

• Agency or design studio background - you understand creative production under pressure and you've managed people through it.


• Strong communicator. You can give a clear brief, take difficult feedback, and explain a creative decision to a non-creative stakeholder without losing the plot.


• Comfortable stepping in as an individual contributor when there's a bottleneck - this isn't a role where you hand off and wait.


• Sharp eye for quality, consistent across verticals.


• Organised and reliable. Deadlines aren't suggestions for you, and your team knows it.

Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is reposted on September 9th, 2026 on Ground Zero

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