Design Associate

1stdecember; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 893,000 - 1,786,000; Full time

Job summary

1stdecember designer sought to craft treatments and pitch decks that win client engagements. You will translate casting, locations, wardrobe, art, and shot plans into cohesive client decks while building mood boards and key frames using references and AI tools. You will also design supers and end cards per brand guidelines for online use.

Join a hybrid setup, collaborate on First December Films decks, social posts and case studies, and help elevate the visual language across our productions.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showing strong design taste.
• Proficiency in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote and AI image tools.

Responsibilities

• Create directors' treatments: layout, references, typography and pace.
• Turn casting, locations, wardrobe, art and shot plans into one deck for the client meeting.
• Find references and build mood boards and key frames with AI image tools.
• Design supers, end cards and title cards to brand guidelines for online use.
• Assist with First December Films decks, social posts and case studies.

Skills

Tasteful portfolio

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

Keynote

AI image tools

Tools

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

Keynote

Job description

• Every pitch and every film needs design: the treatment, the PPM deck, the mood boards, the supers
• Today that work is shared by people who also have other jobs

THE JOB IN ONE LINE

• You design what a film needs before and around the shoot, and you make our directors' ideas look as good on paper as they will on screen

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Treatments and pitch decks

• Build directors' treatments that win the job: layout, references, typography and pace
• Turn casting, locations, wardrobe, art and shot plans into one clear deck for the client meeting

Mood boards and frames

• Find and make references, and build key frames with AI image tools where it helps

Supers and end cards

• Design supers, end cards and title cards to the brand's guidelines, ready for online

Our own brand

• Help with the First December Films decks, social posts and case studies

HOW WE WORK

• Chase the last 5%. We only hire people who pursue excellence. Most work stops at good enough. The last 5%, the detail nobody asked for, is where our films are made
• Move first. Start before you feel ready. A rough version today beats a perfect one next week
• Lead with the answer. Be clear, give the context, then say what you need
• Update before anyone asks. "Done", "doing it by [date]" or "stuck, here's my suggestion" are all fine. Silence never is
• Plan for the obstacle. If X goes wrong, then Y, decided in advance
• Show the number, not the story. Results over effort
• Raise the hard thing early. Flag the risk on the day you see it

THIS ROLE IS FOR YOU IF YOU

• Have taste and a portfolio that shows it
• Work in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, and use AI image tools well

THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF YOU

• Need a fixed brief to start
• Miss the font licence or the logo version
• Mind a deck being rebuilt after a director's note

HOW WE'LL MEASURE YOU

• Decks delivered when promised
• Treatments that help win the job

WHAT YOU GET

• A hot seat. We're setting up our processes right now, so your work shapes how they turn out
• A real view of how a production company runs, from brief to delivery
• You learn from the best in our system, and you help build it
• A house with more than 150 international creative awards, Cannes Lions among them

THE DETAILS

• Freelance. Paid per project or on a monthly retainer, agreed in writing before you start
• Hybrid: in the office around pitches and PPMs