Head - Graphic Designer

Gurues Outdoors India Private Limited; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Gurues Outdoors India Private Limited is seeking a Head Graphic Designer to lead the design function and establish a strong, consistent visual identity for the company. You will develop creative strategies, manage the team, and ensure high-quality output across digital, print, social media, campaigns, and websites.

The ideal candidate combines design expertise with leadership, strategic thinking, business understanding, and the ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts, Multimedia, or related field.
• 7–12 years of graphic design experience.
• 2–4 years of experience leading a design team.
• Strong portfolio showcasing branding, digital campaigns, and leadership.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Solid understanding of typography, color theory, composition, and visual storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the graphic design team.
• Define the creative vision and design standards for the organization.
• Allocate projects and manage workloads.
• Review, guide, and approve design work before delivery.
• Mentor designers and support professional development.
• Build an efficient and collaborative creative culture.
• Develop and maintain brand guidelines and visual identity.
• Translate business objectives into effective visual communication.
• Oversee designs across digital, print, marketing, and product requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Branding

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Graphic Design or related field

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe After Effects

Premiere Pro

Figma

Canva

PowerPoint/Slides

UI/UX knowledge

Job description

We are looking for a highly creative and experienced Head Graphic Designer to lead our design function and establish a strong, consistent, and recognizable visual identity for the company.

The role will involve developing creative strategies, managing the design team, overseeing brand communication, and ensuring high-quality design output across digital, print, social media, marketing campaigns, presentations, websites, products, and other business requirements.

The ideal candidate should combine strong design expertise with leadership, strategic thinking, business understanding, and the ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the graphic design team.
• Define the creative vision and design standards for the organization.
• Allocate projects and manage workloads across the design team.
• Review, guide, and approve design work before final delivery.
• Mentor designers and support their professional development.
• Build an efficient and collaborative creative culture.

Brand Management

• Develop and maintain the company’s visual identity and brand guidelines.
• Ensure consistency in colors, typography, imagery, layouts, and overall brand communication.
• Create design systems, templates, and brand assets for internal and external use.
• Protect brand quality across all communication channels.
• Recommend improvements to the company’s visual identity when required.

Creative Development

• Conceptualize and execute creative ideas for marketing campaigns, product launches, events, social media, websites, and internal communication.
• Develop creative concepts, mood boards, storyboards, layouts, and visual directions.
• Translate business and marketing objectives into effective visual communication.
• Create designs that are attractive, clear, commercially effective, and aligned with the target audience.
• Work closely with the marketing, product, sales, HR, and leadership teams.

Digital and Marketing Design

• Oversee designs for social media posts, advertisements, email campaigns, websites, landing pages, blogs, presentations, brochures, and marketing collateral.
• Support performance marketing teams with campaign creatives and variations.
• Design banners, digital ads, infographics, illustrations, thumbnails, and promotional materials.
• Ensure designs are optimized for different platforms, screen sizes, and formats.
• Work with content writers, video editors, developers, and marketing managers to deliver integrated campaigns.

Print and Offline Materials

• Oversee the design of brochures, standees, posters, flyers, business stationery, packaging, event materials, and corporate presentations.
• Coordinate with printers, vendors, and production partners.
• Check artwork, dimensions, resolution, color formats, and print specifications before production.
• Ensure accuracy and quality of final printed materials.

Project and Workflow Management

• Establish timelines, review processes, and approval workflows.
• Track project progress and ensure timely delivery.
• Identify potential delays and communicate them to stakeholders.
• Maintain an organized library of design files, templates, brand assets, and source files.
• Establish naming, version-control, and file-management standards.

Quality Control

• Review all creative output for design quality, accuracy, consistency, and alignment with brand guidelines.
• Check spelling, grammar, dimensions, image quality, colors, and technical specifications.
• Ensure that final designs meet the requirements of the intended platform or medium.
• Reduce rework through proper briefing and review processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Fine Arts, Multimedia, or a related field.
• 7–12 years of relevant graphic design experience.
• At least 2–4 years of experience managing or leading a design team.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating branding, digital campaigns, marketing collateral, and creative leadership.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of design principles, typography, color theory, composition, and visual storytelling.

Technical Skills

Proficiency in the following tools is preferred:

• Adobe Illustrator.
• Adobe After Effects or Premiere Pro.
• Figma.
• Canva, where required for scalable business templates.
• Presentation design tools such as PowerPoint or Google Slides.
• Good understanding of UI/UX principles.
• Advance knowledge of motion graphics and video editing is must.
• Good Knowledge of AI-assisted design tools is must.