Head of Design

Subko Specialty Coffee Roasters, Bakehouse and Fine Cacao; Mumbai; Vor Ort; INR 2.500.000 - 4.000.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Mediclaim

Travel allowance

Employee discount available at our Out

Zusammenfassung

Subko Specialty Coffee Roasters, Bakehouse and Fine Cacao is seeking a senior design leader to guide a small design team and elevate our brand across all touchpoints. You will partner with the Brand Head and Creative Director to shape strategy, briefs, and research-driven creative output that resonates culturally and visually.

You will drive a high-performance studio, oversee a fast-moving portfolio, and push the Indic maximalist typography aesthetic across digital and print formats to ensure

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in a senior or lead design role with strong craft.
• Experience managing 3+ direct reports.
• Ability to write and brief design work grounded in research.
• Thrives in high-output, multi-workstream environments.
• Genuine passion for Indic aesthetics, typography, and cultural storytelling.
• Experience creating print assets and packaging.
• Proven track record of delivering creative results.

Aufgaben

• Lead and directly manage a team of 3–4 designers, setting creative standards, mentoring talent, and building a high-performance design culture
• Work as a close creative partner to the Subko Brand Head and Creative Director, contributing to brand strategy and creative direction
• Build strong design briefs and lead design research that anchors creative output in cultural insight and strategic intent
• Execute across a wide and fast-moving portfolio of work maintaining brilliant creative quality within rigorous timelines
• Drive omnichannel digital output across social platforms: long-form, short-form, video, still, and ecommerce formats
• Drive the studio's Indic maximalism and typography-led design aesthetic across all touchpoints

Kenntnisse

Senior design lead

People management

Design briefs & research

High-output environments

Indic aesthetics & typography

Print assets & packaging

Creative performance tracking

Jobbeschreibung

Subko is committed to an ideal: to help reimagine, re-design. and re-invent an unlikely origin-the Indian Subcontinent as a legitimate contributor to the global specialty coffee and craft baking movements.

Only raw materials enter Subko's roastery: all of the coffee and bakehouse products are crafted from scratch, in house. From crop to cup, bean to bar, and farm to table. We aim to provide a detailed, high quality coffee and bake experience to all our guests.

About the role

This position will be reporting to the Head of Brand & Communications and Dotted line reporting to the Creative Director

Path way to Associate Creative Director

• Lead and directly manage a team of 3–4 designers, setting creative standards, mentoring talent, and building a high-performance design culture
• Work as a close creative partner to the Subko Brand Head and Creative Director, contributing to brand strategy and creative direction
• Build strong design briefs and lead design research that anchors creative output in cultural insight and strategic intent
• Execute across a wide and fast-moving portfolio of work maintaining brilliant creative quality within rigorous timelines
• Drive omnichannel digital output across social platforms: long-form, short-form, video, still, and ecommerce formats
• Drive the studio's Indic maximalism and typography-led design aesthetic across all touchpoints

Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience at a senior or lead design level with exceptional craft
• People management experience with 3+ direct reports
• Proven ability to write and build design briefs grounded in research
• Comfort thriving in high-output, multi-workstream environments
• Genuine passion for Indic aesthetics, typography, and cultural storytelling
• Experience with print asset creation and packaging
• Strong track record of creative performance results

Perks of joining our team

You will be part of a company that is growing at an exponential rate, having started just three days before the lockdown in 2020! In just three years, we’ve grown from a team of 20 to over 250. We are a group of young, ambitious individuals who are excited to learn and grow every single day. One thing we can confidently say is you'll love working with us and will have plenty of opportunities to grow in your career.

Apart from that some benefits include

• Mediclaim
• Travel allowance
• Employee discount available at our outlets