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AI Creative Lead

PhonePe
Karnataka, IND
Full-time
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Brand storytellingVisual design and art directionCopy executionCreative strategyBrand governance and safetyGenerative AI tools
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Company context

PhonePe operates a digital payments app and businesses spanning financial products, hyperlocal e-commerce, and a localized Android app store in India.

The role supports PhonePe's marketing organization and brand across consumer technology and financial products.

Creative vision and strategy

  • Define and maintain visual and narrative standards across marketing charters.
  • Establish editorial oversight, brand safety, and visual quality guidelines.
  • Translate financial and consumer technology products into emotionally compelling brand campaigns.
  • Present creative strategies, campaign concepts, and brand performance updates to executive leadership.

Creative enablement and tooling

  • Evaluate modern creative software and generative tools to improve workflows for writers, editors, and designers.
  • Establish human-in-the-loop review systems for technology-assisted and AI-generated outputs.
  • Build central design systems, brand guidelines, and creative asset libraries for collaboration across more than 100 marketers.

Team leadership and mentorship

  • Lead, mentor, and grow visual designers, copywriters, and creative strategists.
  • Foster a culture of craft excellence, creative experimentation, and strategic discipline.
  • Design career frameworks and skill-building programs that help traditional creatives adapt to modern digital tools.

Campaign execution

  • Oversee brand launches, high-stakes campaigns, and performance marketing assets without compromising quality.
  • Partner with performance marketing leads to test visual variations and use performance data to refine creative concepts.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Brand teams to protect brand integrity and meet timelines.

Core competencies

  • Demonstrate exceptional judgment in design, copy, storytelling, brand nuance, and craft quality.
  • Evaluate creative technology through a human-enablement lens and maintain rigorous editorial standards.
  • Articulate creative strategy to senior leadership in terms of business impact, brand equity, and emotional connection.
  • Mentor designers, writers, and animators while building a collaborative culture.
  • Understand Indian consumer behavior and identify cultural shifts that can inform brand campaigns.

Required skills and experience

  • Deep experience in brand storytelling, visual design, art direction, and copy execution across digital, visual, social, and video channels.
  • Strong portfolio showing typography, color theory, emotional narrative, visual hierarchy, and attention to detail.
  • Hands-on experience with creative suites and generative AI tools such as Photoshop AI tools, Midjourney, Figma, and language models.
  • Experience building human-assisted creative pipelines, asset templates, production workflows, and quality review systems.
  • 8–12 or more years in creative leadership, brand strategy, or advertising, including 2–3 years leading teams of five or more.
  • Experience in fintech, e-commerce, or high-growth consumer technology is highly preferred.

Full-time employee benefits

  • Benefits listed for full-time employees include insurance, wellness support, parental support, mobility assistance, retirement benefits, and other financial or education programs.

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