Creative Designer - Team Lead
Job Summary
Job Description
We are seeking a Creative Design Lead to oversee the visual communication strategy for in-app ad campaigns, marketing collateral, and innovation projects within the Paytm Ads ecosystem. This role involves end-to-end design responsibilities, including stakeholder communication, creative strategy, hands-on design execution, and team management. You will collaborate with business, marketing, and product teams to deliver impactful, performance-oriented creatives. Responsibilities include leading the design development for ad creatives, banners, and videos; translating campaign briefs into strong visual concepts; managing and mentoring junior designers; liaising with stakeholders to align on objectives and timelines; designing marketing collateral such as case studies and social media creatives; and contributing to creative testing and performance optimization.
Must have:
- 4-5 years of creative/visual design experience
- 1-2 years in a lead or managerial role
- Strong portfolio of marketing collateral and digital ads
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro)
- Proficiency in Figma
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Ability to deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines
- Excellent communication and project management skills
Good to have:
- Basic knowledge of motion/animation
- Experience working with external clients or brand teams
- Background in ad-tech, digital marketing, or performance marketing
Perks:
- Ownership of design for a fast-growing ad platform
- Opportunity to work on diverse campaigns
- Leadership role with cross-functional visibility
- Fast-paced, collaborative, and entrepreneurial work environment
- Opportunity to be part of India's largest digital lending story
10 skills required
Job Details
About Us:
Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, Paytm Payments Bank Net banking, Paytm FASTag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now, Pay Later. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.
About the team:
Paytm Ads is Paytm's digital advertising vertical that offers innovative ad solutions to clients across industries It offers advertisers the opportunity to engage with 300Mn+ users who interact with over 200 payment & retail services, online and offline - offered on the Paytm app. Paytm Ads maps the user transactions to their lifestyle choices and creates customized segmentation cohorts for sharp shooting ad campaigns to the most relevant TG.
About the Role:
We’re seeking a Creative Design Lead to own and drive the visual communication strategy for in-app ad campaigns, marketing collaterals, and innovation projects across the Paytm Ads ecosystem.
As the Creative Design Lead, you'll manage end-to-end design responsibilities from stakeholder communication and creative strategy to hands-on design execution and team management. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with business, marketing, and product teams to deliver high-impact, performance-oriented creatives.
Key Responsibilities:
Creative Direction & Execution
Lead the design development for in-app ad creatives, banners, videos, and marketing campaigns.Translate briefs into strong visual concepts aligned with brand and campaign goals.
Team & Stakeholder Management
Manage and mentor a team of junior designers, providing feedback and quality control.Liaise with internal stakeholders, category teams, account managers, and product owners to align on campaign objectives and timelines.
Cross-Platform Visual Communication
Design marketing collaterals including case studies, sales decks, social media creatives, and video assets.Work on campaigns tailored for both merchants and consumers across categories.
Creative Testing & Performance Optimisation
Lead bi-weekly A/B testing of creatives and derive learnings from ad performance metrics like CTR and ecpm.
Process & System Design
Contribute to developing creative guidelines and templates for Paytm’s self-serve ad platform.Streamline design processes and maintain consistency in visual language.
Qualifications:
-4-5 years of experience in creative or visual design, with at least 1–2 years in a lead or managerial role.
-Strong portfolio showcasing marketing collaterals, digital banners, video snippets, and ad creatives.
-Proficiency in tools like: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro) & Figma
-Basic knowledge of motion/animation is a plus.
-Excellent communication and project management skills.-Experience working with external clients or brand teams.
-Preferred: Background in ad-tech, digital marketing, or performance marketing.
What You’ll Gain
-Ownership of the design for a fast-growing ad platform reaching millions.
-Leadership role with visibility across business, marketing, and product functions.
Why join us?
· A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through technology
· Improve the average revenue per use by increasing the cross-sell opportunities
· A solid 360 feedback from your peer teams on your support of their goals
· Respect, that is earned, not demanded from your peers and manager
Compensation: If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!
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