Associate Director Creative Design

Associate Director – Creative Design
Location – Remote, India

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 80 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China.

Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 300,000 individuals across 80+ countries.

Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 1,800 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by prominent investors including Accel, Soft Bank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann

About the Role
If you believe great design can shape brands, influence audiences, and drive business outcomes, you’ll find yourself at home  are looking for a creative leader who can combine strong design thinking with business acumen to build a high-performing creative function for our India & APAC business.

This role is an opportunity to lead the creative design charter end-to-end—setting the vision, building the team and capability, raising creative standards, and ensuring that every campaign and customer touchpoint delivers both creative excellence and measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities
Creative Leadership & Vision
Own the overall creative design vision and strategy for the India & APAC business, aligned with brand, marketing and business objectives.
Set and continuously raise the creative bar across digital campaigns, social media, performance marketing, paid media and other customer-facing touchpoints.
Translate business and marketing objectives into compelling creative strategies, concepts and visual narratives.
Lead creative ideation, concept development and execution across multiple formats and platforms.
Establish creative principles, standards and guidelines to ensure consistency and excellence across all outputs.

Team Leadership & Capability Building
Lead, manage and develop a team of designers and creative professionals, including graphic designers, motion designers, photographers/videographers and other creative talent.
Build a high-performing, collaborative and accountable creative team with clear goals, KRAs and quality standards.
Coach and mentor team members, strengthening their creative capabilities, business understanding and execution skills.

Creative & Campaign Management
Own end-to-end creative delivery for major campaigns, from briefing and ideation through execution and final delivery.
Partner closely with copy, marketing, performance marketing, product, business and other stakeholders to develop integrated campaigns.
Oversee development of layouts, mock-ups, storyboards, digital assets and campaign adaptations across platforms.
Ensure creative work is delivered within agreed timelines while maintaining a high standard of quality.
Establish efficient creative processes, workflows, review mechanisms and SLAs to improve turnaround time and reduce iterations.
Use research, audience insights, competition benchmarking and market trends to inform creative direction.
Ensure creative output is increasingly data-informed and connected to measurable business and marketing outcomes.
Stakeholder & Agency Management.

Skills & Qualifications
12+ years of experience in creative/design roles, preferably across a leading creative agency, consumer internet, digital-first, EdTech or high-growth environment.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Visual Communication, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Animation, Communication Design or a related discipline.
Proven experience leading and managing a team of designers and creative professionals.
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