Junior Art Director

Pomelo Digital is a strategy-led creative and digital agency built by experienced agency leaders in their second innings. We bring together strategy, creative, media, technology and execution to build work that changes behaviour and drives growth. Our publicly featured work includes projects for n-SHIELD and Mastercraft by Nippon Paint, Spark Minda, Healthium Medtech, Dr. Morepen, Kenstar, Craftmodus and e-Galleria.

We are hiring a hands-on Junior Art Director to help shape the next standard of creative work at Pomelo. This is a maker-leader role: you will develop and present strong visual ideas, execute important work yourself and guide a small group of 2-3 junior designers or video editors. You will report to our VP and work within an 11-person creative team.

What you will do:

• Translate brand, campaign and content briefs into clear visual concepts and compelling creative work.
• Develop campaign moodboards, visual routes, storyboards and coherent systems that hold across formats.
• Produce hands-on design work for digital campaigns, social, websites, search, mobile, activations, infographics, motion and promotional video.
• Edit video in Premiere Pro and create motion graphics in After Effects when the brief requires it.
• Set the visual direction for junior designers and editors, give specific feedback and maintain quality through delivery.
• Partner with copywriters, strategists, data analysts, technologists and account teams from brief to final production.
• Present and defend creative choices internally and, where required, with clients.
• Use generative-AI image and video tools professionally for exploration and production, then art-direct, composite, correct and finish the output to a credible standard.

Essential experience and craft:

• Approximately 4+ years in a digital, advertising or comparable fast-paced creative agency.
• Experience operating at senior visualizer, creative-lead or comparable level, including guiding junior creatives.
• A strong portfolio showing conceptual campaigns, visual storytelling, typography, grid, composition and colour judgment--not only isolated social posts or UI screens.
• Hands-on proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Hands-on Premiere Pro, video-editing, After Effects and motion-graphics capability.
• Professional experience using Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Runway or comparable generative-AI tools in a real creative workflow.
• Ability to art-direct and manually correct AI-assisted imagery or video rather than accepting raw output.
• Confidence receiving feedback, presenting ideas and balancing craft with deadlines.

Useful, but not required:

• Working knowledge of Figma.
• Experience building shoot moodboards or supervising the creative team on a shoot.
• Familiarity with high-fidelity web mockups, UI/UX principles or HTML/CSS.

Location and schedule:

This is not a remote role. Monday-Friday is on-site, 10:00 AM-7:00 PM. Saturday is work from home, 10:00 AM-7:00 PM. The office is in Udyog Vihar, Gurugram. Please apply only if you can follow this schedule or relocate in time to join.

Compensation:

₹50,000-₹75,000 per month, with flexibility up to ₹1,00,000 for an exceptional candidate whose portfolio and experience strongly match the role.

Pomelo Digital values diverse thinking and a high-trust, high-dignity working environment. We assess candidates on relevant evidence, creative judgment, collaboration and role fit.