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 Madhu Purokayastha, 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 multiple 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 work produced by junior designers and editors; give specific, respectful 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.
• Maintain brand consistency while adapting ideas for Instagram, YouTube, websites, and other digital channels.
• 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.
• Help improve Pomelo’s creative standards, references, and ways of working.

Essential experience and craft

• Approximately 4+ years of experience 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 and video-editing experience.
• Hands-on 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.
• Ability to explain your exact contribution to portfolio projects and the thinking behind key decisions.
• Experience mentoring, reviewing, or directing junior creatives.
• 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.

Why join Pomelo

• Work with established brands and experienced agency leadership.
• Take meaningful creative responsibility within an 11-person creative team.
• Guide junior talent while remaining close to the craft.
• Influence the standards and visual culture of a growing agency.
• Build ambitious, effective work with the potential to earn industry recognition.

Location and schedule

This is not a remote role.

• Monday–Friday: on-site, 10:00 AM–7:00 PM
• Saturday: work from home, 10:00 AM–7:00 PM
• Office: Unit No. 26, HARTRON Complex, Electronic City, Phase IV, Udyog Vihar, Sector 18, Gurugram, Haryana 122015

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.

How to apply

Complete this application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoCLs_cMIiFtYIPyZv0A1E4hekw6P5awhhqUEfE9GNy0jRXg/viewform

Please include a portfolio link and identify three projects that best demonstrate concept development, art direction, campaign continuity, motion/video craft, and your personal contribution.

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.