Creative Lead at Aarki

<h2>Who Are We?</h2> <p>RZR is an AI-native advertising platform built for the next era of performance marketing. We operate at the intersection of machine learning, programmatic media, and full-funnel mobile growth, powering campaigns for some of the world's most ambitious advertisers. Our platform is purpose-built to deliver outcomes at scale, not just impressions.</p> <p>We are a team of builders, operators, and technologists who believe the advertising industry is overdue for a fundamental rethink. We move fast, operate with a high degree of ownership, and hold ourselves to an exceptionally high standard of craft.</p> <p>RZR is scaling aggressively with an active M&amp;A pipeline and a platform vision that puts us on a path to becoming an industry leader. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at an inflection point and help shape what it becomes.</p> <hr> <h2>Role Overview</h2> <p>The Creative Lead for Production owns quality and pipeline health for a pod of designers delivering creative across Video, Banner, Native, Interstitial, and Playable formats. You are the QA gate — every asset passes through your sign-off before it ships.</p> <p>You sit at the seam between Creative Strategy and Production: translating briefs into executable direction, maintaining the team's output velocity, and protecting quality even at peak volume (20–30 tickets per day). This is not a pure management role. You are expected to stay hands-on — personally concepting, storyboarding, and executing — while leading, coaching, and developing your direct reports.</p> <p>The right person sets the creative bar rather than enforcing someone else's, and finds the balance between forward output and quality control without dropping either.</p> <hr> <h2>Key Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Own production quality standards across all formats and enforce the QA matrix — every asset passes your sign-off before shipping</li> <li>Direct creative execution across channels and set the bar for what "done" looks like</li> <li>Manage the QA pipeline end to end: review and approve RZR Studio submissions, flag revisions, track resolution at 20–30 tickets per day at peak, with first-review turnaround under 2 hours</li> <li>Triage and allocate bandwidth across your pod, flag bottlenecks before they become backlogs, and deliver a daily pulse on pipeline health</li> <li>Coordinate with the Creative Strategy Lead on brief-to-execution alignment, escalating collated feedback when strategic creative revisions run heavy on first pass</li> <li>Drive production workflow and tooling improvements, owning the team's iteration velocity and output volume targets</li> <li>Maintain and update the Playbook and RZR Studio Templates on every new account launch, with same-day turnaround</li> <li>Run 1:1s and development check-ins with all direct reports; report pod output metrics to the Director of Creative Services</li> </ul> <h2>Required Skills and Experience</h2> <h3>Must-Have</h3> <ul> <li>7+ years in creative production, motion or graphic design, or multimedia design within digital, gaming, or adtech</li> <li>Hands-on fluency across the Adobe Suite — Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects — at a level where you can personally concept, storyboard, and execute, not just review</li> <li>Proven QA and production management experience: owning sign-off standards, SLA turnaround, and quality bars across multiple formats including Video, Banner, Native, Interstitial, and/or Playable</li> <li>Experience managing production pipelines at volume (20+ tickets per day equivalent) without quality slipping</li> <li>Track record of personally shipping strong concept work — storyboards, key art, or campaign creative — not just directing others' output</li> <li>Familiarity with platform-specific creative specs and constraints across DSP, Meta, TikTok, and ASO</li> <li>Experience managing and developing a team of designers (3+ direct reports), coaching on craft not just workflow</li> <li>Comfortable translating strategic briefs into clear, executable production direction</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication — able to give craft feedback that lands and escalate risk clearly</li> </ul> <h3>Nice-to-Have</h3> <ul> <li>Prior experience in adtech, programmatic advertising, or mobile advertising creative</li> <li>Familiarity with AI-assisted production tooling and a clear view on where human craft judgment must stay in the loop</li> <li>Experience working across international or distributed creative teams</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Work Setup</h2> <p>This is a hybrid role based in Bangalore, India, requiring regular onsite attendance for collaboration, reviews, and team activities. This is not a fully remote position. Creative team members may occasionally be required to work onsite more frequently depending on project demands.</p> <h2>Why Join RZR?</h2> <ul> <li><strong>You set the creative bar, not just enforce someone else's</strong> — this is a high-impact production leadership role with genuine ownership over quality standards across the pod</li> <li><strong>Hands-on craft alongside people leadership</strong> — this is not a pure management track. You will stay in the work, personally concepting and executing alongside directing your team</li> <li><strong>Direct visibility to Creative Leadership</strong> — pod output and quality reporting flows directly to the Director of Creative Services, with clear line of sight to your impact</li> <li><strong>Established team and systems to optimize, not build from scratch</strong> — you are inheriting a functioning pod with defined workflows, tooling, and playbooks, with room to elevate them</li> <li><strong>Clear progression path</strong> — strong performance in this role leads toward cross-pod production standards and the Creative Director track</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>RZR Behaviors</h2> <p>RZR operates by eight core behaviors: Extreme Ownership · Move Fast · Drive for Excellence · Proactive Communication · Courage · Curiosity · Deliver Results · Manage Ambiguity</p>