Creative Lead

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India | Experience: Senior (7-10 years)

About the Company

Athena Executive Search & Consulting is building TheHireHub, an AI-powered talent acquisition platform designed to help companies find, evaluate, and hire the right talent faster and more efficiently. Founded in 2024, the company is focused on revolutionizing hiring through technology and becoming a leading AI-powered hiring platform. Our work sits at the intersection of executive search, staffing and recruiting, product innovation, and practical business impact. We value innovation, excellence, trust, transparency, and customer-centricity in how we build our platform and serve the market. As a growing organization, we offer an environment where exceptional talent can shape the brand, influence how recruitment technology is understood, and contribute directly to the transformation of the hiring industry. We seek people who bring technical and creative excellence, an innovation mindset, customer focus, and a collaborative spirit. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, while promoting fair and unbiased hiring practices through our platform.

About the Role

The Creative Lead will own the creative vision and execution system for TheHireHub and Athena Executive Search & Consulting. Through a clear brand direction, strong campaign standards, and disciplined creative operations, this role will turn complex recruitment technology into compelling stories that customers, candidates, and partners understand. You will shape visual identity, content experiences, campaign assets, and high-impact communications across digital and offline channels. The role partners closely with marketing, product, leadership, and customer-facing teams to connect creative decisions with business priorities. Success means building a distinctive, trusted brand, improving the quality and consistency of every customer touchpoint, and enabling faster campaign delivery without compromising strategic clarity or craft.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the creative direction across brand, campaigns, product marketing, social content, presentations, and sales enablement, ensuring every output strengthens trust and market differentiation.\n- Build the creative operating system, including briefs, workflows, review standards, prioritization, and asset governance, so teams deliver high-quality work consistently and efficiently.\n- Translate product strategy, customer insight, and recruitment-market complexity into clear visual narratives and campaign concepts that improve engagement, understanding, and conversion.\n- Lead internal and external creative partners through precise direction, constructive feedback, and quality control, balancing speed, craft, budget discipline, and business impact.\n- Establish and evolve brand guidelines across visual identity, messaging expression, templates, and digital experiences, creating consistency as the company and platform scale.\n- Partner with product, marketing, sales, and leadership teams to prioritize creative investment, measure outcomes, and ensure work supports growth, adoption, and customer confidence.\n- Mentor designers, writers, and creative contributors, raising capability, accountability, and collaboration while building a high-performance creative culture.

Essential Skills & Technologies

• Strong creative direction and art direction skills across brand systems, integrated campaigns, digital content, presentations, and customer-facing communications, supported by a compelling portfolio.\n- Proven ability to convert complex technology, hiring, and business concepts into simple, differentiated narratives that audiences can understand and act on.\n- Experience building brand guidelines, scalable creative systems, templates, and review processes that improve consistency, speed, and quality across multiple teams.\n- Strong stakeholder leadership, briefing, feedback, and prioritization skills, with the judgment to balance creative ambition against commercial goals, timelines, and available resources.\n- Working proficiency with modern design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, presentation software, digital asset management, and AI-assisted creative workflows.\n- Understanding of campaign performance, customer behavior, and content metrics, with the ability to use insight and experimentation to improve creative effectiveness.\n- Excellent written and verbal communication, enabling clear articulation of creative rationale and productive collaboration with senior leaders, product teams, and external partners.

Additional Plus

• Experience creating brands or campaigns for SaaS, artificial intelligence, recruitment technology, executive search, staffing, or other B2B technology businesses.\n- Familiarity with motion, video, illustration, content production, and emerging generative AI tools that expand creative possibilities while maintaining brand control.\n- Experience hiring, mentoring, or managing creative talent and agencies in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment.

What You'll Bring

• You bring senior-level ownership of creative quality and business relevance, with the confidence to set a clear standard and the discipline to build systems that make excellent work repeatable.\n- You combine strategic thinking with hands-on craft, moving comfortably from positioning and campaign concepts to detailed design direction, review, and final delivery.\n- You simplify complexity without losing meaning, creating work that makes technology approachable, builds customer trust, and gives commercial teams stronger tools to communicate value.\n- You work with curiosity, transparency, and empathy, inviting strong collaboration while making decisive choices when priorities, timelines, or stakeholder perspectives compete.\n- You use evidence as well as instinct, connecting creative decisions to audience response, campaign performance, adoption, and brand health rather than treating aesthetics as the only measure of success.\n- You are energized by building in an evolving company, comfortable with ambiguity, and motivated by the opportunity to shape how the hiring industry experiences a new technology platform.\n- You actively support inclusive and unbiased communication, ensuring creative work represents diverse audiences and reinforces the company’s commitment to fairer hiring practices.

Why Join Us

• Shape the creative identity of an ambitious AI-powered talent acquisition platform at a formative stage, where your decisions will influence how the market understands a new approach to hiring.\n- Work close to leadership, product, marketing, and customer-facing teams, with direct visibility into how creative systems improve trust, adoption, and commercial outcomes.\n- Join a fast-paced growth environment that values innovation, excellence, transparency, customer focus, and collaboration, while giving you meaningful ownership rather than a narrow production remit.\n- Help make hiring more efficient, understandable, diverse, and inclusive by creating experiences and communications that support fairer talent decisions.\n- Build a high-performing creative capability, mentor contributors, and establish standards that can scale with the organization, platform, customers, and ambition.\n- Contribute to a company working at the intersection of executive search, staffing and recruiting, artificial intelligence, and product innovation, with the opportunity to create visible industry impact.\n- Receive competitive compensation and the autonomy to bring thoughtful experimentation, strong craft, and a clear point of view to important business challenges.

What We Offer

• Meaningful ownership of brand and creative strategy within a growing AI-powered hiring platform, with the opportunity to see your work shape customer trust and market presence.\n- Close collaboration with leadership and cross-functional teams, creating broad exposure to product, technology, marketing, and customer outcomes.\n- A fast-paced, inclusive environment grounded in innovation, excellence, trust, transparency, and customer-centricity.\n- Competitive compensation and the opportunity to help build a more efficient and fair future for hiring.