Careers
We’re a multi-craft studio with one goal: being there for every creative need, every day. By bringing human craft and AI into every delivery, we prove that creativity and intelligence make the best problem solvers.
Senior Art Director
Grapes Worldwide is an AI-powered creative and media agency. We blend strategy, creativity and data to help brands break boundaries and reach new heights, across creative, tech, SEO and media, from the first spark of an idea to full-scale execution. Anyone can dabble with tools. Geniuses connect them into a unified ecosystem, and get an unfair amount of work done. That’s the studio we’re building.
About the role
As our Senior Art Director, you’ll set the visual direction for the brands we work with, from positioning and identity to films, campaigns, social and web. You’ll lead ideas from the first brief to the final frame, working alongside Strategy, Content, Tech, SEO and Media so the work looks sharp and performs.
You’ll shape the creative thinking, guide designers and motion artists, and use AI to explore faster, push further and finish better. At Grapes, craft and AI work together, and you’ll be the one who decides what great looks like.
This is a senior role for someone who leads and still makes. You’ll own the creative bar, present to clients, and work hands-on with the team.
This is a full-time, hybrid role based at our Gurugram studio.
What you will do
- Own the creative direction. Turn briefs and brand strategy into clear visual territories, big ideas and design systems. Know why an idea works, and say so.
- Lead campaigns end to end. Take concepts across films, social, digital, OOH and e-commerce, so every format feels like one idea.
- Build and evolve brand worlds. Shape identity, packaging, key visuals and tone of voice for new and existing clients, and keep them consistent as they scale.
- Direct AI-led production. Brief, prompt and art-direct AI tools and agents for imagery, motion and film. Set the standards, curate the output, and make it look like it was never generated.
- Guide and grow the team. Mentor designers, motion artists and visualisers, give sharp and kind feedback, and raise the quality of everything that leaves the studio.
- Present and pitch. Take clients through the thinking, defend the work with clarity, and bring new business pitches to life.
- Work across disciplines. Partner with Strategy, Content, Social, SEO, Tech and Media so creative is built with performance in mind, not handed over after the fact.
- Raise the bar on process. Build reusable systems, templates and workflows that help the studio move faster without losing craft.
Skills & experience
- Taste. A high creative bar and a clear point of view. You can tell what will earn attention, explain why, and keep refining until it does.
- A strong portfolio. 6+ years in advertising, branding or design, with work across identity, campaigns and digital, and ideas that travelled across formats.
- Concept to craft. You can switch the idea, design the frame and direct the finish. Strong in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and motion fundamentals.
- AI fluency as craft. Hands-on with tools such as Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Veo, Kling, Claude or ChatGPT, with workflows you’ve built and improved. You treat AI as a system to direct, not a button to press.
- Leadership. Experience leading creative teams, reviewing work and giving feedback that makes people better.
- Brand thinking. You understand positioning, audience and category, and design to solve a business problem, not just to look good.
- Storytelling. You can pitch an idea so clearly that a client says yes in the room.
- Cross-functional collaboration. You work easily with strategists, writers, developers, media and SEO teams.
- Bias to action. You’d rather make it, show it and sharpen it than wait for a perfect brief.
About you
You care about the work more than the credit. You can hold a point of view in a room, stay kind to the team, and still sweat the last five percent of the craft.
Why you will love it here
We hire smart people and look after them well!
- 📈Equity for everyone. Competitive base salary aligned on long-term impact.
- 🏢A place to do your best work, wherever you are. Person-first collaboration. Our Gurugram team runs that way, you’ve got what you need.
- 🤝Built in connection. Join at Grapes, bond over small wins, big milestones, and cultural moments.
- 📚Learn and thrive. Flexible L&D and wellness budget. $3000 L&D allowance, or up to $1000 on wellness.
- 🌴Time to recharge. Four weeks of accrued leave, plus bonus Kit Kat days sprinkled throughout the year.
- 🌍Four weeks from anywhere. Up to four weeks working from anywhere in the world. Split it up or use it all at once.
- 🍼Generous parental leave. We offer 20 weeks for primary caregivers and leave for secondary caregivers, plus return-to-work support.
- 🎉Four weeks at four years. Four years is a long time. Take an additional four weeks off to reset and recharge.
- 🩺Stellar benefits. Comprehensive health, dental, vision, 401(k), and more through Sequoia.
At Grapes, we’re building a studio where every person feels valued and can show up as themselves. Great ideas come from different perspectives, so we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
On AI: We expect candidates to already be using AI in their day-to-day work. We look for people who are thoughtful and pragmatic about it: knowing when to use it, how to direct it, and how to make the work better, faster and more original.