Creative Lead, Ad Design Services - Gurugram

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company   · As a Creative Lead in the Ad Design Services team based in our Gurgaon office, you'll play a vital role in guiding and elevating the creative output of Taboola's Ad Design Services team. · Th ...

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Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company  

As a Creative Lead in the Ad Design Services team based in our Gurgaon office, you'll play a vital role in guiding and elevating the creative output of Taboola's Ad Design Services team.
This is a hands-on creative leadership role, focused on defining visual direction, applying creative best practices, and ensuring high-quality ad delivery.

You'll act as the creative authority for incoming requests: shaping direction, guiding designers through execution, and reviewing ads before delivery to ensure they meet both creative and business goals.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• 4+ years of experience in a creative leadership role.
• Strong understanding of digital advertising creatives, including static and motion formats
• Proven ability to set visual direction and guide others in execution
• Excellent eye for design, layout, hierarchy, and visual storytelling
• Experience reviewing, refining, and approving creatives in fast-paced environments
• Strong communication skills with the ability to give clear, constructive feedback
• Ability to understand business needs and marketing objectives and translate them into creative guidance
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)
• Major Plus if hands-on graphic design experience (static and/or motion)
• Ability to jump into files, sketch ideas, or demonstrate execution approaches when needed

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (PS, AI, AE)
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools for creative ideation, image creation, or motion exploration
• Background in performance marketing, native advertising, or growth-focused creative teams

How you'll make an impact:

As a Creative Lead, you'll bring value by:

• Own the creative direction and visual quality of ad assets produced by the Ad Design Services team
• Review incoming creative requests from Account Managers (AMs), identify missing context, and request additional information when needed
• Define clear visual direction, creative angles, and execution guidance for each task or campaign
• Guide graphic and motion designers throughout the creative process with clear, actionable feedback
• Ensure all creatives follow creative best practices, platform guidelines, and performance-driven principles
• Review and approve ads before delivery to ensure quality, clarity, and consistency
• Help translate business objectives and campaign goals into strong, effective visual solutions
• Contribute to building and maintaining creative standards, visual frameworks, and best-practice guidelines
• Collaborate closely with AMs, strategists, and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth creative workflows

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they'll tell you that they've been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They'll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; "You can copy anything from another business but you can't copy a company's culture.
• Well-being: Enjoy a range of locally relevant benefits and workplace perks.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.-

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola's powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola's technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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