GN – Design Lead

The Strategy & Consulting Global Network Song Practice

Job Title - Design Lead + Consultant + The Strategy & Consulting Global Network Song Practice

Management Level: 08

Location: Mumbai

Must have skills:

Static and animated content creation

Good to have skills:

• Basic knowledge of SEO principles, including keyword research and optimization.
• Knowledge of digital ad platforms like Google Ads, Meta Ads, or LinkedIn Ads.
• Familiarity with social media analytics tools to gauge campaign performance.
• Experience interacting with and influencing cross-functional teams
• Continuously explores new practices and patterns for their problem-solving toolkit
• Uses creativity from a wider perspective in terms of re-framing problems and approaches
• Knowledge on functioning of GenAI and Automation based job routes will be good

Job Summary

Lead the creative vision for campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand objectives and target audience needs. Manage and mentor a team of designers and writers, collaborating with cross-functional teams and clients to deliver high-quality creative assets. Oversee multiple projects, stay updated with industry trends, and ensure consistency and innovation in all creative outputs.

Join our team of SONG who solve customer facing challenges at clients spanning sales, service and marketing to accelerate business change.

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Are you passionate about scaling businesses using in-depth frameworks and techniques to solve customer facing challenges? Do you want to design, build and implement strategies to enhance business performance? Does working in an inclusive and collaborative environment spark your interest?

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities within Accenture Strategy & Consulting’s Customer, Sales & Service practice.

The Practice – A Brief Sketch

The Strategy & Consulting Global Network Song practice is aligned to the Global Network Song Practice of Accenture and works with clients across their marketing, sales and services functions. As part of the team, you will work on transformation services driven by key offerings like Living Marketing, Connected Commerce and Next-Generation Customer Care. These services help our clients become living businesses by optimizing their marketing, sales and customer service strategy, thereby driving cost reduction, revenue enhancement, customer satisfaction and impacting front end business metrics in a positive manner.

You will work closely with our clients as consulting professionals who design, build and implement initiatives that can help enhance business performance. As part of these, you will drive the following:

• Creative Leadership: 

• Develop and drive the creative vision for campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand objectives and target audience needs. 

• Lead brainstorming sessions to generate innovative ideas and concepts for marketing, advertising, and branding projects. 

• Oversee all creative deliverables, maintaining the highest quality standards and ensuring consistency with brand guidelines. 

• Guiding creative teams in the creation of creative assets for digital, print, social, and video projects 

• Experience working closely with creative directors and art directors to develop a brand’s visual design identity 

• Working with cross functional teams and leading the delivery. 

• Ability to present and pitch ideas with ease. 

• Team Management: 

• Inspire, mentor, and manage a team of designers, writers, and other creative professionals. 

• Conduct performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and foster professional growth within the team. 

• Promote a collaborative and inclusive culture that encourages innovation and teamwork. 

• Client Collaboration: 

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, understanding their vision and translating it into creative solutions. 

• Present creative concepts and strategies to stakeholders, incorporating feedback while maintaining the integrity of the vision. 

• Build strong client relationships to foster trust and long-term collaboration. 

• Strategic Planning: 

• Collaborate with marketing, product, and strategy teams to align creative direction with overall business objectives. 

• Develop creative strategies that drive engagement, conversions, and brand loyalty across multiple channels. 

• Stay updated with industry trends, competitor strategies, and emerging design technologies to inform creative decisions. 

• Project Management: 

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery within budget and scope. 

• Establish clear timelines, milestones, and resource allocations for creative projects. 

• Troubleshoot challenges and provide solutions to meet project requirements and deadlines. 

• Content Creation: 

• Oversee the design and execution of high-quality visuals, videos, and written content for campaigns, events, and digital platforms. 

• Ensure the seamless integration of storytelling and visual design across all touchpoints. 

• Quality Assurance: 

• Review and approve all creative work, ensuring precision, consistency, and alignment with client expectations. 

• Implement feedback loops to continuously improve creative outputs.

• Innovation and Trends: 

• Stay ahead of design trends, technologies, and best practices to deliver cutting-edge creative solutions. 

• Integrate new tools, methods, and platforms to enhance the team's creative capabilities. 

Bring your best skills forward to excel at the role:

• Adobe Creative Suite - must have Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects experience
• Good to have Indesign and Premier Pro experience
• Well versed in MS office.

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Your experience counts!

• Postgraduate or Graduate in Fine Arts
• Candidate with 8+ years of hands-on experience on static and animated content creation

Must have skills:

Static and animated content creation

Good to have skills:

• Basic knowledge of SEO principles, including keyword research and optimization.
• Knowledge of digital ad platforms like Google Ads, Meta Ads, or LinkedIn Ads.
• Familiarity with social media analytics tools to gauge campaign performance.
• Experience interacting with and influencing cross-functional teams
• Continuously explores new practices and patterns for their problem-solving toolkit
• Uses creativity from a wider perspective in terms of re-framing problems and approaches
• Knowledge on functioning of GenAI and Automation based job routes will be good

What’s in it for you?

• An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients
• Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.
• Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.
• Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities
• Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Accenture Strategy & Consulting:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Capability Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/in-en/careers

Accenture Global Network Song | Accenture in One Word

At the heart of every great change is a great human. If you have ideas, ingenuity and a passion for making a difference, come and be a part of our team.

Experience: Candidate with 8+ years of hands-on experience on static and animated content creation

Educational Qualification: Post Graduate or Graduate in Fine Arts

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