Creative Associate

Role: Creative Associate

Location: Vikhorli , Mumbai (full-time, non-remote)

Team: Brand Love @ Purplle

We’re looking for Creative Associates who can help us turn brand vision into real work, at speed, without losing quality. You’ll work closely with a Brand Love Director to shape briefs, build context, coordinate execution with our specialist design teams, and make sure what

ships still feels like the brand.

If you enjoy making creative work actually happen, reducing chaos, and keeping quality high without slowing the team down, you’ll thrive here.

This role is for someone who can think like a creative, communicate like an operator, and move like production. It is not a pure project management or strategy only role. You won’t just chase timelines and take notes, you’ll build briefs, reference kits, rough layouts, and route decks that make high-quality execution possible.

What You’ll Own

Clarity and momentum for a brand team

You’ll help the Brand Love Director turn intent into execution across packs, PDPs, campaigns, and moments.

Briefs that don’t get misread

You’ll write and structure creative briefs that the craft teams can execute without guessing

or rework.

Context and references that raise the bar

You’ll pull, curate, and organise references that aren’t just “pretty”, but useful and on-brand.

Route storytelling

You’ll build decks and presentations that show routes in real context, not isolated assets.

Quality control before things ship

You’ll help ensure what gets delivered matches what was agreed, and flag drift early.

What you’ll do day to day

Work closely with the Brand Love Director to translate brand direction into actionable briefs

Clarify the objective, the customer, the emotion, the proof, and the constraints

Prepare complete handoffs to our central specialist design teams (Packaging & Artwork, PDP & A+, Online Campaigns)

Build rough layouts and narrative flows when helpful, not pixel-perfect design, but enough structure to guide the team and prevent drift

Pull and organise references with intention

Competitive, cultural, creator, retail, platform, and craft references depending on

the project

Coordinate timelines, reviews, and clarifications

Be the person who prevents “half-briefs” and “late surprises” from becoming the default

Prepare route decks that show the system

PDP plus pack plus tiles plus banners plus shelf, so the story is seen end-to-end

Support the Brand Love Director in moment development

Help build the moment kit: what repeats, what changes, what needs to ship across touchpoints

Help with QA and coherence checks

Flag when hierarchy breaks, when tone drifts, when the system is being quietly compromised

Capture learnings and ensure reuse

Work with our Asset Management team to archive the right masters, modules, and references so we compound learning

Who you’ll work with

Brand Love Director: your primary partner, and the person you help make the brand real

Head of Brand Love: for priorities, operating rhythm, and escalation support

Craft pod Art Directors: Packaging & Artwork, PDP & A+, Online Campaigns

Brand Managers and Business Owners: to align on priorities, constraints, and timelines

External partners: agencies, production, creators, vendors when required

Other internal stakeholders

You’ll be a good fit if

You’re allergic to vague briefs and chaotic feedback loops

You can turn messy inputs into clear creative direction without losing the soul of the work

You have strong taste, even if you’re not an Art Director

You know what good looks like, and you can articulate why in simple language

You can speak “design”

Hierarchy, spacing, contrast, rhythm, restraint. You can look at work and explain what’s working and what isn’t

You’re organised without being bureaucratic

You can run timelines, reviews, and handoffs without turning the job into admin

You have high standards, but you don’t slow the team down

You flag issues early, you propose fixes, you move forward

You’re comfortable working across multiple touchpoints

Packs, PDPs, performance creatives, social formats, retail, moments

You’re calm under pressure

You can handle urgency without letting quality collapse

Experience we’re looking for

3-5 years of experience in a creative operations, brand, content, design, or agency environment

Strong evidence of working on multi-touchpoint brand work, not just one-off creatives

A portfolio or body of work that shows one or more of the following:

decks and route presentations that show creative thinking in context content planning and creative development work brand or campaign work where you played a shaping and execution role strong reference curation and brief writing basic layout ability and a sharp eye for quality

Comfort With Tools Like

Google Docs/Sheets, Chat GPT/Gemini/or other AI tools

Bonus if you can do light design: basic layouts, markups, and quick mock structures

Bonus if you are skillful with any AI Image Gen platforms

How we work

This is a hands-on role inside a Brand Pod, connected to a central system.

We run on systems, not heroics. We’d rather write one great brief and build one reusable kit than reinvent the same work 50 times.

You will be close to real craft. You’ll learn how brands are built across packaging, e-commerce, campaigns and moments, and you’ll work with Art Directors who take quality seriously.

This role rewards people who can create clarity, protect the brand, and ship work that actually lands in the world.