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The ideal candidate will have experience working on premium automotive brands, with exposure to brand launches being a strong advantage.\nJob Description:\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead the copy and conceptual direction for automotive campaigns across brand, product, digital, social, and integrated platforms.\nDevelop compelling campaign ideas, creative platforms, brand narratives, taglines, scripts, digital content, and social-first communication.\nBring a strong understanding of the automotive category, its consumers, culture, and competitive landscape.\nTranslate product features, technology, performance, and brand propositions into engaging, emotionally resonant communication.\nConceptualize and execute brand launches and integrated campaigns, from the initial idea through to final execution.\nDrive creative thinking for social media, influencer campaigns, digital content, and real-time communication.\nCollaborate closely with art directors, designers, strategists, filmmakers, social teams, and account teams to build cohesive creative work.\nMentor and guide junior and mid-level copywriters, raising the overall quality of creative output.\nPresent and sell creative ideas confidently to internal stakeholders and clients.\nMaintain a high creative bar across multiple projects while working within timelines and business requirements.\nStay closely connected to automotive culture, emerging trends, digital behaviour, popular culture, and evolving forms of storytelling.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nStrong experience in a leading creative agency environment, preferably with significant automotive exposure.\nA portfolio that demonstrates excellent writing craft, conceptual depth, originality, and versatility.\nPrior experience working with premium automotive brands is highly preferred.\nExperience with automotive brand launches will be a strong advantage.\nStrong understanding of social and digital-first communication, including influencer-led campaigns.\nAbility to move beyond executional copy and develop big, ownable creative ideas and campaign platforms.\nStrong presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to articulate the thinking behind creative work.\nProven ability to lead creative teams and collaborate effectively across disciplines.\nGenuine passion for cars, automotive culture, and great advertising.\nThe Ideal Candidate\nThe ideal candidate is someone who:\nCan write a killer line but is equally comfortable thinking at the campaign/platform level.\nUnderstands that automotive communication is about more than features and specifications - it is about desire, aspiration, performance, lifestyle, and culture.\nHas a distinctive creative point of view and isn't afraid to challenge conventional category communication.\nCan balance craft and conceptual thinking.\nUnderstands how an idea needs to evolve across TVC, digital, social, influencer, experiential, and emerging platforms.\nIs equally comfortable developing a big launch campaign or a sharp, culturally relevant social idea.\nHas the maturity to lead teams, mentor writers, and raise the creative bar.\nPreferred Automotive Experience\nCandidates with relevant experience at agencies/creative teams working on brands such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Mahindra, Škoda, Royal Enfield, BYD, or other premium/leading automotive brands will be particularly relevant.\nRelevant agency backgrounds.\nA strong automotive portfolio will be given priority.\n\nWhat We Value\nGreat ideas. 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