Graphic / Brand Designer · Senior · 10+ yrs

Meghna Raghunathan

Creative Director / Head of Brand Design

Professional summary

Creative director and brand systems architect with 11 years shaping visual identities for consumer and tech brands. Sets creative direction across typography, layout and motion, leads design teams of 8–14, and ties brand work to business outcomes — recall, conversion and revenue. Built brand systems adopted across global markets, ran rebrands tied to multi-crore campaigns, and grows designers into leads.

₹40Cr

Attributed campaign revenue

21%

Lift in brand recall

12

Designers led

Skills

Leadership

Creative directionArt directionTeam building (8–14)Hiring & mentoringStakeholder & C-suite alignment

Brand

Brand strategyVisual identity systemsRebrandingDesign languageBrand governance

Craft

TypographyLayout systemsMotion directionCampaign creativePackaging & print

Tools

Adobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe After EffectsFigmaInDesign

Work experience

Creative Director, Brand · Veridian Consumer Group

Mar 2019Present

Bengaluru

  • Lead a 12-person brand design team and a ₹6 crore annual creative budget across 4 consumer brands serving 18 markets.
  • Directed a flagship rebrand — new identity, typography and motion system — that raised aided brand recall 21% and lifted e-commerce conversion 16%.
  • Built a single brand-system playbook in Figma adopted by 5 in-house teams and 3 agencies, ending fragmented identity work across regions.
  • Set creative direction for launch campaigns generating ₹40 crore in attributed revenue, with social creatives consistently outperforming category benchmarks.
  • Hired 9 designers and grew 3 into art-director and design-lead roles; instituted the critique and brand-governance rituals used company-wide.

Art Director · Mosaic Brand Studio

Jul 2015Feb 2019

Mumbai

  • Led brand identity and campaign work for 20+ clients, scaling the design team from 3 to 9 while keeping a consistent craft bar.
  • Directed packaging and visual-identity systems that won 2 national design awards and helped retain the studio's three largest accounts.

Senior Graphic Designer · Earlier roles — Ogilvy, Wieden+Kennedy India

20132015

India

  • Designed branding, layout and social creatives across FMCG and tech accounts; promoted twice for craft and creative leadership.

Education

B.Des Visual Communication

2013

National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad

Certifications

Brand Strategy & Management

IDEO U · 2021

Motion Design Foundations

School of Motion · 2020

Selected achievements

Directed a flagship rebrand that raised aided brand recall 21% and lifted e-commerce conversion 16%.

Built a Figma brand-system playbook adopted across 5 in-house teams and 3 agencies in 18 markets.

Speaker, Kyoorius Designyatra 2023 — "Brand systems that survive contact with scale."

Jury member, Indian Design Awards; mentors emerging designers through a women-in-design fellowship.

See the work in 3D

Explore Meghna's interactive WebGL portfolio — projects, skills and a way to get in touch.