Inc42 Media
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Inc42 is India’s #1 startup media & intelligence platform that informs, educates and empowers startup & business leaders through its incisive reporting, insightful reports, curated Events & Conferences & communities, and industry-leading executive courses & programs.
Since launching in January 2015 and having risen to become the authoritative voice on India’s startup economy, we've moved markets, gotten the early scoop on billions of dollars of transactions, and told you what's happening deep inside some of the fastest-growing startups & industries alike. Our stories have been followed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, and other major outlets hundreds of times. We also track over 10,000+ startups and provide market research and intelligence through our in-depth research reports, and we organise some of the most sought-after conferences and Events for startup & business leaders across India.
The Inc42 Impact
- Inc42 stories reach over 50 Mn+ people monthly
- Published more than 55,000 stories
- Successfully conducted 125+ events
- Launched 100+ research reports
- Receives 500+ startup applications monthly
- Worked with 350+ brands
Griffin is a private, invitation-only club that unites India’s top tech founders through curated experiences, strategic learning, and peer-driven growth. Designed for India’s unicorn and soonicorn founders — building at scale, Griffin offers a trusted space where founders don’t just network—they forge deep, meaningful relationships, share unfiltered insights, and collaborate to shape India’s next chapter of innovation.
From intimate salons and high-trust retreats to access to capital and exclusive opportunities, Griffin offers a curated path to clarity, collaboration, and personal growth. More than a community, it’s the inner circle powering the next wave of industry-shaping leaders.
Job Overview
At Griffin, design is not decoration. It is how the institution expresses taste, trust, discretion and ambition.
As Graphic Designer, Griffin Club, you will be responsible for shaping the visual language of one of India’s most exclusive founder circles. You will work closely with the Griffin leadership team to create design assets for member communication, private events, founder experiences, strategic decks, invitations, gifting, digital properties and institutional storytelling.
This is a role for someone who understands that Griffin should never look loud, mass-market or promotional. Every visual touchpoint must feel premium, considered and founder-worthy.
You will not just make creatives. You will help build the visual identity of a private institution for India’s most consequential founders.
Your Impact In This Role
Shape Griffin’s Visual Identity: Build and maintain a premium, consistent and recognisable design language for Griffin across all touchpoints.
Design For India’s Top Founders: Create assets that are seen by unicorn founders, policymakers, investors, institutional leaders and global business figures.
Elevate Every Griffin Experience: Ensure every invite, deck, menu card, agenda, signage, gifting insert, event creative and post-event asset feels intentional and high-quality.
Bring Order To Brand Assets: Create templates, systems and design guidelines so Griffin’s visual output becomes faster, cleaner and more consistent over time.
Experiment With AI-Led Design Tools: Use AI tools where relevant to improve speed, ideation, moodboarding, image treatment and visual exploration.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Build And Maintain Griffin’s Design System
- Create and maintain Griffin’s visual design system across digital and physical assets.
- Develop reusable templates for invites, decks, event agendas, speaker cards, WhatsApp creatives, member profiles, newsletters and internal documents.
- Ensure consistency in typography, colours, spacing, image treatment, visual hierarchy and premium brand language.
- Build a clean archive of design files, brand assets, templates, logos, fonts, image banks and final exports.
- Protect Griffin’s design quality so that no asset feels rushed, cluttered or generic.
2. Design For Griffin Events And Experiences
- Create design assets for Griffin Salons, Retreats, Privé gatherings, delegations, dinners, IPO Dialogue, founder roundtables and special access moments.
- Design event invites, save-the-dates, agenda cards, speaker cards, room branding, table cards, menu cards, backdrops, signage and post-event creatives.
- Work with the team to understand the mood, audience and purpose of each Griffin format before designing.
- Ensure every event asset feels aligned with the room — private, premium, discreet and high-trust.
- Coordinate with vendors, printers and production partners to ensure correct formats, sizes and final outputs.
3. Create Founder And Member-Facing Assets
- Design member welcome assets, onboarding materials, profile cards and special milestone creatives.
- Create high-quality visuals for founder introductions, member achievements, IPO moments, fundraises, launches and other key member milestones.
- Support the team in creating visually polished communication for WhatsApp groups, emailers and member-facing updates.
- Ensure all member-facing assets feel personal, elegant and respectful.
4. Support Strategic Decks And Institutional Documents
- Design and polish Griffin decks, partnership decks, membership notes, government notes, event proposals, sponsor decks and internal strategy documents.
- Convert rough content into clean, structured and visually sharp presentations.
- Work closely with the leadership team to translate complex ideas into simple and premium visual storytelling.
- Maintain a repository of approved slides, design modules and visual templates for repeat use.
5. Support Brand, Content And Digital Assets
- Create digital creatives for Griffin’s website, social communication, post-event storytelling and founder-safe public narratives.
- Design visual assets for event recaps, photo stories, quote cards, announcements and institutional storytelling.
- Work with photographers, videographers and content teams to select, crop, retouch and package visuals.
- Ensure Griffin’s public-facing design remains aspirational but restrained.
6. Own Design Execution Discipline
- Maintain timelines for all design requests.
- Understand briefs clearly before starting work.
- Ask the right questions on audience, format, tone, size, usage and deadline.
- Share design options with clarity and rationale.
- Keep all final files properly named, organised and accessible.
- Ensure print-ready and digital-ready formats are delivered correctly.
- Coordinate with the team for feedback, approvals and final sign-off.
What Sets You Apart?
- Premium Design Sensibility: You understand restraint, whitespace, typography, hierarchy and taste.
- Detail Orientation: You notice alignment, spacing, image quality, file formats and finishing.
- Founder-First Thinking: You understand that the audience is not generic. These are high-context, high-expectation founders.
- Speed With Quality: You can move fast without making things look careless.
- Structured Execution: You can create repeatable templates and systems, not just one-off designs.
- Visual Storytelling: You can convert an idea, event or founder profile into a sharp visual narrative.
- Ownership Mindset: You take responsibility for the final output, not just the design file.
- High Taste, Low Noise: You know how to make something feel premium without making it loud.
- Curiosity For AI Tools: You are open to using AI tools to moodboard, ideate, enhance images, create variations and improve design efficiency.
Professional Traits
- 2–3 years of experience in graphic design, visual communication, brand design, event design, editorial design or premium brand design.
- Strong command over Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
- Strong working knowledge of Figma, Canva or similar collaborative design tools.
- Ability to design both digital and print assets.
- Good understanding of typography, layout, composition, colour and visual hierarchy.
- Experience designing decks, invites, event collaterals, social creatives and brand assets.
- Ability to work with tight timelines and multiple stakeholders.
- Strong file hygiene and ability to maintain organised design repositories.
- Ability to take feedback maturely and improve output quickly.
- Good written communication and ability to understand premium brand tone.
- Bonus: Experience working with luxury brands, premium events, founder communities, media companies, design studios or hospitality brands.
- Bonus: Working knowledge of AI design tools such as Midjourney, ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Runway, DALL·E, Canva AI or similar tools.
What Good Looks Like
Success in this role means:
- Griffin has a consistent and premium visual language.
- Every major Griffin event has high-quality design assets ready on time.
- Founder-facing communication looks polished, intentional and discreet.
- Decks and documents feel sharp, structured and senior.
- Templates reduce repeated design effort.
- Design files are organised and easy for the team to access.
- The team trusts you to convert rough ideas into refined visual outputs.
- Griffin’s design starts feeling like that of a serious private institution, not an event brand.
Who This Role Is For
- This role is ideal for someone who wants to build design for a premium, high-trust founder institution from the ground up.
- You should enjoy working on:
- Private member experiences
- High-quality event identities
- Founder-facing communication
- Premium decks and documents
- Minimal, elegant design systems
- Tasteful brand storytelling
- Fast-moving but high-standard execution
- You should be comfortable with ambiguity, feedback and iteration.
- At Griffin, design will often begin with a rough idea, a WhatsApp note or a strategic conversation. Your job is to bring structure, taste and clarity to it.
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