Selected work from teams I BUILT
Your startup is scaling. Your creatives aren't.
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Hiring takes 3 months — and you need campaigns shipping next week.
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Agencies don’t get it — they’ve never scaled a startup from the inside.
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Freelancers are a headache — you’re managing 5 people across 3 time zones.
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Your designers are maxed out — and no one’s giving them creative direction anyway.
Get a creative team
that scales with you.
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SEED
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established
A full creative ecosystem. Built to scale.
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SERIES a-b
I’ve done this before.
In the past 7+ years I’ve led creative teams at startups that raised hundreds of millions and scaled from Seed to Unicorn. Here’s what we built together.
FinTech
Leap
Led the creative team through hypergrowth: brand repositioning, performance creative at scale, and a full paid social engine built from scratch.
Seed → Series D
EdTech
Teachmint
Built and directed an in-house creative department covering brand, product marketing, and high-production video across multiple markets.
Series A → Series D
FinTech
Appreciate
Positioning and launch creative for a new investing product — landing pages, email sequences, and a performance ad system.
Seed
Retail
Hamleys
Campaign concepting and production direction for retail moments, translating a legacy brand into performance-ready creative.
Enterprise
Three ways to work together
Tier 01
Creative Leadership
For startups with in-house teams who need leadership.
Weekly creative strategy sessions
Campaign concepting and creative briefs
Review and approval of all creative
Slack support for quick feedback
Tier 02
Most Popular
Creative Leadership + Core Team
For startups who need a full creative department, not just advice.
Everything in Tier 01, plus a dedicated creative team: copywriter, designer, video editor
Team fits right into your current workflow
Unlimited revisions within scope
5–7 day turnaround on requests
Tier 03
Creative Leadership + Full Creative Department
For scaling brands that need high-production campaigns.
Everything in Tier 02, plus high-production video shoots with actors, locations, and full crew
Brand strategy and repositioning projects
Multiple workstreams: brand + performance + social
Expanded team, with multiple specialists per discipline
Why clients choose me over agencies or in-house hires
Agencies
An outside view of the startup
You’re one of fifty clients
Optimized for awards, not metrics
Me
I’ve scaled startups from the inside
Strategy and execution for half the cost
Limited, handpicked clients
Optimized for performance and growth
Team ships campaigns in weeks, not months
Zero HR headaches — I manage everyone
In-House
Takes 6+ months to hire
Ongoing management cost
Real risk of bad hires
Hi, I'm Rishabh.
The Résumé Stuff
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Led creative teams at hyper-growth startups (Leap, Teachmint)
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Scaled brands through Seed → Series D
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Worked across 3 continents, from Scandinavia to Silicon Valley
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Top 1% creative talent on Upwork — which means I can still write a killer headline at 2am if needed
What Actually Matters
Most Creative Directors come from big agencies where “strategy” means PowerPoint decks and “execution” means someone else’s problem. I come from startups, where execution means “I’ll do it myself if I have to.”