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Creative Lead Jobs in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia at Katapix Media
Title: Creative Lead
Company: Katapix Media
Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Company Description
Katapix Media is an award-winning Audiovisual Production, Post-production, and Digital Marketing agency specializing in innovative, efficient solutions that drive business growth for clients. Our comprehensive services include audiovisual production, visual effects, 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, and digital marketing. With a team of professionals boasting over 10 years of expertise in their fields, we pride ourselves on delivering creative solutions that exceed client expectations.
We are looking for a Creative Lead to drive creative excellence, team leadership, and day-to-day studio operations across a high-volume, fast-paced creative production environment.
The ideal candidate brings a strong combination of creative judgment, production awareness, leadership maturity, and operational discipline, with the ability to guide multidisciplinary teams across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
Creative Leadership
- Lead creative quality and consistency across all assigned workstreams and deliverables.
- Translate briefs, strategic goals, and stakeholder feedback into clear creative direction for the team.
- Ensure outputs meet brand, campaign, and platform standards while maintaining a high level of craft.
- Provide actionable feedback and creative guidance to artists, editors, designers, and other creative team members.
- Partner with production and creative stakeholders to solve creative challenges and maintain quality under tight timelines.
Team Leadership
- Act as a day-to-day leader for the creative team, supporting performance, accountability, and team development.
- Foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented, and high-performing team culture.
- Help identify team needs, skill gaps, and opportunities for coaching and growth.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and evaluation processes for creative talent when needed.
- Serve as a point of escalation for creative or workflow issues that may impact delivery.
Studio Operations and Workflow Oversight
- Oversee day-to-day creative operations across multiple projects and production streams.
- Coordinate with producers, project managers, and department leads to align priorities, staffing, and workflow needs.
- Monitor project progress, flag risks early, and help remove blockers affecting quality or delivery.
- Drive process improvements that increase clarity, consistency, efficiency, and scalability across the team.
- Help maintain strong communication and alignment between creative, production, and stakeholder teams.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with production, creative producers, account stakeholders, and studio leadership to ensure successful execution.
- Participate in reviews, planning sessions, and stakeholder conversations as a creative and operational lead.
- Balance creative ambition with practical execution realities, timelines, and team capacity.
- Help translate business needs into actionable creative and operational plans.
Quality Control
- Review work at key stages to ensure it meets expected creative and technical standards.
- Maintain consistency in execution, presentation, and overall craft across deliverables.
- Champion best practices, documentation, and clear working standards across the team.
- Help create an environment where quality and efficiency can coexist, instead of fighting like two cats in a laundry basket.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in creative production, post-production, content creation, design, motion, game capture, or related creative environments
- 2+ years in a leadership role overseeing teams, workflows, or creative operations
- Strong experience leading multidisciplinary teams in fast-paced production settings
- Proven ability to balance creative quality with operational efficiency
- Experience working across multiple stakeholders and parallel workstreams
- Strong communication, prioritization, and decision-making skills
- Comfortable giving direct, constructive feedback and driving accountability
- Experience in gaming, entertainment, social content, or large-scale creative production environments is a strong plus
Preferred Skills
- Strong understanding of studio workflows, creative pipelines, and production handoffs
- Experience partnering closely with producers and project managers
- Ability to identify process gaps and implement practical improvements
- High attention to detail with strong visual judgment
- Calm and solution-oriented under pressure
- Familiarity with asset review pipelines, creative approvals, and production tracking systems
- If you like video games and are a gamer you will be a rockstar
Success Metrics
- Consistent creative quality across deliverables
- Healthy and efficient team workflows
- Strong cross-functional alignment
- Reduced blockers and smoother execution
- Positive team leadership and clear creative direction
- Scalable creative operations that support delivery demands
