Mustafa Khan

Senior remote or relocation-friendly leadership role in creative automation, design operations or creative management with a global brand, agency or marketing organisation. I want to own the roadmap for scaling creative production via Adobe scripting, AI-assisted workflows and brand governance, mentor a design team, and be measured on turnaround, quality and FTE savings. Creative Automation and Design Operations leader with 13+ years of experience turning complex, high-volume creative production into scalable, measurable workflows. Currently Design Lead & Creative Automation Lead at JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle), where I lead multidisciplinary design and automation initiatives across global real estate marketing, combining creative direction, Adobe scripting, generative AI, brand governance, operational excellence and team development. Career impact: • Helped deliver an automation portfolio credited with 22 FTE-equivalent savings; contributed to the 2026 roadmap targeting 41 FTE-equivalent savings. • Reduced standard production cycles from 3-4 days to 1-2 days and complex projects from 6-8 days to 4-5 days through automation and workflow redesign. • Built and scaled a suite of Adobe InDesign and Illustrator production tools for document setup, image fitting, layout, typography, brand QA, maps and floor plans. • Implemented AI-assisted workflows for brief interpretation, content structuring, design direction, presentation conversion, collateral creation and quality control, with governance, human review and measurable pilot criteria built in. Core expertise: • Leadership: creative leadership, design operations, global delivery, stakeholder management, mentoring, capacity planning and SLA ownership. • Automation: Adobe InDesign/Illustrator scripting (JavaScript/ExtendScript), AI-assisted workflows, template systems, PowerPoint and Excel VBA, process mapping and workflow optimisation. • Governance: brand systems, design QA/QC, typography and layout standards, SOPs, adoption, training, documentation and performance measurement. Tools: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Acrobat, Figma, Adobe XD; expert-level Claude (Code, Artifacts, Cowork) plus hands-on Qwen, GLM, Gemini, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot; AI video/avatar production with Kling and HeyGen; HTML5, CSS, WordPress, Oracle Eloqua, Poppulo. Awards: JLL Automation Champion Award (2025), Operations Superstar Award (2022), Client Centric Award (2021); Exentrics Employee of the Month (2019). Education: Master of Computer Applications and Bachelor of Computer Applications, University of Pune. Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu. Based in Gurugram, India and open to international relocation.