Kritarth Sethi

Kritarth Sethi

Creative Strategist & Content Lead

New Delhi, India

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About

Creative Strategist and Content Lead with 9+ years of end-to-end experience across brand storytelling, content strategy, campaign development, and creative production. Career spans one of the world's largest communications networks (Havas Group), independent entrepreneurship, and India's top film and streaming productions - including collaborations with Academy Award-winning filmmakers and international festival coverage across Cannes and TIFF. Built and scaled a creative agency from zero to a profitable, multi-client business within 18 months with no external investment, before joining Havas as a Creative Producer. Brings a rare combination of creative vision, strategic thinking, and full production ownership - consistently starting with the brief, shaping the idea, building the team, and owning the outcome from conceptualisation through delivery. Working knowledge of AI-assisted content workflows and digital content marketing principles.

What I'm looking for

Senior content or creative leadership role (Creative Director, Head of Content, Content Lead) at a genuinely global-remote company, ideally SaaS, AI, or creator economy. I want to set narrative strategy and stay close enough to the work to write and direct it myself, not just manage from a distance. Best fit: a team that treats content as a growth lever, values evidence-led storytelling, and moves fast. Open to full-time roles, and select fractional or freelance work.

Experience

Creative Producer

PivotRoots (Havas Group)

Nov 2025 – May 2026

• Defined content strategy and shaped creative direction for 10+ brands across entertainment, financial services, and consumer categories at one of the world's largest global communications networks. • Translated complex, multi-stakeholder briefs into platform-optimised content strategies and production plans, managing cross-functional teams across creative, strategy, and client servicing under tight timelines. • Developed platform-native content series and formats for India's leading entertainment broadcaster, a major financial services brand, and consumer lifestyle companies, using audience insights and performance data. • Managed end-to-end campaign delivery across digital and social channels, ensuring consistent creative quality and on-brief execution across multiple brand voices simultaneously.

Content StrategyCreative DirectionCampaign Delivery
Freelance

Independent Filmmaker

Freelance

Jan 2017 – Dec 2025

• Directed and produced brand films, digital content, and short films across education, fitness, and NGO sectors, developing a director's foundation in end-to-end visual storytelling and commercial communication. • Created original short films and led performance direction workshops, building a body of work across both commercial and narrative formats.

Film DirectionContent ProductionVisual Storytelling

Founder & Creative Lead

Stories On Screen

Apr 2024 – Sep 2025

• Built and scaled a creative agency from zero to a profitable, multi-client business within 18 months, with no external investment, by pitching, winning, and delivering projects end-to-end across branded content, events, and social media. • Set the creative and strategic vision for every client engagement: defining the content approach, directing production, managing client relationships, and building the team capable of executing it. • Led content strategy for the Indian vertical of Women In Film organisation (1M+ monthly impressions within 3 months of launch), a nationally recognised actress (3M+ organic views on a single content piece), and a large-scale public event with 100,000+ footfall. • Delivered branded content, social campaigns, and productions across fashion, FMCG, NGO, and entertainment sectors, contributing to 75M+ combined career views across platforms.

Content StrategyCreative DirectionBranded Content
Casting Bay

Associate Casting Director

Casting Bay

Nov 2018 – Mar 2024

• Applied end-to-end casting process across 25+ major films and streaming productions at India's top production companies, working alongside the country's most respected directors. • Notable productions include Vikram Vedha, Panchayat, Kill, Merry Christmas, Darlings, Tandav, Saas Bahu Aur Flamingo, and Madgaon Express, among others. • Collaborated with India's top directors, including Sriram Raghavan, Vasan Bala, Dibakar Banerjee, Ali Abbas Zafar, and Homi Adajania. Also collaborated with Academy Award-winning filmmakers. • Built deep relationships across directors, producers, and talent - a network and industry understanding that directly informs content strategy and production decisions across all subsequent work.

Casting ProcessFilm ProductionTalent Management

Education

University of Delhi

University of Delhi

Bachelor of Science · Life Sciences

Skills

Creative WritingAI-Assisted WorkflowsClient ManagementScript DevelopmentContent MarketingSocial Media StrategyContent StrategyEditorial PlanningAudience InsightsCreative ProductionCreative DirectionCampaign DevelopmentContent DevelopmentBrand StorytellingCreative Strategy

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Punjabi (Professional working proficiency)