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Mustafa Khan

@mustafakhan11

Creative Automation & Design Lead (13+ yrs) at JLL. Adobe scripting, AI-assisted workflows, brand governance. Cut production cycles by ~50%.

India

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What I'm looking for

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.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Design Lead & Creative Automation Lead

Current

JLL

Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 7 months)

Lead design and creative automation for high-volume real estate marketing across the Americas and global teams. Built Adobe InDesign/Illustrator tooling and AI-assisted workflows; automation portfolio credited with 22 FTE-equivalent savings (2026 target: 41). Cut production cycles from 3-4 days to 1-2. Own SOPs, QA and adoption; mentor designers. Automation Champion Award 2025.

Creative Lead

Exentrics

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)

Led multimedia presentations, campaign assets and promotional design while partnering with engineering on UX/UI improvements and digital experience changes. Mentored designers and freelancers, introducing SOPs and QA checkpoints that improved delivery consistency across concurrent projects. Recognised with Employee of the Month (2019).

Senior Web & Graphic Designer

Exchange4media

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (11 months)

Delivered integrated advertising, digital and broadcast-support assets from concept to production, including campaign collateral, online advertising, programme graphics and data-led scheduling visuals. Supported UX research and design through prototypes, user flows, wireframes, site maps and usability testing.

Senior Web & Graphic Designer

Meta Arch

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year)

Developed end-to-end marketing campaigns, brand identities, publications and digital/print collateral for real estate and architecture clients, managing work from concept through production.

Graphic Designer

AffinityX

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year)

Created seasonal brand campaigns, email and online promotions, trade-show graphics, window displays and print-ready collateral for global clients.

Web & Graphic Designer

Interactivo Web Agency

Jan 2014 - Jan 2016 (2 years)

Produced branding, packaging, publications, websites and campaign collateral for US and international clients, managing work from concept through client approval and production.