Hiring | ad film copywriter (telugu + english)

Hiring | Ad Film Copywriter (Telugu + English)

Copywriter is the title. The job is ruining every other ad for you.

Hyderabad / Amaravati | 3–8+ years | Full-time

We're looking for an Ad Film Copywriter who can turn a brief into an idea, an idea into a script, and a script into a film people remember.

This is not a content-writing or social-media-copy role.

We want someone who understands advertising as a craft - who can find the human truth in a brief, write dialogue that sounds real, and stay with the idea until it reaches the screen.

What we're looking for

3–8+ years writing advertising at an agency, studio, production house or brand - with a reel of produced films. Scripts that got made, not decks that got shelved. Exceptional Telugu writing. You know how Telugu people actually speak - across regions, generations and audiences - and you write it, you don't translate into it. Strong English copy for national brands and digital campaigns. Range across formats - a 6-second cut, a 30-second TVC, a 3-minute brand film - and across categories: automotive, real estate, retail, FMCG, education, finance, lifestyle. You develop the idea - platforms, concepts, taglines - not just execute someone else's. You can present an idea to a client, defend it, and rewrite it when the brief changes or the shoot throws up a problem. Three brands, two deadlines, one week - and the work still has an idea in it.

Strongly preferred

A sharp instinct for regional humour, culture and behaviour. Advertising created for Telugu audiences, not adapted from national campaigns. DOOH, CTV or performance creative - writing that lands in five seconds with no sound. Familiarity with AI tools for ideation and pre-visualisation - and clear opinions on where the writer's brain matters more.

We are NOT looking for

A content writer whose portfolio is blogs, brochures and social captions. Someone who can write only after a Creative Director hands them the idea. Someone who writes English and expects someone else to make it Telugu. Someone who thinks advertising is a beautiful film with a logo at the end. Someone who hands over the script and disappears from production.

The opportunity

You will work across brands, categories and formats - from regional launches to national campaigns - and shape how we approach creative, storytelling and production.

We are building a company at the intersection of advertising, Ad Tech, market intelligence and AI - and we want someone who thinks beyond the 30-second slot.

If you think an ad that isn't remembered was never made - we should talk.

Apply with your profile + reel + a short note on the three films you're proudest of, what the brief was, and the idea you found that nobody else did.

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