Samriddhi (Vriddhi) Shetty
Copy Leadership & Creative Strategy

From contraception to luxury hospitality, across 15+ categories. I run the copy function at a Publicis Groupe agency: creative strategy, two writers, a 21-person design team and the standard the work is held to. Most people pick brand or performance; I've had to be fluent in both.

Mumbai

Selected Work

Motorsport - Greenko Group

India's first Formula E race

Greenko hired multiple agencies for a race the country had never hosted, three of us on digital marketing and comms. Until race week I was my agency's sole presence on it - brand and content strategy, digital media and everything made on the ground.

Footwear - Birkenstock

The silhouette never changes. The reason does.

A year of seasonal launches, range films and always-on for a brand whose whole promise is that it stays the same.

Luxury Hospitality - ITC Hotels

Thirty-one-plus campaigns, one voice maintained

A new campaign nearly every month, nearly all of them selling an offer. The offer has to feel worth having; the brand has to stay as premium as the properties it sells.

Education - Aakash Institute (Pitch)

In a category that runs on fear, this one didn't have to

A NEET aspirant and a JEE aspirant want different things, and so do their parents. Four audiences, each mapped against funnel stage before a line was written.

StudentParent
TopShort video > static - dream visualisation, built for a scrolling cultureStatic > short video - quick-read formats, no data overload
MiddleCarousel + testimonial video - logical assurance, layeredCarousel + faculty bites - credibility, from the people teaching
BottomStatic + GIF + WhatsApp - storytelling gives way to decision activationStatic + email + call - clarity, direct
Real Estate - Kalpataru (Pitch)

One township, two buyers who want opposite things

One group wants less: less chaos, calmer evenings, room for three generations. The other wants progress, and to be seen making it. One line can't speak to both, so the pitch ran two territories.

Live Lighter

Established families

"You've earned a softer life."

Luxury language, not aspirational hustle language.

More, By Design

Young upgraders

"Engineered for achievers."

Optimisation and upward mobility - a smart decision, validated.

Clothing - Uniqlo (Pitch)

One thought, worn three ways

Banking - UnionBank Philippines

Making a credit card sound like a want

Written for the Philippines, in a category with a habit of sounding like paperwork. Playful enough to be read, measured enough to still be a bank - the card had to land as something you'd want, not something you'd qualify for.

Food & Beverage - Bellinie & Bae

End-to-end branding and comms

Names, concepts, the shoots, the menus - steered through my team. The brief was clear; the calendar wasn't kind, and all of it had to be built around one seamless story before the doors opened.

Side Build - In Development

Constellation

An agent that unifies inputs across disciplines like media, creative, SEO, commerce and analytics, so whatever reaches the client speaks in one voice. Built by me as an entry into a Publicis Groupe India-wide competition.

Experience

Since 2016

Now - Performics, Publicis Groupe

The copy function for a 21-person design team: creative strategy, two copywriters and the standard the work is held to. I led the department through a restructure from a creative model to a content one without a client feeling it, and have mentored writers from the wider content team to the point of genuine independence. I also co-conceptualised and ran a three-part copywriting workshop, open to writers, editors and senior staff alike, so that the rest of the floor understands what this side of the work actually looks like.

Before - VHonk Digital

The link between the organisation's leadership and a team of 15+ across copy, content and design - every piece of work came to me for final sign-off, and I was present for the majority of client meetings and shoots.

Roles

  • Leading the Copy Team
    Performics, Publicis Groupe
    2023 –
  • Content Lead & Strategist
    VHonk Digital
    2022–23
  • Senior Copywriter
    Gen Y Medium
    2021–22
  • Content Executive
    Howl Digital
    2020–21
  • Content Curator
    Enterprise India Fellowship
    2020
  • Social Media Associate, Then Head Of PR
    Speak
    2016–18

Beyond The Job Description

  • Board Of Studies, Mass Communication - Pune University2022 –
  • Guest Lecturer, Media Studies & Advertising - Pune University2022
  • Le Pitch Train Leaderboard - Publicis Global, APAC2025
  • Editorial Board, College Magazine - And Editor Of My OwnCollege

Tools change every eighteen months. Being the person who works out what to build with them doesn't go out of date.

Brands

Retainer · Project · Pitch

HUL - Lakmé, Pond's, Elle 18, St Ives · ITC Hotels · ITC - Sunfeast, Yippee · Uniqlo · Birkenstock · Lindt · Godrej · Abbott · Huggies · Cetaphil · Bioderma · Mankind Pharma · HDFC Bank · DBS Bank · Yes Bank · Union Bank Philippines · HRX by Hrithik Roshan · Formula E (Hyderabad) · Greenko Group · Kalpataru · KRBL · Amity University · Harrow International · Pizza Express · Aakash Institute · TVS iQube · Love Beauty & Planet · AO Smith · Welspun · Enrich Salons · 24 Mantra Organic · Zee Telugu

And another thirty-odd, across retainers, projects and pitches.

Categories

Pharma · Beauty · Banking · Fintech · Real Estate · Automobile · Contraception & Sexual Health · FMCG · Clothing · Luxury Hospitality · Food & Beverage · Education · Motorsport · Confectionery · Arts & Live Events

What are we making?

Copy Leadership & Creative Strategy
Updated September 2026