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About the Role
Monks is hiring for an Art Director.
We’re looking for someone to take the lead in creating impactful assets (both online & offline) for an exciting brand. This role primarily focuses on social content, which means you'll be ideating editorial-style concepts rather than just traditional campaigns. You’ll need to harmonize speed, style, and scale to produce a consistent stream of eye-catching assets with a quick turnaround.
Responsibilities:
- Create style proposals, sketches, mockups, and prototypes to kick off designs for products, features, and campaigns.
- Generate creative ideas and execute them on a recurring basis, developing simple variations that stay fresh and engaging in a quick-turnaround environment.
- Collaborate with copywriters, designers, and strategists to conceptualize and execute content ideas that align with the global content calendar.
- Work for one of the world’s most iconic brands, ensuring your designs are on-brand and meet client expectations.
- Oversee the execution of the art direction, continuously improving the work with fresh ideas, inspiration, and best practices.
- Translate client and creative briefs into actionable design briefs that align with the client’s vision.
- Ensure pixel-perfect designs, maintaining the highest quality across all assets.
- Partner with the Senior Creative and Creative Director to ensure designs and processes meet client objectives and expectations.
About YouThe Essentials:
- At least 7 years of high-level experience as a senior designer or art director, crafting digital ads and assets.
- A slick portfolio showcasing your mastery of Photoshop.
- Strong English communication skills for working with clients and teams across global markets.
- Experience managing the full design process: from conceptualizing ideas to finalizing layouts and adapting designs for various markets and formats.
- Expertise in creating balanced, visually appealing layouts.
- Knowledge of templating and process optimization to streamline production.
- Deep understanding of design fundamentals such as typography, interaction design, flow, and storytelling.
- Ability to present and sell your designs to both clients and internal teams.
- Ideally, you’ve had some experience in client-facing presentations.
Not a must, but a plus:
- Proficiency in Figma.
- Experience with printing and Out-of-Home (OOH/DOOH) design.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
