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Monks is seeking a highly creative and experienced Art Director to join our team, specializing in developing groundbreaking visual concepts for social media. In this leadership role, you will be instrumental in setting the creative direction and visual identity for one of the world's most recognizable brands, ensuring artistic excellence and strategic alignment across all social platforms.

Role & Responsibilities

Creative Leadership: Lead the conceptualization and art direction of static and motion visual assets specifically tailored for social media campaigns.
Concept Development: Generate original, strategic, and high-impact creative ideas that resonate with target audiences and align with brand guidelines.
Visual Strategy: Define and maintain the overall visual style and consistency for social content, ensuring a cohesive look and feel across various platforms and formats.
Team Collaboration: Partner with Art Directors, Copywriters, Content Creators, and Designers, providing clear direction and mentorship to elevate the quality of all output.
Client Collaboration: Work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to present and articulate creative concepts, ensuring their vision and objectives are met.
Production Oversight: Oversee the visual execution from concept through final production, ensuring impeccable quality, efficiency, and adherence to platform-specific best practices.
Adaptation and Scale: Harmonize speed, style, and scale to ensure a steady output of high-quality, on-brand assets, including mechanical and template building for regional adaptations.

Please be attentive to the requirements for this role and accompany your portfolio with a short cover letter detailing why you’re the right Monk for the job.

Requirements

You have 6+ years of experience in Art Direction, with a strong portfolio showcasing expertise in social media, digital advertising, and concept-driven design.
You possess advanced skills in creative concept development, visual storytelling, and brand identity application.
You have solid proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and a good understanding of motion design principles.
You have demonstrated experience in providing creative leadership and strategic direction to a team of designers and content creators.
Exceptional attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing production environment are essential.
You are a proactive and strategic thinker, constantly looking for ways to improve creative processes and output.
You're a clear, persuasive communicator, well-versed in English, and comfortable working with designers and clients from all over the world.
You are highly organized and can manage large-scale projects, file structures, and versioning with meticulous detail.

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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.

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