Lead the global design vision and steer a distributed team of world-class designers, leveraging AI tools to push creative boundaries and deliver impactful brand experiences.
Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website (monks.com/careers).
Monks is looking for a visionary Design Director to lead and elevate our global asset design capabilities. In this senior role, you’ll shape the creative direction for international brands, steering a team of world-class designers, illustrators, animators, and art directors to deliver bold, innovative, and scalable design solutions.
Lead Global Design Vision: Define and oversee creative strategies that bring brands to life across diverse mediums, spanning branding, digital, motion, and print.
Drive Innovation with AI & Emerging Tech: Leverage AI-driven design tools and workflows (e.g., generative AI for image creation, layout automation, or motion prototypes) to push boundaries in efficiency and creativity.
Creative Leadership: Mentor, inspire, and guide a distributed global team, fostering a culture of design excellence, collaboration, and experimentation.
Quality & Consistency: Ensure creative output meets the highest aesthetic standards, aligns with brand guidelines, and delivers impact across formats, platforms, and markets.
Strategic Partnering: Work closely with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to shape creative narratives, define design systems, and deliver world-class brand experiences.
Operational Mastery: Balance speed, scale, and style, overseeing design pipelines, optimizing workflows, and ensuring efficiency without compromising quality.
Creative Exploration: Continuously explore trends in design, AI, and technology to elevate creative outcomes and inspire innovative solutions for global campaigns.
We’re looking for a Design Director with proven expertise in creative leadership and advanced design execution:
At Monks, you’ll join a crazy-ambitious global team on a mission to become the world’s leading creative production partner. You’ll be part of a collaborative network of 8,000+ Monks across several locations around the globe, working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and design innovation.
If you’re ready to shape the future of design at scale and harness the power of AI and emerging tech to redefine brand storytelling - we’d love to meet you.
LI-PP1
About Monks
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.
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.
Monks offers a distinctive blend of global marketing and technology services to enhance how brands connect with consumers in a digital-first world. By harnessing data-driven insights and innovative strategies, it aims to redefine brand interactions for a wide spectrum of clients.
Please mention you found this job on AI Jobs. It helps us get more startups to hire on our site. Thanks and good luck!
Understand the required skills and qualifications, anticipate the questions you may be asked, and study well-prepared answers using our sample responses.
Director Q&A's