Senior Art Director

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Role & Responsibilities

Creative Direction & Conceptual Leadership

Lead the development of visual concepts, campaign territories, and creative systems across integrated brand and digital experiences.

Translate strategic and creative briefs into compelling visual narratives and scalable campaign thinking.

Shape and elevate creative work across social, branding, content, motion, digital, and experiential touchpoints.

Bring fresh perspectives, cultural relevance, and contemporary creative thinking into every stage of the process.

Present and defend creative rationale confidently to clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

Provide creative leadership and mentorship across designers and broader creative teams.

Partner closely with Creative Directors, Strategists, Copywriters, Motion Designers, Producers, and Client teams.

Help create an environment that encourages experimentation, collaboration, and creative excellence.

Guide teams through fast-moving workflows while maintaining clarity, momentum, and high standards.

Craft & Execution

Maintain exceptional standards across typography, layout, composition, imagery, motion awareness, and storytelling.

Oversee creative consistency and quality across multiple formats, channels, and regional adaptations.

Ensure ideas are scalable, production-aware, and aligned with brand systems and platform best practices.

Champion the thoughtful integration of AI-powered creative tools into concepting, design development, workflow efficiencies, and creative operations.

Apply critical and strategic thinking when evaluating AI-assisted outputs, emerging technologies, and evolving creative workflows.

Contribute hands-on to concept development, visual exploration, presentations, and key executions where needed.

Systems, Process & Innovation

Identify opportunities to improve workflows, systems, and creative scalability across projects and teams.

Help shape best practices around modern creative production and distributed collaboration.

Explore emerging technologies and evolving workflows that improve both creative quality and operational efficiency.

Balance creativity, speed, and operational efficiency within high-volume environments.

Requirements

10+ years of experience across art direction, design, branding, campaigns, and digital creative environments.

Outstanding portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, creative leadership, and exceptional visual craft.

Proven experience leading integrated campaigns and multidisciplinary creative projects within a fast-paced creative, advertising, or digital agency environment.

High proficiency across Figma, Google Slides, and the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Deep understanding of digital ecosystems, social-first content, integrated campaign development, and motion-aware storytelling.

Strong experience presenting creative work to senior stakeholders and clients.

Ability to lead and mentor creative teams across distributed and remote environments.

Excellent communication skills with fluent English proficiency.

Strong understanding of scalable creative systems, workflows, and production processes.

Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and emerging technologies such as GPT-5, Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Veo, Figma AI, Google Gemini Ecosystem, etc.

Nice to Have

Experience working across APAC markets.

Lifestyle, luxury, technology, or automotive brand experience.

Experience in vibe-coding and/or agentic workflow.

Motion, film, or content production experience.

Experience leading work across regional or global creative teams.

What We Value

Creative leaders who raise the standard of the work and the people around them.

Individuals who combine conceptual thinking with strong executional craft.

Curiosity, adaptability, and a future-focused mindset.

Teams that collaborate openly, move quickly, and continuously evolve.

Creatives who embrace technology-enabled creativity and evolving workflows.

People who care deeply about quality, culture, innovation, and building great work together.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It 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 (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, 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.