Art Director

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Monks is looking for a designer to take the lead in thinking up digital ads and assets for awesome brands. The position is all about harmonizing speed, style and scale to produce loads of good-looking assets at a steady pace.

Role & Responsibilities

• You'll create style proposals, sketches, mockups and prototypes to kickstart the design for products, features and new campaigns.
• Working for the world's most beloved brands, you'll make sure designs are awesome and in line with expectations.
• You'll look after the execution of the art direction and help to improve the work by offering new angles, inspiration, best practices and practical solutions.
• You'll help translate creative/client briefs into thorough design briefs.
• Pixel perfectness is important, so you'll safeguard quality at all times.
• Working alongside the Creative Director and the team, you'll make sure our designs and processes are in line with the client's objectives and expectations.

Come Create Stuff for the Coolest Brands.
Please be attentive to the requirements for this role and accompany your portfolio with a custom cover letter detailing why you're the right designer for the job.
Requirements

• You're a technically skilled designer with 5+ years of high-level experience as senior/lead designer or art director crafting digital ads and assets.
• You have experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualizing styles to finalizing layouts and rolling out designs across markets and formats.
• Creating balanced and beautiful layouts is second nature to you.
• You also know a thing or two about templating and process optimizations.
• With an understanding of fundamentals such as typography, interaction design, flow and storytelling, you can get teams to improve the work on both an aesthetic and functional level.
• You know how to sell designs to colleagues and clients alike, and ideally have some experience doing client presentations.
• As showcased in your portfolio, your Photoshop skills are super slick.
• Upper Intermediate English

Nice-to-have

• Experience in the automotive or luxury sector

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 , ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year 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 , 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.