Creative Director, Art/Design

Description

Monks is expanding with key Creative roles. We are looking for that special category of conceptual thinkers who can generate award winning creativity across any and every contemporary discipline of execution, and need to be able to creatively direct projects from concept all the way into execution. You should have a knack for the visual side of storytelling, have 360 degree campaign experience and to be broadly versed across creative disciplines.

This key role will be working directly in a client facing team, building out strategic thought and creative ideas that have lasting impact. You will be part of building and defining a new breed of creative agency with some of the most innovative digital, social, technology and production expertise at your disposal.

Role

The Day-to-day Role Of a Creative Director Typically Involves

• In this key role, you’ll help steer the creative ship of one of our newest and most exciting large clients. As part of our team, you’ll be collaborating with creatives, copywriters, designers, animators, developers as well as with PMs, operations managers and a lot more talented Monks from all over the world.
• Working across teams and time zones, you’ll be developing concepts across a variety of innovative products.
• You’ll be client facing and co-owning client relationships. Pitching and presenting directly to our clients, you’ll be shaping and selling concepts as well as overseeing high-velocity production work streams.
• You’ll manage multiple work streams while ensuring all deliverables are at a world-class level
• You’ll create not just what the client asked for but what their campaign needs, working with designers to produce beautifully designed decks that are in line with the project’s objectives and requirements.
• Working on multiple projects at once, you go above and beyond each brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level.
• Leading multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines.
• You can forecast production and concepting issues in order to ask the right questions to the client and team and give solutions to future problems.
• Develop a holistic understanding of our clients’ partners, tech and creative in crafting flexible concepts that can be applied to a variety of partnership opportunities.
• As a Creative Director at Monks, you’re part of the most awesome agency on the planet, operating as ‘one office across 12 locations’ with an incredible in-house team of 7000+ Monks and counting.
  
  
  

Requirements

• For this senior-level position, we’re looking for a Creative with international experience in other markets than the US.
• Wow clients with presentation skills is a must.
• Our leadership can rely on you to run the creative parts of a pitch or project independently. The team can look up to you to recommend required resources and technology needed to execute assigned projects as a design mentor & problem-solver.
• An impressive conceptual outlook and ability to produce original ideas beyond the brief. You can produce concepts from scratch and enhance ideas provided by others.
• You have proven experience creating effective concepts for display ads and social (content) campaigns, using film, animation and imagery.
• You’re equally capable and confident in working for high-end brands: you’re looking for high-quality projects and aren’t afraid of tight turnarounds.
• Leading multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines.
• You can forecast production and concepting issues in order to ask the right questions to the client and team and give solutions to future problems.
• As part of a global company operating as one team across time zones, you can successfully collaborate at a distance. This is a remote position.
• You know how to maintain a positive vibe and can inspire coworkers to go the extra mile, wherever they are in the world.
  
  
  

Glad you made it here! Please include your portfolio URL in your application and on your resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws.

What We Offer

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$145,000—$158,000 CAD

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.

While we continue to grow our teams, please be mindful of fraudulent job postings and recruiting activities that may use our company name and information. Please be mindful to protect your personal information, especially your national identification number, and bank account information during a recruiting process. While Monks may reach out to potential candidates via LinkedIn, we will always ask applicants to apply through our website (https://monks.com/careers) and will never ask for payment or bank account information during the recruitment process.