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About the role
As an Associate Creative Director you have a background in art direction on digital marketing, are comfortable collaborating directly with clients, have an acute attention to detail, and are passionate about beautiful, functional design that clearly communicates a message. The ideal candidate will have experience managing junior creatives across both creative and production tasks. They will demonstrate the ability to personally execute high fidelity, beautiful designs that answer the brief and confidently present our designs and ideas directly to our clients. We are an efficient team that creates quality work on tight timelines, so attention to detail, strong time management skills, and the ability to handle multiple projects with ease are a must. Sound like you? Let’s get acquainted.
Role & Responsibilities
- Produce and help manage high-quality visual design projects, from concept to execution, for digital campaigns, social media ads, presentations, video, animation, and more.
- Communicate effectively in a cross-functional team: including writers, animators, account and project managers.
- Present work supported with creative rationale to clients, strengthen existing client relationships, and partner with client stakeholders.
- Collborate with ease, the ability to receive feedback and work with with teammates to develop alternate creative solutions.
- Maintain consistent creative quality while applying client brand guidelines
- Be able to balance your own workload while managing and mentoring direct reports and junior team members.
- Push creative ideas futher — look for opportunities to go beyond the ask, you have an entrepreneurial attitude.
- Stay current on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to maintain a cutting-edge approach to design.
Requirements
- For this lead position, we’re looking for an Associate Creative Director with 4-6 years of professional experience, with 2+ years of experience managing a creative team
- Adept in Adobe Creative Suite and experience collaborating in Google Slides, Google Docs, and Slack
- You can produce concepts from scratch and enhance ideas provided by clients and colleagues
- You can successfully ideate and pitch your ideas in a brief but effective format
- You’ll need to have strong English communication skills (advanced), both written and verbal, to collaborate with clients and colleagues around the world.
- As part of a constructive and colloborative feedback loop, you can give and receive feedback with an open mind
- You are humble and colloborative to listen and learn from clients and teammates
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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.