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.Monks is seeking an experienced and thoughtful hands–on Associate Design Director that will help direct, lead and substantiate exceptional design thinking and strategic design work for the world's highest–profile brands across a wide range of digital products, destinations and services. You have a deep love for design, its foundations and its principles and your contributions will directly affect designers across .Monks globally.
Responsibilities:
- Manage: Direct, build and manage diverse designers and design teams across time zones and cultures, helping to shape meaningful and exciting work. You will be a defining voice on art– creative and design executions.
- Craft & Review: Create, review, guide and enable singular design work, continuously enhancing and pushing towards industry–leading execution, from concept through realisation.
- Inspire: Help define, elevate and champion innovative design thinking and design craft for our design community across .Monks globally. You possess a keen interest in AI and its potential to enhance and optimise team workflows and outputs.
- Concept: Collaborate, co-direct and co-create with multidisciplinary teams on developing world–class visionary and strategic design proposals, creative concepts and applied design work.
- Present: Shape and articulate convincing creative narratives and critical design rationale. Present with passion and vibrantly substantiate conceptual and applied work to executive internal and external stakeholders.
- Plan: Work together with Operations to effectively organise, plan and allocate design resources.
- Schedule: Work with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure schedules and deadlines are realistic and accurate, making sure necessary course-corrections are identified and implemented.
- Maintain: Articulate and voice your point of view to direct and advance creative work, to improve projects
About You
- Experience: You have a proven and shown track record of (10 years or more) industry experience concepting, creative directing, pitching, shaping and crafting industry–leading digital proposals and projects.
- Design: You're a great designer. You don't mind getting your hands dirty, and your eye for aesthetics has led you to solve significant design challenges through hands–on design work, art– and creative direction on a wide variety of digital design mediums, products, projects and campaigns.
- Management: You possess effective management– mentoring and coaching skills. You're an experienced leader and you're passionate about fostering, growing, educating, motivating a team of creative professionals.
- Passion: You’re passionate about great design, art– and creative direction. You value and shape work that is thoughtful, impactful, significant, exciting, and industry–leading.
- Precision: You have a deep and thorough understanding of graphic, digital and general design theory, its fundamentals, design principles and best practices. You skilfully tie design elements together with thorough attention to detail to support the overall design execution and creative narrative.
- Soft-skills: Your exemplary soft-skills ensure you're great to work with and a creative problem solver in an ever–changing industry. Using your seasoned experience in production, you deftly navigate and surmount internal politics and production challenges. You collaborate fluently with colleagues and clients alike.
- Hard-skills: Mastery of all modern design and prototyping tools. You are tidy, detail oriented and you know how to logically organise your work and deliverables making the lives of your colleagues easier.
- Balance: Mindful of your own work/life balance and that of your colleagues, you’re able to effectively balance budgets, schedules, deadlines, managing and making. Within these constraints, you are inventive, flexible, resourceful and dedicated in making each proposal and delivery a success.
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.
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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.