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As a digital designer at one of the largest automotive companies globally, you'll be at the forefront of creating engaging visual content. You'll work closely with copywriters, account managers, creative directors, strategists, and a dynamic team of creatives to produce a wide range of innovative materials. You are a proactive, adaptable professional with a penchant for collaboration and high design standards. Your focus is on crafting visually striking, strategically aligned, and flawless designs that resonate and drive results.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the Creative Process: Participate actively in ideation to production, ensuring innovative and consistent deliverables.
- Quality Assurance: Critically evaluate major projects, maintaining creative excellence and alignment with client goals.
- Effective Presentation: Confidently present work to clients alongside Creative Directors, articulating creative visions and enhancing brand messages.
- Client Engagement: Build and nurture strong client relationships through active listening and understanding their objectives and feedback.
- Hands-on Collaboration: Work seamlessly with cross-functional teams to advance projects and identify areas for enhancement.
- Campaign Direction: Lead the conceptual and aesthetic development of campaigns, design projects, and experiential activations.
- Innovation and Creativity: Set new industry benchmarks, ensuring all work remains intelligent, impactful, and scalable.
- Adaptability to Deadlines: Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment, prioritizing tasks while maintaining professionalism.
- Global Collaboration: Work effectively across time zones with a diverse team on local and international projects.
- Content Development: Partner with other creatives to produce captivating content across various formats, including digital, video, and animation.
- Cultivate Positive Culture: Show genuine commitment to fostering a healthy culture for colleagues and clients.
Qualifications
- Design Experience: 2+ years in design and art direction within advertising and marketing.
- Resilience Under Pressure: Ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet stringent deadlines consistently.
- Collaborative Design: Work effectively with creative leads and copywriters to achieve brand-aligned, strategic designs.
- Professional Presentation: Present work effectively with well-reasoned rationale, especially to senior leaders and clients.
- Critical Thinker: Leverage creative and analytical skills to assess ideas from a conceptual lens.
- Brand Consistency: Experience in crafting brand style guides for cohesive touchpoints.
- Strategic Discussion: Contribute positively and constructively to discussions from conception through production.
- Industry Experience: Background in automotive or production industries preferred.
- Digital Portfolio: A modern, digital-centric portfolio demonstrating excellence across formats (digital, video, social, etc.).
- Software Proficiency: Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Slack, and other design and collaboration tools.
Your Work Style
- Detail-Oriented: Meticulous focus on pixel-perfect execution and organized workflow.
- Self-Starter: Resilient and adaptable, thriving in quick-paced environments.
- Collaborative: Successfully manage fast turnarounds as part of a committed team.
- Solution-Focused: Client-centric with a strong work ethic and positive approach.
- Efficient Project Management: Streamline projects for maximum productivity and minimal friction.
- Feedback Receptive: Open to constructive feedback with a readiness to offer alternative solutions.
- Independent and Team Player: Comfortably shift between independent work and collaboration.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Driven to deepen understanding of related creative fields.
- Problem-Solver: Exhibit excellent problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.
- Trend Awareness: Stay informed on emerging creative trends and technologies.
- Commitment to Inclusion: Uphold equity, inclusion, and accessibility in all work aspects.
Working Conditions
Expect flexible working hours with tight deadlines, necessitating a commitment to high standards. Collaboration across various locations and time zones is a regular part of the role.
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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.