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About the Role
Monks is hiring for a Senior Art Director.
In this role, you will be leading the creative design for social advertising and assets for a prominent fintech brand. In this role, you will be responsible for creating compelling visual concepts for social platforms, ensuring that designs are both creative and aligned with the brand's global content strategy. You’ll be working in a fast-paced environment, balancing speed, style, and quality, producing a high volume of engaging assets.
Responsibilities:
- Creative Leadership: Lead the development of design concepts, from style proposals, sketches, mockups, to final prototypes, for social ads and assets.
- Idea Generation: Come up with fresh and exciting design ideas that can be executed month after month, ensuring variation without losing the visual appeal or creative integrity.
- Collaboration: Partner closely with Copywriters, Designers, Animators and Strategists to conceptualize and execute content ideas that fit into the client’s global content calendar.
- Client Alignment: Work for one of the world’s leading fintech brands to ensure ideas and designs are in line with client expectations and brand standards.
- Execution & Quality Control: Oversee the execution of art direction, ensuring pixel-perfect designs and maintaining high-quality standards throughout the process.
- Creative Solutions: Offer new angles, inspiration, best practices, and practical solutions to improve the creative output.
- Brief Translation: Translating client and creative briefs into high-quality campaigns, ensuring that designs align with the brand’s vision and objectives.
- Team Collaboration: Collaborate with the Creative Director and team to ensure processes and designs align with client objectives and expectations.
About You
The Essentials:
- At least 7+ years of experience as a senior/lead art director, with a focus on digital advertising and assets.
- Advanced skills in design software such as Photoshop, Figma (is a must!), and other relevant tools.
- Proven ability to create high-quality social ads and digital assets for fast-paced, high-volume environments.
- Strong communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate with both internal teams and global clients.
- Experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualization to final delivery and market adaptation.
- Demonstrated ability to come up with innovative and strong design ideas, translating them into visually impactful designs.
- Knowledge of design fundamentals, including typography, interaction design, storytelling, and flow.
- Experience with templating and process optimizations to improve design workflows.
- Confidence in selling designs to clients and stakeholders, including presenting creative work effectively.
Not a must, but a plus:
- Experience with client presentations and managing client relationships directly.
- Experience in optimizing and improving creative workflows for teams.
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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.