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Monks is looking for a talented project manager to coordinate large scale design projects for an A list brand. In this dedicated role, you will run a team of designers that create static visuals that live in product interfaces. Half of your time will be spent embedded at the client’s office to safeguard good communication and close collaboration.
We’re recruiting an entrepreneurial production trooper with an eye for design and a knack for process optimization that will play an active role in the set up of a global design team.
Role & Responsibilities
- In this mid-level to senior position, you’ll act in concert with a top-name client to produce an ongoing work stream of static visual content that lives inside product interfaces.
- You work in close collaboration with the client, partially in-house at the brand, to run several work streams, monitor quality and safeguard timely deliveries.
- You’ll work with a network of designers, producers and QA teams distributed across the world and you are the nexus between briefings and execution that turns projects into a success by managing the end-to-end production on our behalf.
- Your role is to bring all of our in-house talents and teams together through excellent communication and make sure great work is being produced between our global offices.
What’s Next? You!
At Monks, you’ll be part of a successful and super-fast-moving company that creative people would kill to work for. If you’re eager to become our next producer, you should start sealing the deal with an awesome application. In return for your unblemished enthusiasm and emergent expertise, we offer you exponentially growing responsibilities, a snow-filled Easter, and a great bunch of colleagues to geek out with.
Please be attentive to the requirements for this role and accompany your application with examples of the work you’ve produced and a short cover letter detailing why you’re the right Monk for the job.
Requirements
- For this position, we're looking for production talent with 4+ years of experience working as a producer/project manager in advertising, content or digital production.
- You’re fluent in English. Other language skills are a bonus.
- You have a keen understanding of what is needed to make design projects come about.
- You’re a natural hustler, quick to learn and eager to succeed.
- You are independent and safeguard an extremely high quality design standard.
- You are very well organized and extremely focussed on structure and documentation.
- You are flexible and can shift gears fast.
- You are always on the look out for process optimizations that result in productivity increases.
- Leading the production of multiple work streams across several business units is no easy task and requires solid planning and communication skills.
- You like deep diving into software and mastering tools.
- You set operations up for scale by logging learnings, documenting processes and training the trainers.
- Your experience in a similar capacity has made you fabulous at dealing with stress and (stressed-out) clients across several time zones.
- In short, we need a true-born team player who can successfully work across teams, time zones and technologies.
Nice-to-have
- Experience with managing large-scale ad, asset, design or content campaigns.
- Experience with off-shore teams or cross continental work streams.
- Experience with in-house production studios.
- Eye for design.
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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.