Creative Director

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About the Role

We are looking for a conceptual thinker and creative leader who is native to the worlds of both digital advertising and artificial intelligence. You are a storyteller, a technologist, and a taste-maker who understands that a great prompt can be as powerful as a great headline.
As a Creative Director at Monks, you will be the driving force behind our creative output, translating our clients' complex technologies into compelling, human-centric stories. You will lead teams of designers, writers, and other designers, guiding them to create work that is not only beautiful and effective but also genuinely innovative. You are both a visionary who can imagine the future of brand expression and a hands-on leader who can guide a team to bring that vision to life, pixel by pixel, prompt by prompt.

Responsibilities:

• As a Creative Director at a global creative production agency, life’s a pitch: you engage projects for a living and relay responsibilities to others once the ball is rolling in the right (creative) direction.
• You’ll work together with the business team to identify the local market’s need for our services.
• You’ll also own the creative execution of projects, seeing them through from pitch to final delivery.
• You’ll be collaborating with creatives, copywriters, designers, animators, developers as well as with PMs, operations managers and a lot more talent from all over the world.
• You’ll create not just what the client asked for but what their needs, producing beautifully designed decks that are in line with the project’s objectives and requirements.
• Working on multiple projects at once, you go above and beyond each brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level.
• Whether it’s through programmatic targeting or dynamic content, your job is to get the right message across to the right audience(s).
• You bring top-notch production thinking to the table and provide creative consultation when it comes to the nitty-gritty of cutting-edge campaigns.
• Pitching directly to our clients, you’ll be shaping and selling concepts for anything (digital) from rich media to display ads to brand content and social media campaigns to film production.

 

About You

The essentials:

• You have 5+ years of experience in a creative leadership at a top-tier digital agency or tech company, with a proven track record of leading teams and shipping excellent work.
• Your portfolio demonstrates not just beautiful campaigns, but true conceptual thinking, a deep understanding of digital platforms, and a tangible curiosity for technology and new forms of interaction.
• You are fluent in the language and practice of modern AI. You have demonstrable, hands-on experience with generative AI platforms (e.g., Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Runway, Pika) and a strong understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs).
• You are a natural leader—articulate, empathetic, and able to inspire a team to do the best work of their careers.
• You are a systems thinker, able to understand complex technical concepts and translate them into simple, powerful creative ideas.
• You have a low ego and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, working alongside some of the most demanding and innovative clients in the world.
• Make no mistake, this role requires you to put pen to paper and come up with buzzworthy ideas, and have the ability to present them in equally compelling decks.
• You will take ownership for the entire campaign, providing strong leadership and direction throughout all stages of a project, including the management of a wider team of creatives, designers, illustrators and animators.
• You know how to show leadership without a show of force, giving our (remote working) in-house teams a clear creative direction and ownership over their projects.
• You can independently lead fast-paced pitches but also love going the extra mile when painstakingly pushing running projects to perfection.
• You’re confident leading different types of work spanning from digital and social campaigns to platforms and websites, and installations.
• With strong pitching and presentation skills, you can represent Monks by showcasing our cases, capabilities and culture to clients.
• As part of a global company operating as one team across time zones, you need to be able to successfully direct work at a distance.

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.  

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

 

 

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

 

Salary Range$160,000—$170,000 USD

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.