Design Director

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Monks is looking for a visionary
Design Director
to lead and elevate our global asset design capabilities. In this senior role, you'll shape the creative direction for international brands, steering a team of world-class designers, illustrators, animators, and art directors to deliver bold, innovative, and scalable design solutions.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead Global Design Vision: Define and oversee creative strategies that bring brands to life across diverse mediums, spanning branding, digital, motion, and print.
• Drive Innovation with AI & Emerging Tech: Leverage AI-driven design tools and workflows (e.g., generative AI for image creation, layout automation, or motion prototypes) to push boundaries in efficiency and creativity.
• Creative Leadership: Mentor, inspire, and guide a distributed global team, fostering a culture of design excellence, collaboration, and experimentation.
• Quality & Consistency: Ensure creative output meets the highest aesthetic standards, aligns with brand guidelines, and delivers impact across formats, platforms, and markets.
• Strategic Partnering: Work closely with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to shape creative narratives, define design systems, and deliver world-class brand experiences.
• Operational Mastery: Balance speed, scale, and style, overseeing design pipelines, optimizing workflows, and ensuring efficiency without compromising quality.
• Creative Exploration: Continuously explore trends in design, AI, and technology to elevate creative outcomes and inspire innovative solutions for global campaigns.

Requirements
We're looking for a
Design Director
with proven expertise in creative leadership and advanced design execution:

• Experience: 12+ years of high-level design experience, including at least 4 years in a leadership or director role overseeing branding, digital, and motion design.
• AI & Tech Proficiency: Strong understanding of AI-powered design tools (e.g., MidJourney, DALL·E, Runway, Stable Diffusion, or Adobe Firefly) and ability to integrate them into creative workflows.
• Design Mastery: Exceptional command of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Figma. Proficiency in After Effects is essential; experience in 3D (Blender, Cinema 4D) is a significant advantage.
• Global Collaboration: Skilled at working with international teams across time zones, with excellent communication and client-facing skills in English.
• Creative Excellence: A portfolio that demonstrates innovation, storytelling, and high-level craft across branding, motion, and integrated campaigns.
• Organizational Strength: Strong ability to manage complex projects, streamline creative workflows, and uphold file, layer, and asset management best practices.
• Leadership: Proven ability to mentor teams, present ideas to C-level stakeholders, and align creative direction with business and brand strategy.

Why Monks?
At Monks, you'll join a crazy-ambitious global team on a mission to become the world's leading creative production partner. You'll be part of a collaborative network of 8,000+ Monks across several locations around the globe, working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and design innovation.

If you're ready to shape the future of design at scale and harness the power of AI and emerging tech to redefine brand storytelling - we'd love to meet you.

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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 , ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year 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 , 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.