Art Director (Content)

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Role & Responsibilities

• You're a design thinker as much as a crafter. You understand cultures, you're open to new experiences and you're a tastemaker with impeccable and progressive aesthetics.

• You’re confident with your creative thinking, you ask questions, you contribute to the overall creative process, and make work better through positive collaboration.

• You'll be responsible for elevating the craft for some of the world’s most beloved brands, you make sure that designs are awesome and in line with expectations.

• You’ll help to translate creative/client briefs into thorough design briefs.

• You go above and beyond the brief to push what’s possible when it comes to design opportunities and aesthetics.

• You’ll help to ideate and create style proposals, sketches, and mockups to kickstart new projects and win pitches.

• For some projects, you set the style; for others, you help safeguard predefined styles.

Requirements:

• You’re a technically skilled designer with 3+ years of experience as a designer or art director crafting digital designs and advertising materials

• As showcased in your portfolio, not only are your Photoshop skills so slick, they look shopped, but your design thinking gets them talking.

• You're a master of Figma / Sketch.

• Experience in IA tools

• You're a great collaborator and enjoy working with clients and colleagues around the world. You have strong communication skills.

• You have experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualizing to designing layouts and quality assurance when working with the production team when rolling out different formats across markets.

• You're a tastemaker and have a strong design sensibility.

• You have a solid understanding and fundamentals such as typography, grid system, interaction design, flow, storytelling, and design system, you can get teams to improve the work conceptually, aesthetically, and functionally.

• You're confident to present designs to colleagues and clients alike.

Monks is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

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.