Creative Director-bilingual

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About the Role

As a Creative Director, you’ll oversee the day-to-day creative functions within a fast-growing and fast-paced team working on a social-first communications brand. You’ll be responsible for delivering primarily social media creative that speaks the language of trends and culture fluently, while elevating the conceptual and executional quality of the brand.

Responsibilities:

• Creative Steward: First and foremost, you will set the tone and the standard of quality for the brands you work on:

• This includes working with the internal brand and strategy team to help set/maintain the tone and vision for the brand.

• This also includes reviewing all the creative work that will ultimately make its way to the client, providing quality control over your team’s output.

• You will ensure that creative projects are delivered on their agreed upon timeline and on budget ensuring commercial success.

• You will lead concept development, with the expectation that you will occasionally need to adopt the mindset of a maker, too.

• You will digest feedback from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring it is actionable for your teams.

• You will oversee nimble projects with art and copy teams, as well as internal filmmakers/content creators and external production partners, ensuring footage captured is of a quality commensurate with the expectation of the agency and the client.

• Client relationship management: while not everyone’s cup of tea, it’s the relationship that builds the trust. As a CD, you’re expected to be comfortable interacting with clients, and owning and growing the relationship.

• Specifically: your POV is critical to making the work better and protecting the integrity of ideas.

• You will be expected to present, sell, and speak to the core of an idea, as well as provide support for the work.

• You will be required to help storytell ideas for clients, internal teams and your own creative teams. Your ability to “clean up the idea” is essential to its impact.

• Talent development, recruitment and retention:

• Participating in and leading hiring decisions on team creative candidates, taking into consideration the department/agency’s needs and growth potential.

• Overseeing, mentoring, and growing your team’s talent.

• Offering a point of view on the team’s composition and structure, including promotions, job openings and overall growth opportunities.

• Fostering an environment of trust, support, and advocacy for your team while maintaining a calm demeanor.

• Modeling the ability to problem-solve in a fast-paced environment, and pivot as necessary without losing sight of quality.

About You

The essentials:

• Must have at least 2 years experience in an Associate Creative Director or equivalent role including concept development and client contact. Conceptual art direction background is preferred, with a well-developed creative point of view and the ability to decisively identify strong ideas and executions.

• Must be social-media obsessed. You have deep love and knowledge of trends, platforms, best practices, and the best work happening right now. You should have your finger on the pulse of creative culture, and have a deep bench of reference from all different sources that could help inspire creative avenues.

• Must have production experience with and an understanding of the production process.

• Must have run teams of 4 or more.

• Must be willing to travel for shoots and productions, up to 20% of the time (most shoots are currently in the LA area).

• Los Angeles-based or within a commutable distance is strongly preferred.

Not a Must but a Plus:

• Bilingual English & Spanish is a major plus. The majority of the work on the account is English mass-market, with about 10-20% US-Spanish transcreation. The ability to converse, ideate, write, and provide creative feedback with cultural insight and nuance for Spanish-speaking US audiences is a major plus.

• Experience working in a nimble content creation environment is strongly preferred.

• Experience creating and overseeing both paid and organic social creative is strongly preferred.

• Should be able to steer and collaborate with creatives across disciplines, including writers, content creators, editors, designers, and motion artists.

• Strong design sensibility, with knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography.

• A collaborative mindset, and ability to work closely and create an environment of trust amongst strategic, brand, creative and production partners.

• Ability to translate creative ideas and executions into a sellable idea through deck storytelling and internal and external presentation skills.

• Curiosity or experience with generative AI tools for tasks like presentation visuals is a plus.

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.

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!

• 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!)

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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:
$162,000—$185,000 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.