Senior Art Director

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Monks is seeking an Art Director to join a client asset production team. This is a hands-on art direction role focused on shaping visual outcomes, enforcing creative governance, and ensuring brand consistency across high-volume, AI-enabled asset production. The Art Director will partner with Governance, Operations, AI and production leads to translate briefs into production-ready visual direction and quality-approved deliverables.

The Lowdown

• Deliver clear visual direction and approval for master and adapted assets to ensure brand integrity and creative excellence across global markets.

• Define and maintain master visual systems: contribute to toolkits, templates, style guides, and QA checkpoints used in automated/adaptive pipelines.

• Provide art direction for agentic (AI) and hybrid productions: craft visual briefs, review AI-generated concepts and storyboards, and validate final outputs for compliance with brand and production standards.

• Work with Governance and Operations to triage briefs and translate them into production-ready creative direction.

• Collaborate closely with Creative Technologist and AI Solutions Director to ensure templates, guardrails and asset components are aligned to production and agent studio requirements.

• Support change enablement by producing creative playbooks and contributing to feedback loops for AI/automation adoption.

Scope:

• Operates within the Governance & Creative Leadership team; reports to senior creative leadership and collaborates with AI, production, account and localization teams.

• Works within an AI-first, agentic production model; assesses when traditional production is required and documents rationale.

Requirements

• 6+ years of digital design/art direction experience with demonstrable work in brand campaigns, systems, or high-volume adaptation workflows.

• Strong craft: composition, typography, motion basics and visual storytelling; Figma required.

• Practical experience or understanding of AI-enabled creative processes and agentic workflows; ability to evaluate AI-generated outputs.

• Experience contributing to creative systems, templates and style/toolkits at scale.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to translate strategy into clear visual direction for production and technical teams.

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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.