Senior Designer

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About Monks

Monks is a global, digital-first brand that operates at the intersection of creativity, technology, and culture. We create integrated work across brand, digital, social, motion, campaigns, platforms, and emerging technology for some of the world’s most ambitious brands.

We’re looking for a Senior Designer to join our APAC Hub team based remotely in Kuala Lumpur, supporting clients and teams across AUNZ and the wider APAC region. This role is ideal for a highly craft-driven creative who thrives in fast-moving environments and brings strong visual thinking across digital, social, brand, and campaign work.

At Monks, we believe modern creatives should be fluent in evolving technologies and technology-enabled workflows, using them to enhance creativity, accelerate iteration, and improve production efficiency while maintaining a high level of craft.

Role & Responsibilities

Creative & Conceptual Thinking

• Develop strong visual concepts and design directions across social, campaigns, branding, content, and digital experiences.

• Translate creative and strategic briefs into thoughtful, visually engaging design solutions.

• Contribute ideas, references, mood boards, mock-ups, and presentation-ready creative explorations.

• Bring fresh thinking and contemporary visual culture into the work.

Craft & Execution

• Design high-quality creative across multiple touchpoints including social content, campaign assets, presentations, digital ads, OOH, motion references, and branded experiences.

• Create layouts and visual systems that work across multiple formats, channels, and markets.

• Apply strong typography, composition, colour, motion awareness, and storytelling principles to all work.

• Use AI-powered creative tools and emerging technologies to support ideation, visual exploration, workflow efficiencies, and creative development while maintaining a high standard of craft.

• Apply critical thinking and creative judgement when working with AI-assisted outputs to ensure originality, quality, and brand alignment.

• Maintain pixel-perfect attention to detail from concept through to final delivery.

• Prepare production-ready artwork and collaborate closely with production teams where required.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Art Directors, Creative Directors, Strategists, Copywriters, Motion Designers, and Producers across APAC.

• Collaborate effectively across remote and distributed teams.

• Present design thinking clearly and confidently internally and, when needed, to clients.

• Contribute positively to team culture with curiosity, initiative, and a collaborative mindset.

Systems & Workflow

• Help maintain consistency across brand systems, templates, and campaign rollouts.

• Work efficiently within established workflows while identifying opportunities to improve processes and scalability.

• Explore emerging technologies and evolving workflows to improve both creative output and operational efficiency.

• Balance speed and quality in a high-volume production environment.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience designing for digital, social, campaign, and brand environments within an agency, studio, or creative environment.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, visual craft, and multi-platform execution.

• High proficiency across Figma, Google Slides, and the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

• Comfortable working in collaborative design systems and presentation workflows.

• Understanding of motion, interaction, and social-first design principles.

• Experience designing across integrated campaigns, social content, branding, and digital touchpoints.

• Strong understanding of production workflows and preparing final artwork across digital and print formats.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in fast-paced environments.

• Strong communication and presentation skills with fluent English proficiency.

• Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and emerging technologies such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Veo, Figma AI, or similar platforms.

Nice to Have

• Experience working across APAC markets.

• Automotive, luxury, technology, or lifestyle brand experience.

• Motion design or video editing skills.

• Experience with asset management systems and scalable campaign production workflows.

What We Value

• Strong craft and attention to detail.

• Curiosity and openness to new ways of working.

• Designers who combine creativity with systems thinking.

• Collaborative people who leave ego at the door.

• Creatives who embrace technology-enabled creativity and evolving workflows.

• Individuals who push the quality of the work while helping teams move faster and smarter together.

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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.