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About the Role

At Monks, Associate Creative Directors are one part support workers, one part supervisors. They assist Creative Directors with creative direction, organizing the narrative around ideas and function as a working teammate. ACDs will supervise teams and staff on multiple projects. The Associate Creative Director is a leader in their group, a creative juggernaut, and an air traffic controller all in one.  

Responsibilities:

• Concepts: ACDs will work alongside the Creative Director to develop concepts and directions for creative ideas, campaigns, executions and positioning. This will require them to make conceptual and stylistic decisions. Creating comps, ad lobs and prototypes may be required to illustrate their idea to other members of the team or management. This work can be done in conjunction with teams they are delegating to or working with. 
• Managing Projects: Oversee multiple projects at once. This will include managing creative teams, abiding by timelines, overseeing direction, ensuring all deadlines are met. They will also act as quality control for their projects by reviewing and editing their team’s work before it is seen by the larger agency group or clients.
  Client Presentations & Presentations: The ACD’s management of any given project gives them the best purview to craft the initial story around how an idea is sold to clients. It’s expected that the ACD will organize the work coming in from teams and create presentation decks for review both with those teams and their managers.
• Staying Curious: ACDs are muses as much as they are teachers. Staying up on the latest trends and social media fads is important for them to help guide the conversation with their teams, but it’s only the start. An encyclopedic knowledge of all sorts of influences will make your work more effective. You should demonstrate curiosity for the world and the things people create within it, whether it's a new platform, a TikTok, art, music, film, lit, greatest hits of advertising, or new, emerging thought leadership on media, tech, and creativity. To best serve their team,  ACDs should continually dig into strategies, platforms, and technologies that might serve our creative goals.. 

About You

The essentials:

• 5+ years experience in the creative field with some experience managing teams, managing up, managing projects, and working production.
• A well-developed creative point of view, and the ability to identify strong ideas and executions.
• Patient and detail-oriented
• Collaborative with strategic, brand, creative and production partners
• Finger on the pulse of creative cultures and technologies.
• Virtuoso knowledge of their own discipline, with a cursory knowledge of those that fall outside.
• The ability to translate ideas for internal teams or clients, through decks and presentations.
• Ability to lead projects from concept to completion.
• Be an inspirational leader with the ability to guide diverse teams.
• Proven track record in creating excellent work. Proof of ability to develop great ideas and up-level the work with their craft.

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.  

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• 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!)

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$117,000—$160,000 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.