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About the Role

As a SVP, Performance Creative, you’ll lead a team of 35 and growing across creative production, animation and design, creative strategy, and commerce content who have earned a number of high-profile award wins from The Drum, Digiday, and Meta for their work. Bonus points for experience leading influencer campaigns and UGC-style advertising for performance advertisers. This role is a senior leadership position within Monks’ Performance Media division. Reporting to the EVP of Digital Media over the Mid-Market Performance team, you’ll partner with other leaders, including the SVP, Digital Strategy, and media channel leads, to elevate and evolve the creative impact for our largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative clients. You will be accountable for creative excellence, executive client relationships, full-funnel creative leadership, and for advancing Monks’ reputation as a pioneer in performance-driven content and storytelling.

Our ideal candidate is part creative visionary, part data-driven marketer: a leader who merges innovative thinking with proven expertise in high-volume digital creative, brand storytelling, and audience-first strategies. You relish partnering with C-Suite leaders and internal teams to set new standards in the intersection of creativity, technology, and measurable business gains. You are passionate about harnessing data and insights to power creativity at scale, mobilizing cross-disciplinary teams and next-gen tooling to elevate the effectiveness and efficiency of every asset and campaign. You thrive in driving creative culture, team scaling, and executional excellence at the intersection of media, data, and content.

Responsibilities:

• Creative & Strategic Leadership
  • Lead the vision and strategy for the Performance Creative unit of our Media team, innovating on full-funnel, insight-driven creative assets that deliver measurable results. 
  • Guide clients and teams through the dynamic landscape of creative innovation for paid social, display, video, UGC, influencer content, and emerging platforms.
  • Leverage creative testing frameworks, audience insights, and performance analytics to inform ideation, production, iteration, and optimization processes.
  • Advise clients on the integration and scaling of generative AI, automation, and technology in creative production and operations.
  • Drive adoption of cutting-edge technologies and AI tools to optimize creative operations and output.
  • Partner with brand and growth teams to develop foundational stories, rapid tests, and breakthrough campaigns across channels.
  • Provide a point of view on leading topics such as UGC, creative automation, global content production, and scaling impact for growth brands.
  • Stay ahead of digital, media, and content trends, ensuring Monks’ creative output sets the industry standard.
  • Oversee creative resourcing, processes, and playbooks to maximize internal efficiency, creative quality, and revenue growth.
  • Serve as Executive Sponsor for some of our largest performance-driven client accounts, providing strategic creative direction at the highest levels.
    

• Internal Agency Operations
  • Oversee staffing, structure, and scalable processes for a rapidly growing creative team, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture.
  • Own creative P&L, revenue, and client retention responsibilities for performance creative accounts.
  • Create and evolve frameworks and playbooks to standardize creative production, QA, and measurement, maximizing efficiency and creative impact.
    
• Commercial Strategy
  • Own the productization, delivery, and pricing strategy for Performance Creative and related services.
  • Define the positioning and go-to-market messaging for Performance Creative.
  • Participate in new business discovery, pitching, and scoping for Performance Creative engagements.
  • Develop, adopt, and integrate new creative technologies, solutions, and platforms into the Monks offering.
  • Promote Performance Creative within the context of Monks’ larger go-to-market strategy on stage, in the press, and on social media, generating net new interest in services.
    

About You

The essentials:

• 10+ years in creative leadership, specifically in performance, digital, or growth marketing settings (agency experience strongly preferred).
• 5+ years leading multidisciplinary creative teams with direct client-facing and account ownership responsibilities.
• Deep expertise in producing, optimizing, and scaling creative for paid social, display, video, and new digital channels.
• A portfolio of high-performing, data-powered creative work for leading performance advertisers, with measurable business results.
• Proven record of designing and deploying creative strategies that drive measurable business outcomes for major growth brands.
• Deep experience integrating creative strategy with performance data, analytics, and media teams.
• Comfortable presenting creative strategy and results to C-Suite and executive-level audiences.
• Demonstrated success owning P&L and delivering for both eCommerce and B2B clients.
• Advanced fluency with creative measurement, testing frameworks, digital production pipelines, and collaborative technologies.
  
• Relationships with senior marketers at ambitious growth brands.
• Familiarity with creative for e-commerce, B2B, mobile-app, and DTC environments.
• Point of view and hands-on experience with AI-driven creative, dynamic content, and emerging digital production models.
• Strategic vision and experience implementing high-level strategy by creating go-to-market narratives, developing scalable processes, and building teams.
• Willingness to travel for key client and team meetings (up to 10%).
  

Not a must, but a plus:

• Point of view and hands-on experience with AI-driven creative, dynamic content, and emerging digital production models.
• Comfort driving change - both with clients and internal creative/production teams.

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$220,000—$260,000 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.