Senior Art Director

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Senior Art Director

As a Senior Art Director for one of the largest automotive companies in the world, you’ll lead and inspire visual storytelling by combining deep design expertise with strategic thinking. You’ll partner with copywriters, account managers, creative directors, strategists, and fellow designers to craft compelling, high-impact work across a wide range of formats. A fast and flexible go-getter, you thrive on new opportunities and possess a natural aptitude for collaboration. You maintain exceptionally high standards, elevating the craft of design, visual systems, and art direction, and inspire both yourself and your team to deliver outstanding, on-brand creative solutions.

Your role demands a refined design sensibility, fluency in design principles (typography, layout, color, motion), and a deep understanding of how to bring brand identities to life across digital and physical touchpoints. You’re equally comfortable developing holistic design systems as you are executing pixel-perfect assets. You know how to push visual boundaries while maintaining usability, accessibility, and business impact.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the visual development of campaigns and projects from concept to execution, ensuring design integrity and brand consistency throughout all deliverables.
Shape and uphold high standards of creative excellence, with a keen eye for design craft, visual storytelling, and brand coherence.
Confidently present design thinking and creative solutions alongside Creative Directors, clearly articulating design rationale to internal teams and clients.
Guide junior designers and external vendors, delivering thoughtful, constructive feedback that sharpens design outcomes and enhances team growth.
Translate brand strategy into compelling visual narratives, motion assets, and integrated campaigns with an eye for detail, hierarchy, and clarity.
Collaborate with UX, motion, and production teams to create cohesive, multi-format design systems across websites, social media, OOH, and experiential activations.
Develop and maintain brand guidelines and visual toolkits, ensuring scalability across global markets and platforms.
Push the creative envelope with bold, innovative design solutions that are grounded in strategic goals and audience insights.
Maintain a hands-on design approach when needed—proficiently building high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and final assets across platforms.
Stay up-to-date with emerging design trends, tools, and cultural shifts to ensure work remains relevant, progressive, and competitive.

Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience in graphic design and art direction within advertising, digital marketing, or branding agencies.
A portfolio that showcases exceptional design craft, versatility across media, and the ability to bring bold concepts to life with clarity and style.
Demonstrated ability to lead the visual direction of large-scale campaigns, digital products, and content series with consistency and creativity.
Fluent in core design principles—composition, color theory, typography, grid systems, motion, and interaction design.
Experience developing comprehensive brand identity systems and visual standards for integrated campaigns.
Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma, and collaborative tools like Slack, Miro, and Google Workspace.
Comfortable working within and evolving existing brand guidelines to ensure freshness and alignment.
Experience in the automotive or production industries is highly desired.
Strong understanding of responsive design and digital best practices (social, mobile, web).
Able to thoughtfully present and defend design decisions to internal and external stakeholders with strategic clarity.

Your Work Style

Exceptionally detail-oriented with a passion for high-quality, polished output.
Highly organized and proactive, able to manage timelines while balancing multiple priorities.
Naturally collaborative and receptive to feedback, with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrates leadership through mentorship, guidance, and a commitment to creative excellence.
Constantly seeking inspiration, growth, and innovation to keep your design approach fresh and contemporary.
Brings a low-ego, high-output mindset that fosters a healthy, inclusive, and inspiring creative culture.

Your Work Style

Exceptionally detail-oriented with a passion for high-quality, polished output.
Highly organized and proactive, able to manage timelines while balancing multiple priorities.
Naturally collaborative and receptive to feedback, with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrates leadership through mentorship, guidance, and a commitment to creative excellence.
Constantly seeking inspiration, growth, and innovation to keep your design approach fresh and contemporary.
Brings a low-ego, high-output mindset that fosters a healthy, inclusive, and inspiring creative culture.

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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.