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About the Role

Media.Monks is looking to expand our creative service capabilities by hiring a full-time Senior UGC Specialist for our Performance Creative team. Reporting to the Associate Director of Creative, you will be a trailblazer helping to expand the UGC offering for a top performance marketing agency.  You will partner with our media team and alongside clients to develop paid ads that drive results.

Our performance creative team generates UGC to drive conversions for our clients. We work with content creators, not  influencers, to produce white-labeled ad concepts for a variety of client types (ecomm, B2C lead gen, DTC, B2B). We don’t churn out content: we develop thoughtful, testing-led concepts with specific learning plans. We don’t depend on ‘gotchas’ or misleading hooks, we uphold the brand standards of our clients and produce high-quality work.

This role’s primary function is to own our UGC production process in full: developing client-specific concepts, talent sourcing, scripting, shot list development, talent kickoffs + coaching, footage review, reshoot requests, and video editing. You will be dedicated to 3-4 high-growth clients.

Responsibilities:

• Proven experience in content creation, with their own portfolio of self-edited UGC (required).
• Expertise in editing to direct-response channel best practices, and can explain why their editing decisions will drive clicks + conversions. 
• Fluency in sound design, adding captions and transitions.

• Experience translating client briefs into direct response UGC concepts.

• Project + process management skills, completing every concept on time and efficiently, with high ATD. Comfortable with multiple projects active at once.

• People skills - able to collaborate with our strategists + producers and confidently coach talent to film top quality content. Not afraid to give feedback and ask for reshoots.

• Proactivity. We’re looking for a self-starter who’s excited to further build our quickly growing UGC offering with their unique perspective.
• Experience in writing authentic scripts as a starting point for creators. Experience crafting shot lists and storyboards to aptly explain your vision to clients, teammates, and talent. Ability to develop and execute hook and variant testing.
• Proven business acumen across a variety of models: ecomm, B2B, lead gen, etc. Experience working with compliance regulated industries (e.g. healthcare, wellness, finance) is a plus.
• Comfortability with and/or willingness to learn performance metrics and performance creative testing strategies.
• Deep knowledge of video editing tools (e.g. CapCut, Adobe Premiere). Experience with Asana and Frame.io is a plus.

About You

The essentials:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience (agency preferred), 2+ of those years in UGC production and editing
• Portfolio is required
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Deep familiarity with what makes compelling short form content
• 4 year college degree (preferably in a related field) or equivalent work experience

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$85,000—$115,000 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.