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Monks is looking for a Senior Art Director to take the lead in thinking up digital ads and assets for awesome brands. The position is all about harmonizing speed, style and scale to produce loads of good-looking assets at a steady pace.

Role & Responsibilities

• You’ll create style proposals, sketches, mockups and prototypes to kickstart the design for products, features and new campaigns.
• Working for the world’s most beloved brands, you’ll make sure designs are awesome and in line with expectations.
• You’ll look after the execution of the art direction and help to improve the work by offering new angles, inspiration, best practices and practical solutions.
• You’ll help translate creative/client briefs into thorough design briefs.
• Pixel perfectness is important, so you’ll safeguard quality at all times.
• Working alongside the Creative Director and the team, you’ll make sure our designs and processes are in line with the client’s objectives and expectations.
• You will present ideas to the client, with whom you need to create a very good relationship and advise him on his aesthetic decisions on the project.

Requirements

• You’re a technically skilled designer with 6+ years of high-level experience as senior designer or art director crafting digital ads and assets.
• As showcased in your portfolio, your Photoshop skills are super slick.
• You’ll need to have strong English communication skills for working with clients and colleagues around the world.
• You have experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualizing styles to finalizing layouts and rolling out designs across markets and formats.
• Creating balanced and beautiful layouts is second nature to you.
• You also know a thing or two about templating and process optimizations.
• With an understanding of fundamentals such as typography, interaction design, flow and storytelling, you can get teams to improve the work on both an aesthetic and functional level.
• You’re able to visually conceptualize ideas from the ground up, thinking through campaigns from the initial brief to full execution, ensuring a strong and cohesive creative direction throughout.
• You know how to sell designs to colleagues and clients alike, and ideally have some experience doing client presentations.
• You need to have Advanced English both written and spoken
• You’re comfortable integrating AI-powered generation tools into your creative workflow, and you have knowledge of or strong interest in exploring artificial intelligence tools to enhance ideation, production and scalability.

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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.