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Description

Monks is looking for a Creative Director to join our team in Riyadh, KSA. In this role, you’ll lead creative strategy, develop innovative campaigns, underpinned or created by data and insights, and oversee execution for top-tier clients. As a key creative leader, you will navigate multiple clients on the ground, ensuring impactful, culturally relevant work that resonates with audiences in Saudi Arabia. You will also play a critical role in guiding a team of passionate Monks, fostering collaboration, and driving excellence in this rapidly evolving region and digital landscape.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead the development of creative concepts, campaigns, and digital experiences that align with client objectives.
• Lead client conversations around business objectives, business needs, and audiences to ensure not just top notch creative leadership but creative leadership linked to business objectives and KPIs. 
• Oversee the execution of projects from ideation to final delivery, ensuring high-quality output.
• Provide strategic and creative direction across various formats, including social first campaigns and content, agile “real time” execution, scriptwriting, production at scale, and innovative tech led digital experiences.
• Collaborate closely with clients, understanding their needs and delivering solutions that make an impact.
• Conduct creative workshops and presentations, engaging stakeholders at different level both internally and with the clients be it future focused, tech led, or even industry/client focus. 
• Guide and inspire a team of designers, copywriters, and other creatives to push the boundaries of storytelling and execution.
• Navigate the nuances of the Saudi market, ensuring all creative output is culturally relevant and aligned with regional dynamics while also ensuring audiences do go beyond the Kingdom based on client/brief. 
• Build and maintain relationships with global creative leads within the monks. 
• Represent Monks in client meetings, pitches, and industry events.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Creative Director in digital led advertising, marketing, and production at a high level. 2+ years working in the Kingdom expected. 
• Fluent in Arabic and English. Arabic first is key for this role. 
• A deep understanding of Saudi Arabia, its culture, and evolving market trends.
• Proven ability to lead and manage multiple clients and projects simultaneously.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, capable of inspiring teams and building strong client relationships.
• Expertise in digital campaigns, social content, real time data led content, production at scale infused with the power of technology, and human storytelling.
• Ability to craft compelling creative presentations and lead on pitches with clarity and impact.
• Experience working with film directors, designers, animators, data scientists, technologists, and other creative professionals to bring ideas to life.
• Comfortable leading fast-paced projects, from pitching to final execution with craft being of the utmost importance. 
• The understanding (be it client and/or pitch) that the digital first approach need not always require a hero manifesto and video yet focus on impact - innovation and data at the core. 
• A strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to problem-solving and creative development. 
• Familiarity with global creative trends and digital-first storytelling.
• Willingness to own and produce decks, concepts, and a get it done attitude regardless of the title and team capacity where needed. 

This role is an opportunity to shape and reshape the creative landscape in Saudi Arabia while working with a diverse team of talented professionals across local, regional and global offices. If you’re ready to lead, innovate, and make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

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.  

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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.