Senior Art Director

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience across art direction, design, branding, campaigns, and digital creative environments.
• Outstanding portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, creative leadership, and exceptional visual craft.
• Proven experience leading integrated campaigns and multidisciplinary creative projects within a fast-paced creative, advertising, or digital agency environment.
• High proficiency across Figma, Google Slides, and the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Deep understanding of digital ecosystems, social-first content, integrated campaign development, and motion-aware storytelling.
• Strong experience presenting creative work to senior stakeholders and clients.
• Ability to lead and mentor creative teams across distributed and remote environments.
• Excellent communication skills with fluent English proficiency.
• Strong understanding of scalable creative systems, workflows, and production processes.
• Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and emerging technologies such as GPT-5, Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Veo, Figma AI, Google Gemini Ecosystem, etc.
• Experience working across APAC markets.
• Lifestyle, luxury, technology, or automotive brand experience.
• Experience in vibe-coding and/or agentic workflow.
• Motion, film, or content production experience.
• Experience leading work across regional or global creative teams.
• What We Value
• Creative leaders who raise the standard of the work and the people around them.
• Individuals who combine conceptual thinking with strong executional craft.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a future-focused mindset.
• Teams that collaborate openly, move quickly, and continuously evolve.
• Creatives who embrace technology-enabled creativity and evolving workflows.
• People who care deeply about quality, culture, innovation, and building great work together.
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• About Monks

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Additional Information

Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website ( monks.com/careers ). Role & Responsibilities Creative Direction & Conceptual Leadership Lead the development of visual concepts, campaign territories, and creative systems across integrated brand and digital experiences. Translate strategic and creative briefs into compelling visual narratives and scalable campaign thinking. Shape and elevate creative work across social, branding, content, motion, digital, and experiential touchpoints. Bring fresh perspectives, cultural relevance, and contemporary creative thinking into every stage of the process. Present and defend creative rationale confidently to clients, stakeholders, and internal teams. Team Leadership & Collaboration Provide creative leadership and mentorship across designers and broader creative teams. Partner closely with Creative Directors, Strategists, Copywriters, Motion Designers, Producers, and Client teams. Help create an environment that encourages experimentation, collaboration, and creative excellence. Guide teams through fast-moving workflows while maintaining clarity, momentum, and high standards. Craft & Execution Maintain exceptional standards across typography, layout, composition, imagery, motion awareness, and storytelling. Oversee creative consistency and quality across multiple formats, channels, and regional adaptations. Ensure ideas are scalable, production-aware, and aligned with brand systems and platform best practices. Champion the thoughtful integration of AI-powered creative tools into concepting, design development, workflow efficiencies, and creative operations. Apply critical and strategic thinking when evaluating AI-assisted outputs, emerging technologies, and evolving creative workflows. Contribute hands-on to concept development, visual exploration, presentations, and key executions where needed. Systems, Process & Innovation Identify opportunities to improve workflows, systems, and creative scalability across projects and teams. Help shape best practices around modern creative production and distributed collaboration. Explore emerging technologies and evolving workflows that improve both creative quality and operational efficiency. Balance creativity, speed, and operational efficiency within high-volume environments.

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