Senior Art Director

What You'll Do

• Concept and art direct integrated campaigns across digital, social, OOH, and content in general.
• Partner with a copywriter, creatives, designers and producers from first idea through final delivery
• Own the visual craft: layout, typography, composition, colour, motion, and photography.
• Since the team works with both Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, you must be fluent.
• Present and defend work directly to international clients on calls, and in the room
• Build campaign toolkits and design systems that hold up when adapted across markets, languages, and formats
• Design and maintain AI-assisted production workflows for the team from concepting and pre-viz to asset variation and versioning at scale
• Keep quality control tight on AI-generated output: rights, brand safety, model bias, artefacts, and consistency

What You'll Bring

Agency Experience 5+ Years

Minimum five years as an Art Director (or equivalent) inside an advertising or creative agency. You know how agency life actually works: briefs that change, internal reviews, client feedback rounds, and delivery deadlines that don't move.

Genuine International Client Experience

This one matters, so we'll be specific: we're looking for someone who has worked directly with an international client team, a brand headquartered or managed outside your own market, with stakeholders in another country.

Servicing the domestic branch of a global brand does not count for this requirement. We want someone used to global brand guardians, regional stakeholders, multi-market rollouts, and the specific rhythm of working with people you've mostly never met in person.

Spoken English Fluency

Fluent, confident spoken English not just written. You should be comfortable presenting concepts, taking live feedback, disagreeing productively, and running a workshop with a client on the other side of the world. Comfort working across timezones is expected.

AI Fluency Generative and Pipeline

Non-negotiable, and we mean genuine working fluency, not "I've tried a few prompts."

Generative:

• Strong hands-on command of image and video generation tools
• Prompt craft as an actual skill you can get to a specific result on purpose, not by accident
• Character, product, and style consistency across a campaign's worth of assets

Pipeline / Workflow:

• Experience building node-based or chained workflows (ComfyUI or similar) rather than only using consumer interfaces
• Custom model work: Fine-tuning for brand, product, or character consistency
• Automating repetitive production batch variation, resizing, versioning, localisation via workflow tools or APIs
• A point of view on where AI belongs in the creative process and, more importantly, where it doesn't

Portfolio

A portfolio that shows strategic thinking and craft, not just execution. Please include at least one case with international client involvement, and be ready to walk us through one AI-assisted workflow you built.

Nice to Have

• Motion, 3D, or real-time tooling (After Effects, Blender, Cinema4D, Unreal)
• Basic scripting or comfort with APIs
• Awards recognition, though we're more interested in the work than the metal

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About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.
This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It 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 (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, 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.