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Senior Art Director Role:
As an Art Director for one of the largest automotive companies in the world, you'll work hands-on with copywriters, account managers, creative directors, and strategists to create compelling materials. You're a fast and flexible go-getter who thrives on new opportunities and collaboration. You maintain exceptionally high standards in design and art direction, creating impactful results through your hands-on work. You excel at crafting visually engaging, strategically-informed, and pixel-perfect designs across the account. You bring a progressive creative instinct and positivity, working effectively in teams with a low-ego approach.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute creative work from concept ideation to production, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and innovative deliverables
- Create major deliverables that uphold the highest standards of creative excellence and align with client objectives
- Present work during internal and client reviews, effectively communicating creative vision and elevating brand expression
- Take a hands-on approach in design execution, working directly on projects while collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Execute the conceptual and aesthetic direction of campaigns, asset creation, experiential activations, and design projects
- Excel in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment while maintaining quality and professionalism
- Create engaging content across multiple formats, including videos, static posts, and animations
- Contribute positively to Monks' culture, its people, and its clients
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of hands-on design and art direction experience in advertising and marketing
- Expert proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and collaboration tools
- Experience in automotive and/or production industries preferred
- Strong ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Collaborate effectively with creative leads and copywriters to develop on-brand designs
- Clear communication skills when presenting work to senior leaders and clients
- Creative and analytical thinking capabilities
- Experience implementing brand style guides
- Contribute to creative discussions throughout the project lifecycle
- Strong digital-centric portfolio across multiple formats required
Your Work Style:
- Exceptional attention to detail with focus on pixel-perfect execution
- Self-motivated and adaptable in fast-paced environments
- Efficient at handling quick turnarounds
- Open to feedback and capable of providing alternative solutions
- Excellent at multitasking across projects and brands
- Strong independent work ethic
- Deep technical expertise in creative tools and processes
- Current knowledge of creative trends and technologies
- Commitment to equity, inclusion, and accessibility
Working Conditions:
- The role may involve long hours and tight deadlines, requiring flexibility and a commitment to maintaining high standards under pressure. Collaboration with teams across different locations and time zones is frequently necessary.
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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
$70,000—$76,000 CAD
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.
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Monks is the global, purely digital, data-driven, 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.
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