Senior Art Director

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About You

Monks is seeking a talented and resourceful Senior Art Director to join our creative team. In this vital role, you will create and transform concepts into captivating visuals, establishing the artistic approach for social media posts across a multitude of brands. Your expertise in design, keen eye for detail, and understanding of brand positioning will play a crucial role in shaping our social media presence. If you're passionate about creating compelling visual narratives, we want you to bring your creativity to our team!

Responsibilities:

• In this senior role, you’ll work on the design of social content ideation, & execution for product launches, brand campaigns and always-on the content.
• You’re in direct contact with our client and play a key role in building a prolific partnership representing Monks from a design POV. 
• Pixel perfectness is important. You safeguard quality at all times and work with our designers to create flawless executions. 
• You are all about the detail, not only in bringing your ideas to life visually but ensure that the team are adhering to guidelines and are consistent across ad formats, dimensions and languages.
• You look after the execution of the art direction and help to improve the work by offering new angles, (P)inspiration, best practices and practical solutions — guaranteeing projects meet our standards.
• You are responsible for training the designers and ensuring all documentation and design standards are up to date. 
• You are always on the lookout for process efficiencies.

About You

The Essentials:

• Your Photoshop skills are so slick; they look photoshopped, you also know how to organise your files, layers and folders, even if you’re a creative mess outside of Adobe CS.
• You are familiar with social media formats from FB through to TikTok.
• You are great in Illustrator and photo retouching. 
• You can contribute to different stages of the production process; from setting styles and layouts to cutting formats and language versioning.
• You bring your Arabic touch and market relevant insights to all creative content you produce.
• You are well versed in documenting and enforcing guidelines. 
• You are well-versed in English and Arabic.
• You are a clear communicator and are happy to work with designers from all over the world.

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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.