Associate Creative Director, Art (Gaming/Music)

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• About the Role
• **Must have Gaming/Music Experience**

Our North America office is looking for an experienced, social-first, ACD Art Director to serve as the conceptual co-lead across one of our most exciting, culture-focused accounts. This person will help lead the visual side of social content and help push the aesthetic and conceptual foundation of our work. The most important aspect of this role is that it is social-first. This means this person should be highly adept at social, and should be well-versed and up-to-date in social platforms and their current features and trends. This role requires in-depth knowledge of gaming, music, and the creator/influencer space.

The Associate Creative Director, Art will be a key leader responsible for setting and maintaining the aesthetic vision for the team. Reporting to the Creative Director, this individual will manage visual designers, motion designers, and editors, delegate projects, and provide clear, constructive feedback to ensure all assets meet brand guidelines and our highest standards of creative excellence. The ideal candidate is a social-first creative with on-set experience who can confidently lead a portion of the team. This role requires the ability to travel frequently for productions.

A successful ACD will confidently lead and manage the day-to-day progress of a project from start to finish, brainstorm tactics as well as large campaigns, and mentor junior associates.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and inspire the visual design team, and set the bar for our aesthetic output.
• Manage daily project flow, delegate assignments, and ensure timely delivery of assets.
• Provide sharp, actionable notes on all visual assets.
• Partner with the Creative Director to guide the team's creative vision.
• Concept and oversee the visual direction for campaigns, pitches, and productions.

• Additional Context For The Role:

• In this managerial-level role, you’ll help oversee the design and delivery of social assets across still, motion graphics, and edits, but you’ll also help lead concepting and brainstorming for both always-on work as well as campaigns and productions.
• This role includes travel to productions, and the chance to be on set, so experience being on-the-ground and helping creatively lead social-first shoots is a must
• In this role, you’ll be in direct contact with our client and play a key role in building a prolific partnership. 
• This role will include lots of collaboration with our copywriters. Together, you and our copywriters will help lead a number of frequent brainstorming sessions and opportunities.

About You

The Essentials:

• You are an aesthetic leader, capable of ushering forward creative excellence in deliveries large and small. You love to push visuals and elevate art direction at every possible opportunity.
• Your Adobe skills are untouchable, and you also know how to organize your files, layers and folders and how to wrangle order from the rest of your visual creatives.
• **You love AI! **And you use it and experiment with ways to leverage it for creative output.
• You are social media-obsessed, and have tons of experience making social creative for brands across YT, X, IG, and TT.
• You are experienced in and/or super into music, culture, gaming, and influencers/creators, and would love to work in this space!
• You are well versed in ensuring all assets adhere to current brand guidelines, and comfortable being the last stop before delivery to clients.
• You are a clear communicator and are happy to work with creatives and people from all departments, from all over the world. You are also extremely comfortable presenting internally and to clients.
• You safeguard quality at all times and work with the team to deliver the right files, in the right sizing and aspect ratio, with safe zones and brand guidelines accounted for.
• You look after the execution of the art direction and help to improve the work by proactively offering new ideas, best practices and solutions — guaranteeing work streams are healthy and clients are happy.
• You'll be responsible for delivering a high volume of digital assets.
• You have at least 6+ years experience in an Art Director/design role with 2 of those years in a leadership role
• You're a proven mentor, and look forward to helping others grow
• You are passionate about freelancing and potentially converting to full-time over time!

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.  

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

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$120,000—$140,000 USD

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.