Associate Creative Director (Copywriter)

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Monks is looking for a well rounded, experienced Associate Creative Director with an copywriting background ready to get their hands dirty, lead projects, concept, and pitch for one of the world’s most beloved brands in our Mexico City office.  

Role & Responsibilities

• Working as part of a dedicated unit within Monks, you’ll be in a unique position to lead creative processes and pitches across the entire account, taking on campaigns and projects big and small.
• You will partner with your creative counterparts to direct creative, design and concepts across teams and time zones.
• You’ll be presenting to the client in person and through video calls, pitching new projects and proposals for production. 
• From establishing brand worlds to defining the concepts and copys for interactive campaigns, websites, content and social media, you will be responsible for the conception, creation and execution of high-stakes projects. 
• You go above and beyond the original brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level, even under tight deadlines. 
• You’ll translate briefs from various clients into digestible roadmaps for creative exploration.
• Combining creative art direction with critical thinking; your analytical approach enables you to ask the right questions and waterproof ideas from both a strategic and conceptual perspective.
• You’ll produce creative proposals, mockups and decks to kickstart new campaigns.
• You help to make sure all work is conceptually in line with the campaign’s objectives and client expectations.

Requirements

• For this lead position, we’re looking for an Associate Creative Director with 6-8 years of professional experience, with 2+ years of high-level experience, leading creative teams in an advertising or production agency setting. 
• While we are looking for a candidate with strong roots in copywriting, our ideal unicorn candidate also has a strong background and eye for concept creating and copy.
• You’re able to present a portfolio of praise-worthy projects, showcasing your understanding of innovative tech trends, PR-able ideas, and campaigns. 
• You can successfully ideate and pitch your ideas in a digestible, understandable format. 
• As part of a constructive feedback loop, you can give and handle criticism without making or taking it personally, eagerly going the extra mile if that’s what it takes to make good great.
• You are humble enough to always listen and learn from clients and teammates.
• You know how to empower and lead without a show of force, giving our in-house teams a clear creative direction and ownership over their projects.
• As part of a global company operating as one team across time zones, you can successfully collaborate at a distance.
• You know how to maintain a positive vibe and inspire people to get things done, wherever they are in the world.
• You have the ability and stamina to tackle the same challenge from a wide variety of angles.
• You can produce concepts from scratch and enhance ideas provided by clients and colleagues.
• You’re a team player with leadership skills: you can keep a cool head when things get heated and are great at dealing with (stressed-out) clients and coworkers.
• You know how to maintain a positive vibe and inspire people to get things done, wherever they are in the world.
• Advanced English

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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.