Design Director

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About The Role
We're looking for a
Design Director
to lead and elevate our visual output across digital, social, and brand experiences. This role blends creativity, leadership, and innovation — overseeing a talented team of
graphic designers and motion designers
while driving the strategic and aesthetic direction of all design deliverables.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on creative leader with a sharp eye for detail, deep understanding of brand storytelling, and a progressive view of how
AI tools
can enhance creative workflows. You'll be responsible for ensuring the studio consistently delivers high-quality, on-brand, and future-forward design work.

Key Responsibilities
Creative Leadership & Oversight

• Lead concept development and visual direction across campaigns, digital platforms, and brand identities.
• Translate brand and social strategies into distinctive and effective design systems.
• Review and approve creative outputs, ensuring excellence in craft and consistency across channels.
• Partner closely with creative, strategy, and production leads to align design vision with business and brand goals.

Team Management & Mentorship

• Manage, inspire, and grow a multidisciplinary design team of graphic and motion designers.
• Set clear expectations, provide constructive feedback, and create an environment that promotes experimentation and creative growth.
• Oversee team scheduling and resourcing to ensure efficient delivery without compromising quality.

Innovation & AI-Driven Workflows

• Champion new design technologies and workflows that integrate AI-generated content, image generation, and automation tools (e.g., Midjourney, Runway, Firefly, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT-based ideation).
• Establish best practices for AI-assisted design processes that enhance speed, consistency, and originality.
• Collaborate with the innovation and tech teams to continuously refine creative tools and pipelines.

Quality Assurance & Delivery

• Ensure all work meets brand standards and technical specifications before delivery.
• Maintain a balance between creative innovation and practical execution under tight deadlines.
• Uphold the highest standards of design integrity across all outputs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in design leadership roles within digital, creative, or integrated marketing agencies.
• Proven experience managing creative teams and overseeing a diverse portfolio of digital and motion projects.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and motion design tools (After Effects, Cinema 4D or equivalent).
• Advanced knowledge of AI design tools and integration of generative content workflows into design production.
• Strong conceptual and visual storytelling ability with a meticulous sense of aesthetics and detail.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills — able to articulate design rationale clearly to both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• A collaborative spirit, strategic mindset, and genuine curiosity for emerging design trends and technologies.

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 , ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year 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 , 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.