Chief Creative Officer

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$360K/yr – $400K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and elevate the creative vision for .monks in North America while leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver bold, strategic work and shaping pitch-winning campaigns with cross-functional partners.

  • Lead creative vision and strategy across disciplines
  • Mentor teams and present work publicly
  • Collaborate with leadership to drive transformative campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and elevate the creative vision for .monks in North America.
  • Inspire and mentor multi-disciplinary creative teams, ensuring work is bold, strategic, and beautifully executed.
  • Partner closely with leadership across disciplines—strategy, production, account, and operations—to shape pitch-winning ideas and transformative campaigns.
  • Be an active face of .monks creatively—presenting work, pitching, and representing us publicly.
  • Help architect the next era of .monks: creative at the center, collaboration at its core.

Requirements

  • 15+ years in creative leadership roles, with 5+ years as CCO or equivalent.
  • A portfolio of culturally significant work and big brand campaigns that have moved business and earned accolades.
  • Experience across brand, digital, social, content, and experiential—demonstrating breadth and depth of thinking.
  • Strong business acumen, with an understanding of how to build creative that works as hard as it inspires.
  • A people-first approach that builds trust and confidence in rooms of clients, colleagues, and collaborators.
  • Bonus if you’ve helped shape creative departments at a high-growth or global agency.

Preferred

  • Bonus if you’ve helped shape creative departments at a high-growth or global agency.

Benefits

  • Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!
  • 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!)
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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. It delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Founded in 1985
London, England, GB
6.9K employees (2,903 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
199.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$101.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.6%
Direct
42.3%
Referral
7.8%
Social
9.4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,551 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
3.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
36

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