Responsibilities

• Creative Steward: First and foremost, you will set the tone and the standard of quality for the brands you work on:
• This includes working with the internal brand and strategy team to help set/maintain the tone and vision for the brand.
• This also includes reviewing all the creative work that will ultimately make its way to the client, providing quality control over your team’s output.
• You will ensure that creative projects are delivered on their agreed upon timeline and on budget ensuring commercial success.
• You will lead concept development, with the expectation that you will occasionally need to adopt the mindset of a maker, too.
• You will digest feedback from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring it is actionable for your teams.
• You will oversee nimble projects with art and copy teams, as well as internal filmmakers/content creators and external production partners, ensuring footage captured is of a quality commensurate with the expectation of the agency and the client.
• Specifically: your POV is critical to making the work better and protecting the integrity of ideas.
• You will be expected to present, sell, and speak to the core of an idea, as well as provide support for the work.
• You will be required to help storytell ideas for clients, internal teams and your own creative teams. Your ability to “clean up the idea” is essential to its impact.

Requirements

• Must have at least 2 years experience in an Associate Creative Director or equivalent role including concept development and client contact.
• Conceptual art direction background is preferred, with a well-developed creative point of view and the ability to decisively identify strong ideas and executions.
• Must be social-media obsessed.
• Must have production experience with and an understanding of the production process.
• Must have run teams of 4 or more.
• Must be willing to travel for shoots and productions, up to 20% of the time (most shoots are currently in the LA area).
• Los Angeles-based or within a commutable distance is strongly preferred.

Preferred

• Bilingual English & Spanish is a major plus.
• Experience working in a nimble content creation environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience creating and overseeing both paid and organic social creative is strongly preferred.
• Should be able to steer and collaborate with creatives across disciplines, including writers, content creators, editors, designers, and motion artists.
• Strong design sensibility, with knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography.
• A collaborative mindset, and ability to work closely and create an environment of trust amongst strategic, brand, creative and production partners.
• Ability to translate creative ideas and executions into a sellable idea through deck storytelling and internal and external presentation skills.
• Curiosity or experience with generative AI tools for tasks like presentation visuals is a plus.

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!)