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.
• Client relationship management: while not everyone’s cup of tea, it’s the relationship that builds the trust. As a CD, you’re expected to be comfortable interacting with clients, and owning and growing the relationship.
• 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.
• Talent development, recruitment and retention: Participating in and leading hiring decisions on team creative candidates, taking into consideration the department/agency’s needs and growth potential.

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. You have deep love and knowledge of trends, platforms, best practices, and the best work happening right now. You should have your finger on the pulse of creative culture, and have a deep bench of reference from all different sources that could help inspire creative avenues.
• 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!)