Art Director

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and elevate the studio's creative direction across pitches, campaigns, and client work by translating briefs into distinctive visual storytelling, ensuring consistency, quality, and responsible integration of AI into the craft.

  • Art direction across pitches, agency projects, and social/print assets with a strong storytelling focus.
  • Maintain a single visual language, typography, color, and layout across campaigns while pushing creative boundaries.
  • Collaborate to interpret briefs, present concepts to clients, and guide 360° team ideas into polished executions.

Job Description

Own and elevate the studio's creative direction across pitches, campaigns, and client work by translating briefs into distinctive visual storytelling, ensuring consistency, quality, and responsible integration of AI into the craft.

  • Lead art direction for various projects, including pitches and agency clients for social media and print production.
  • Collaborate with team members to take and interpret creative briefs.
  • Present creative ideas and concepts to clients and stakeholders.
  • Assist in implementing the creative ideas of the 360° team, ensuring visual identity authenticity.
  • Create style proposals, sketches, and mockups to initiate new projects and pitches.
  • Elevate the quality of design through collaboration, bringing storytelling to life via motion and interactive elements.
  • Ensure designs align with client expectations and push the boundaries of creativity.
  • Maintain and evolve a consistent visual language across campaigns, with meticulous attention to typography, hierarchy, colour, and composition.
  • Champion design quality and craft across all deliverables, setting a high bar for execution and inspiring the broader team to do the same.
  • Actively explore and integrate emerging AI tools into creative workflows, sharing learnings with the wider team and helping define how the studio uses AI responsibly and creatively.
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Monks

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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)
25

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