Description

MediaMonks got our start in 2001, and since then we've grown a lot. With offices all around the globe and around 4,000+ employees, we deliver A-level work that's won hundreds of Cannes Lions and FWAs. We are leading the way in building integrated teams to bring a full suite of best-in-class offerings to world-renowned companies. We're talking big. We accomplish amazing work through our people, by remaining agile and executing exemplary work in real-time for our global clients.

Our work is bundled by teams, not by organizational layers. But it's not all work. Everyone at MediaMonks knows how to have a good time, and everyone contributes to the positive energy of our culture. If you're intrigued, read on as we may have the dream job for you.

Now, about the opportunity: MediaMonks is on the lookout for a designer, communicator, collaborator, and problem solver who can deliver end-to-end design across multimedia types, screens, formats, and technologies. Our ideal candidate is passionate and driven, with an eye for detail and a blend of creative and technical production skills.

This position will work closely with fellow designers and cross-functional teams to design, create, and maintain the visual experience of curated content for social, digital, and offline formats.

The Art Designer is responsible for researching, crafting, and executing conceptual designs based on creative briefs and partnerships with the editorial, social, and business teams. You will be expected to move fluidly between creating first-class visual solutions and sourcing photography or illustration.

Role & Responsibilities

• You're a design thinker as much as a crafter. You understand cultures, you're open to new experiences and you're a tastemaker with impeccable and progressive aesthetics.
• You're confident with your creative thinking, you ask questions, you contribute to the overall creative process, and make work better through positive collaboration.
• In this role, you'll wear many hats, you have experience and specialize in creating interactive platform projects, crafting digital marketing assets for a wide variety of channels, and designing meaningful UI for products.
• You'll be responsible for elevating the craft for some of the world's most beloved brands, you make sure that designs are awesome and in line with expectations.
• You'll help to translate creative/client briefs into thorough design briefs.
• You go above and beyond the brief to push what's possible when it comes to design opportunities and aesthetics.
• You'll help to ideate and create style proposals, sketches, and mockups to kickstart new projects and win pitches.
• For some projects, you set the style; for others, you help safeguard predefined styles.

Requirements:

• You're a technically skilled designer with 3+ years of experience as a designer or art director crafting digital designs and advertising materials
• As showcased in your portfolio, not only are your Photoshop skills so slick, they look shopped, but your design thinking gets them talking.
• You're a master of Figma / Sketch.
• You're a great collaborator and enjoy working with clients and colleagues around the world. You have strong communication skills.
• You have experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualizing to designing layouts and quality assurance when working with the production team when rolling out different formats across markets.
• You're a tastemaker and have a strong design sensibility.
• You have a solid understanding and fundamentals such as typography, grid system, interaction design, flow, storytelling, and design system, you can get teams to improve the work conceptually, aesthetically, and functionally.
• You're confident to present designs to colleagues and clients alike.
• Fluent English

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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 (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). 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 (2021-24), 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.

While we continue to grow our teams, please be mindful of fraudulent job postings and recruiting activities that may use our company name and information. Please be mindful to protect your personal information, especially your national identification number, and bank account information during a recruiting process. While Monks may reach out to potential candidates via LinkedIn, we will always ask applicants to apply through our website ( https://monks.com/careers ) and will never ask for payment or bank account information during the recruitment process.