Creative Director

Monks Associates Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital marketing agency in Toronto is seeking a Creative Director to elevate creative expression for major automotive brands. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in creative leadership, with a focus on nurturing diverse teams and driving innovative solutions. This role involves collaborating closely with clients and internal teams to ensure high-quality, impactful work. The position offers a salary range of CAD 140,000 to CAD 150,000 and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• 10+ years global experience in creative leadership.
• Strong desire to build and nurture diverse teams.
• Highly creative with strong visual and design aesthetic.
• Ability to leverage data and research for creative opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative expression for client brands.
• Build strong client relationships and ensure satisfaction.
• Drive innovation and set new industry standards.
• Oversee creation of high-quality, impactful work.

Job description

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About the Role

As Creative Director for one of the largest automotive companies in the world, you'll work with the GCD and ECD on the evolution of all creative and marketing expressions for the brands and sub-brands. You will be collaborating with a team of creative practitioners who develop groundbreaking digital experiences, social campaigns, experiential engagements, assets at scale production, and future innovation opportunities. In practice, this means steering the team towards excellence while also actively participating in hands-on creative development and production. This pivotal position requires you to navigate multiple responsibilities, serving as both creator and supervisor simultaneously. You have exceptionally high standards in your work, elevating craft, inspiring impact in ourselves and our skills. You bring a progressive, creative instinct and bold vision to the work, and you know how to nurture teams and talent to do the best work of their careers. You will always be across multiple projects.

You will work closely with account leadership on how we continue to grow and support our strong relationship with one of the largest automotive companies in the world. Also pivotal to your success in this role is having a strong partnership with the other discipline leads and contributing to an environment of teamwork and mutual understanding. You will need to work collaboratively and inclusively across brand, strategy, product, content and integrated marketing teams through a variety of opportunities while also supporting your ever-growing creative team. Of equal importance is your influencing prowess with clients while ever being humble and adaptable.

Responsibilities :

• Creative Leadership and Accountability :

Partner with the Group Creative Director, and other Creative Directors in elevating creative expression of the client brands to new levels of creative excellence.

Provide creative direction and inspiration to client projects and teams. Guide the conceptual and aesthetic direction of campaigns, experiential or design projects.

Provide input into the allocation of creative resources and talent to ensure optimal team performance and project success.

Comfortable presenting ideas, concepts, using human-centric design practices that also include rationale based on customer research and best practices that keep business outcomes in mind.

Improve accountability across your creative teams through stellar management, building strong morale and cultivating a positive creative environment.

Active contributor for ideation on all projects and pitches for our key client brands.

Client Interaction and Building Trust :

Work closely with multiple senior and day-to-day clients and teams to understand their vision and objectives. Present creative concepts and ideas persuasively. Foster strong relationships with clients, ensuring their needs are met and expectations exceeded.

Participate in potential new business pitches and ongoing organic new business development.

Support and aid the ECD in the development of our creative practice, with a focus on evolving processes in our own ways of working and creation.

Client Strategy and Business Growth :

Work closely with senior business leaders to shape growth strategies for creative services and team up with cross-functional teams to tackle client goals, challenges, and opportunities.

Maintain and manage positive client relationships, serving as a reliable creative ally, and guaranteeing client satisfaction and retention.

Collaborate with clients to devise creative strategies and solutions that align with their business objectives and catalyze results.

Innovation and Creative Process :

Contribute to the creative process from concept ideation to production, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and innovative work. Critique all major deliverables, ensuring they meet our standards. Participates and presents work alongside CDs in Executive Creative Leadership reviews of in-production work.

Drive innovation and creativity, setting new industry standards and ensuring that the company's work is smart, creative, and innovative.

Quality Assurance :

Provide clear, focused, feedback to your creative teams regarding improvements that could be made to the work, the department and the agency.

Oversee the creation of high-quality, impactful work, from campaigns to design to assets at scale to experiential work and more.

Ensures that the work is best-in-class and award worthy.

About You

The essentials :

You have 10+ years global experience working for a wide range of clients and brands, ideally agency and / or on client-side.

You have a strong desire to build and nurture diverse teams and nurture diverse perspectives, empowering the voices that are both close and abroad.

Highly creative and imaginative with a strong visual and design aesthetic.

You inherently understand digital and think way beyond traditional ad formats and budgets, with an exceptional creative background.

Strategic thinker with the ability to connect creative ideas with business objectives.

You are not afraid of leveraging data and research to help identify unique opportunities for the brand and be able to represent creative vision and philosophy.

Ability to think clearly and contribute constructively to discussions and strategy during the entire creative process, from concept through production.

You are self-motivated, hard-working, and work well in a fast-paced environment.

A people first mentality and experience in building a best-in-class global creative team.

Automotive and production experience is highly desired.

Social media experience, knowledge of digital design, and social best practices is preferred.

Self-motivated, resilient and adaptable, able to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

The role may involve long hours and tight deadlines, requiring flexibility and a commitment to maintaining high standards under pressure. Collaboration with teams across different locations and time zones is frequently necessary.

Not a must, but a plus :

Proficient in brand building - adhering to visual guidelines, elevating brand standards, and implementing the brand identity in all creative development.

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws.

What We Offer

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$140,000—$150,000 CAD

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.

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