Senior Designer

Monks; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 65,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Monks is seeking a Senior Designer to shape the visual expression for a leading consumer brand across social, film, activations, and presentations. You’ll translate ideas into cohesive design across organic and paid content, motion, and brand touchpoints.

Reporting to a Design Director, you’ll collaborate with Creative Directors and cross-functional teams to develop visual language, craft mood boards, and build scalable design systems while mentoring junior designers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in graphic design, brand design, advertising, social content, or an equivalent portfolio.
• Strong portfolio showing craft across social content, campaigns, brand systems, presentations, and motion boards.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma as primary design/collaboration tool.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Illustrator) within a Figma workflow.
• Strong typography, composition, hierarchy, color, and visual storytelling.
• Ability to translate established or partial concepts into distinctive visual approaches.
• Fluency in designing for social platforms with mobile-first composition and accessibility.
• Ability to design for motion through style frames, storyboards, sequencing and pacing.
• Up-to-date sense of contemporary design, youth culture, and emerging visual styles.
• Strong organization, communication, and autonomous work style.

Responsibilities

• Translate established concepts into distinctive visual directions with Creative Directors and teams.
• Design across organic/paid social, product launches, campaigns, film, activations, and presentations.
• Develop mood boards, mockups, prototypes, and presentation materials within a direction.
• Create concept art using Generative AI to refine visuals for teams.
• Build cohesive, scalable visual systems across formats and outputs.
• Design for social platforms, prioritizing readability, hierarchy, and mobile-first layouts.
• Create motion concepts, storyboards, and layouts to guide motion teams.
• Maintain craft in typography, color, image selection, and composition across campaigns.
• Mentor junior designers and manage multiple projects with clear communication.

Skills

Graphic design

Brand design

Social content

Motion design

Typography

Design systems

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Adobe Photoshop

Illustrator

After Effects

Job description

Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website (monks.com/careers).

About the Role

As a Senior Designer, you’ll help shape the visual expression of one of the country’s most recognizable consumer communications brands across its fast-moving social and content business. You’ll take established creative ideas and campaign directions and turn them into compelling, cohesive design across organic and paid social, film, experiential activations, presentations, motion content, and other brand touchpoints.

Reporting to a Design Director, you’ll work directly with Creative Directors and multidisciplinary creative teams to develop the visual language of an idea and carry it through detailed execution. We’re looking for a detailed, versatile, and highly skilled designer who can quickly understand the intention behind an idea, identify the strongest visual approach, and help the brand remain distinctive, culture-forward, and cohesive across a high volume of work.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Elevate the Visual Direction: Translate established or partially developed creative concepts into distinctive visual approaches, working with Creative Directors and creative teams to determine how an idea should look, behave, and scale.
• Create Across Social and Content: Design work across organic and paid social, product launches, campaign extensions, film, experiential activations, presentations, and platform-native content.
• Explore and Communicate Design Solutions: Develop mood boards, style explorations, mockups, prototypes, and presentation materials that clearly communicate a range of visual possibilities within an established creative direction.
• Create Concept Art with Generative AI: Use generative image tools to create and refine concept art, visual references, mockups, and presentation imagery that help teams communicate and evaluate ideas before production.
• Build Cohesive Design Systems: Create flexible visual systems that remain consistent and recognizable across formats, products, audiences, and workstreams.
• Design for Social: Create work for how people experience content and advertising across social platforms, considering hierarchy, stopping power, readability, mobile-first composition, platform conventions, and the broader feed.
• Concept and Design for Motion: Develop motion concepts, style frames, storyboards, sequences, transitions, and layouts that clearly communicate how an idea should unfold over time. Provide motion designers and editors with a strong foundation without being expected to animate the work yourself.
• Maintain a High Bar for Craft: Bring strong typography, composition, color, image selection, hierarchy, and attention to detail to both larger campaigns and fast-turn, always-on assignments.
• Stay Close to Culture: Maintain an informed point of view on youth culture, internet culture, and emerging visual styles, translating those influences into original and brand-appropriate work rather than simply replicating trends.
• Mentor and Take Ownership: Provide thoughtful guidance to less-experienced designers while managing multiple assignments and changing priorities with strong organization, dependable communication, and autonomy.

About You

The essentials:

• 5+ years of experience in graphic design, brand design, advertising, social content, or an equivalent portfolio that demonstrates the same depth of ability.
• A strong portfolio showing exceptional design craft across social content, campaigns, brand systems, presentations, and motion boards.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma as a primary design and collaboration platform, with the ability to build organized and scalable files and systems.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator, as supporting tools within a Figma-based workflow.
• A sophisticated understanding of typography, composition, hierarchy, color, grid systems, image selection, and visual storytelling.
• The ability to take an established or partially developed creative idea and translate it into a distinctive, cohesive, and scalable visual approach.
• Fluency in designing for social platforms, including an understanding of platform behavior, mobile-first composition, accessibility, and how design can earn attention quickly.
• The ability to concept and design for motion through style frames, storyboards, sequencing, pacing, transitions, and layouts that clearly communicate the intended execution.
• A current and informed point of view on contemporary design, youth culture, internet culture, fashion, entertainment, and emerging visual styles.
• Strong organization, communication, and visual problem-solving skills, with the ability to work autonomously, respond constructively to feedback, and manage several fast-moving projects at once.
• A low-ego, collaborative working style and experience providing useful guidance or mentorship to less-experienced designers.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Experience using generative AI image tools for concept art, visual development, mockups, and presentation decks, with the taste and technical judgment to direct and refine the results.
• Advanced Photoshop skills, particularly image retouching, compositing, and color correction.
• Hands-on motion design or animation skills, including experience with Adobe After Effects.
• Experience with 3D design, illustration, photography, or other complementary visual disciplines.

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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.

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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

$70,000 — $83,000 CAD

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

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.