Art Director

Firewood Marketing, Inc.; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks is seeking an Art Director to lead a client asset production team, elevating work across design, motion, digital, print, and AI-enabled disciplines. You’ll collaborate with the Creative Head of Studio and specialists to craft high-impact campaigns and adaptive content.

As a hands-on leader, you will guide craft, refine concepts, and push projects from ideation to final execution, ensuring brand consistency across markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in art direction or multidisciplinary creative roles.
• Strong portfolio across brand campaigns, digital experiences, and integrated work.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and contributing directly to production.
• Solid typography, composition, layout, and visual hierarchy skills.
• Experience adapting global creative for local audiences while keeping brand consistency.
• Strong communication and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI creative tools to accelerate ideation and production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative execution of campaigns, adaptive content, and always-on work across channels and markets.
• Provide day-to-day creative direction with feedback across design, motion, digital, print, and emerging media.
• Partner with the Creative Head of Studio to translate brand ideas into standout executions.
• Work hands-on in Figma and AI tools to refine layouts and elevate craft.
• Jump into projects to solve creative challenges and improve work quality.
• Guide adaptation of global creative for local audiences while maintaining brand integrity.

Skills

Art direction

Creative leadership

Typography

Layout & composition

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

AI tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

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Description

Monks is seeking an Art Director to join a client asset production team. This is a hands‑on creative lead role responsible for elevating the quality of work across a multidisciplinary maker team, spanning design, motion, animation, digital, print, and emerging creative disciplines.

Working closely with the Creative Head of Studio, designers, animators, editors, producers, AI specialists, and local market teams, the Art Director leads through craft—offering thoughtful feedback, refining ideas, and jumping into the work whenever needed to raise the creative bar. Comfortable working across both traditional and AI‑enabled creative workflows, they understand how emerging tools can accelerate ideation, execution, and creative exploration.

The ideal candidate is a maker first: someone with exceptional design fundamentals, strong creative instincts, and the ability to bring out the best in both the work and the people creating it.

The Lowdown

• Lead the creative execution of campaigns, adaptive content, and always‑on communications across multiple channels and markets.
• Provide day‑to‑day creative direction and feedback across a multidisciplinary team, including design, motion, animation, digital, print, and emerging media.
• Partner with the Creative Head of Studio to translate brand platforms and campaign ideas into exceptional creative execution.
• Work hands‑on in Figma, AI creative tools, and other design platforms to refine layouts, evolve concepts, improve visual storytelling, and elevate overall craft.
• Jump into projects whenever needed to solve creative challenges, unblock teams, and improve the quality of the work.
• Guide the adaptation of global creative into culturally relevant executions while maintaining brand integrity.
• Elevate the quality of creative work through thoughtful feedback, hands‑on collaboration, and strong creative judgment.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Strategy, Operations, Account, and Localization teams to deliver outstanding work efficiently and at scale.
• Help evolve creative templates, design resources, and best practices that support consistent, high‑quality execution.
• Embrace emerging technologies, including AI‑enabled tools, where they enhance the creative process and improve efficiency.

Scope

• Operates within the local creative team and serves as the primary creative craft enhancer lead for a multidisciplinary maker team.
• Partners closely with the Creative Head of Studio to maintain consistently high creative standards across projects and deliverables.
• Provides creative leadership across design, motion, animation, digital, print, and production workflows.
• Leads through craft, collaboration, and hands‑on creative involvement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in art direction, visual design, or multidisciplinary creative roles within agencies, studios, or in‑house creative organizations.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft across brand campaigns, digital experiences, social content, and integrated creative work.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and a willingness to contribute directly to the work every day.
• Strong foundation in typography, composition, layout, visual hierarchy, and digital design principles.
• Experience developing and executing creative work across digital, social, motion, and integrated campaigns.
• Motion design experience is a plus.
• Strong creative judgment and an ability to refine work through thoughtful feedback and collaboration.
• Experience adapting global creative for local audiences while maintaining brand consistency.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency with emerging AI creative tools (e.g. generative image, video, and language models) and an understanding of how to integrate them into the creative process to improve speed, exploration, and creative quality.
• Hands‑on experience and curiosity in using AI creative tools (e.g. generative image, video, and language models) to accelerate ideation, concept development, and creative production.

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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.

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