Senior Art Director

Monks; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks seeks a seasoned Creative Director to lead vision and execution across brand and digital experiences. You will shape concepts, guide multidisciplinary teams, and ensure high-quality output across regions.

You’ll collaborate with strategy, copy, motion, and product teams, advocate for AI-enhanced workflows, and present rationale to clients. This role requires 10+ years, fluent English, and excellence in leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across art direction, design, branding and integrated campaigns.
• Outstanding portfolio demonstrating leadership and visual craft.
• Proven experience leading integrated campaigns and multidisciplinary projects in fast-paced agencies.
• High proficiency with Figma, Google Slides, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Deep understanding of digital ecosystems, social-first content, and motion storytelling.
• Strong experience presenting work to senior stakeholders and clients.
• Ability to mentor distributed and remote creative teams.
• Familiarity with AI-powered tools and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of visual concepts, campaign territories, and creative systems across brand and digital experiences.
• Translate strategic briefs into compelling visual narratives and scalable campaigns.
• Elevate creative output across social, branding, content, motion, digital, and experiential touchpoints.
• Present and defend creative rationale to clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.
• Mentor designers and collaborate with cross-functional teams including strategists and copywriters.
• Ensure consistency and quality across formats and regional adaptations.
• Champion AI-powered tools and innovative workflows within creative operations.

Skills

Creative leadership

Art direction

Campaign development

Brand systems

Social-first content

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Presentation to stakeholders

Tools

Figma

Google Slides

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

InDesign

Job description

Role & Responsibilities

Creative Direction & Conceptual Leadership

• Lead the development of visual concepts, campaign territories, and creative systems across integrated brand and digital experiences.
• Translate strategic and creative briefs into compelling visual narratives and scalable campaign thinking.
• Shape and elevate creative work across social, branding, content, motion, digital, and experiential touchpoints.
• Bring fresh perspectives, cultural relevance, and contemporary creative thinking into every stage of the process.
• Present and defend creative rationale confidently to clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide creative leadership and mentorship across designers and broader creative teams.
• Partner closely with Creative Directors, Strategists, Copywriters, Motion Designers, Producers, and Client teams.
• Help create an environment that encourages experimentation, collaboration, and creative excellence.
• Guide teams through fast-moving workflows while maintaining clarity, momentum, and high standards.

Craft & Execution

• Maintain exceptional standards across typography, layout, composition, imagery, motion awareness, and storytelling.
• Oversee creative consistency and quality across multiple formats, channels, and regional adaptations.
• Ensure ideas are scalable, production-aware, and aligned with brand systems and platform best practices.
• Champion the thoughtful integration of AI-powered creative tools into concepting, design development, workflow efficiencies, and creative operations.
• Apply critical and strategic thinking when evaluating AI-assisted outputs, emerging technologies, and evolving creative workflows.
• Contribute hands-on to concept development, visual exploration, presentations, and key executions where needed.

Systems, Process & Innovation

• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, systems, and creative scalability across projects and teams.
• Help shape best practices around modern creative production and distributed collaboration.
• Explore emerging technologies and evolving workflows that improve both creative quality and operational efficiency.
• Balance creativity, speed, and operational efficiency within high-volume environments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience across art direction, design, branding, campaigns, and digital creative environments.
• Outstanding portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, creative leadership, and exceptional visual craft.
• Proven experience leading integrated campaigns and multidisciplinary creative projects within a fast-paced creative, advertising, or digital agency environment.
• High proficiency across Figma, Google Slides, and the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Deep understanding of digital ecosystems, social-first content, integrated campaign development, and motion-aware storytelling.
• Strong experience presenting creative work to senior stakeholders and clients.
• Ability to lead and mentor creative teams across distributed and remote environments.
• Excellent communication skills with fluent English proficiency.
• Strong understanding of scalable creative systems, workflows, and production processes.
• Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and emerging technologies such as GPT-5, Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Veo, Figma AI, Google Gemini Ecosystem, etc.

Nice to Have

• Experience working across APAC markets.
• Lifestyle, luxury, technology, or automotive brand experience.
• Experience in vibe-coding and/or agentic workflow.
• Motion, film, or content production experience.
• Experience leading work across regional or global creative teams.

What We Value

• Creative leaders who raise the standard of the work and the people around them.
• Individuals who combine conceptual thinking with strong executional craft.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a future-focused mindset.
• Teams that collaborate openly, move quickly, and continuously evolve.
• Creatives who embrace technology-enabled creativity and evolving workflows.
• People who care deeply about quality, culture, innovation, and building great work together.

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.