Senior Art Director

Monks Associates Inc; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks Associates Inc is seeking a Senior Art Director to create innovative concepts that lead campaigns across various media. This role emphasizes collaboration, creativity, and the ability to manage multiple projects on strict deadlines. Ideal candidates will bring diverse perspectives and a strong creative viewpoint, working within an inclusive and collaborative environment.

Benefits

Full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays

401k with company contribution

Paid parental leave

Work-life balance focus

Career growth opportunities

Inclusive culture with resource groups

Qualifications

• 4-6 years experience in a creative field.
• Strong creative point of view.
• Ability to work under deadlines across mediums.

Responsibilities

• Develop concepts and directions for campaigns.
• Manage multiple projects and collaborate effectively.
• Attend client meetings and present ideas.

Skills

Creativity

Detail-oriented

Collaboration

Time management

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 Art Director, you’ll conceptualize, articulate, and create comps/moodboards to complement and sell-in ideas. We are looking for someone who is able to pull visual looks, build stunning decks, and work in a variety of mediums, from banner ads to web to film. The position involves experience working with a partner as a creative team, creating well-rounded, strategically grounded and world-class creative.

Responsibilities:

• Concepts
  The Sr Art Director will work under the guidance of an Associate Creative Director or a Creative Director to develop concepts and directions for creative ideas, campaigns, and executions. This will require them to make conceptual and stylistic decisions to illustrate their idea to other members of the team or management. This work can be done in conjunction with teams they’re reporting to or working alongside.
• Workload
  Must have the ability to work on more than one project at a time. This includes abiding by timelines, receiving direction, and collaborating - all with a great eye for detail. They will also have the ability to self-cull ideas, and act as their own quality control for their projects by reviewing and editing their work before it is seen by the larger agency group or clients.
• Client Presentations & Presentations
  The Sr Art Director will often attend client meetings. It’s expected that a Senior Creative will be able to clearly communicate an idea in a formal client setting, conduct themselves in a friendly, professional, and approachable manner and chew gum while doing it.
• Staying Curious
  Senior creatives should consume as much culture, content, and trends as possible to help advise the work they create. You should demonstrate curiosity for the world and the things people create within it, whether it's a new AI platform, social media trends, art, music, film, lit, greatest hits of advertising, or new, emerging thought leadership on media, tech, and creativity. It’s all a part of the self-starter, always curious, never-not-learning approach that we look for at the Senior level.
• Skills
  Senior Creatives should be confident with their ability to ideate, while also being reliable and fast-paced. As they master skills, they should continue to take on new skills, constantly growing and expanding their capabilities. A working and ever increasing knowledge of new AI capabilities is a must.

About You

The essentials:

At least 4-6 years experience in a creative field.

A strong creative point of view.

The ability to concept ideas across a broad range of mediums on a deadline.

Collaborative with strategic, brand, creative, production and media partners.

Finger on the pulse of creative cultures, trends, and technologies.

Ability to work on projects from concept to completion, accepting creative guidance and suggestions along the way.

The ability to follow directions with a can-do attitude.

Proven track record in creating and producing work.

The ability to self-edit their own work and ideas.

Experience working on and producing campaign level work.

Not a must, but a plus:

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.

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What We Offer

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here !)

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$85,000—$95,000 USD

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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