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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).\nAbout Us:\nMonks is a digital-first marketing and advertising services company connecting the dots across content, data & digital media and technology services. Inspired by the connectivity and flexibility of technology APIs, Monks’ single-P&L model offers brands seamless access to a nearly 7,000-strong team of digital talent organized across 57 talent hubs in 33 countries. \nTogether we stand for artistry, commitment and a global community of talent from different personal and professional backgrounds. People who are not in it for themselves but for each other and the work. Day after day, curious, detail-obsessed and passionate. We want to build something with the potential to change the heart of our industry, and we’d love to include your unique perspective.\nThe Role:\nAs Creative Director working across multiple brands, but focused on one of the largest automotive companies in the world, you will work on the evolution of all creative and marketing expressions for the brands and sub-brands. \nYou will be collaborating with a team of creative practitioners that develop groundbreaking digital experiences, social campaigns, experiential engagements, assets at scale production, and future innovation opportunities. \nIn 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 and will have worked with regional delivery teams in previous roles.\nYou 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nCreative Leadership and Accountability:\nPartner with the existing team in elevating creative expression of the client brands to new levels of creative excellence.\nProvide creative direction and inspiration to client projects and teams. Guide the conceptual and aesthetic direction of campaigns, experiential or design projects.\nProvide input into the allocation of creative resources and talent to ensure optimal team performance and project success.\nComfortable 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.\nImprove accountability across your creative teams through stellar management, building strong morale and cultivating a positive creative environment.\nActive contributor for ideation on all projects and pitches for our key client brands.\nClient Interaction and Building Trust:\nWork 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.\nParticipate in potential new business pitches and ongoing organic new business development.\nLead the development of our creative practice, with a focus on evolving processes in our own ways of working and creation.\nClient Strategy and Business Growth:\nWork 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.\nMaintain and manage positive client relationships, serving as a reliable creative ally, and guaranteeing client satisfaction and retention.\nCollaborate with clients to devise creative strategies and solutions that align with their business objectives and catalyze results.\nInnovation and Creative Process:\nContribute 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.\nDrive innovation and creativity, setting new industry standards and ensuring that the company's work is smart, creative, and innovative.\nQualifications:\nThis Creative Director role is ideally suited to an experienced conceptual digital creative with a proven background in either copywriting or art direction. The right candidate will have a strong portfolio that demonstrates work across brand, digital, and integrated campaigns, and the confidence to present and share their ideas effectively.\nYou have 10+ years global experience working for a wide range of clients and brands, ideally agency and/or on client-side.\nYou have a strong desire to build and nurture diverse teams and nurture diverse perspectives, empowering the voices that are both close and abroad.\nStrong passion for innovation and emerging technologies, with an active interest in the role of AI in creativity.\nYou inherently understand digital and think way beyond traditional ad formats and budgets, with an exceptional creative background.\nYou 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.\nAbility to concept, pitch, and execute big brand ideas that resonate across multiple touchpoints.\nExperience working with offshore delivery teams, briefing, quality control and team management & inspiration \nAbility to think clearly and contribute constructively to discussions and strategy during the entire creative process, from concept through production.\nYou are self-motivated, hard working, and work well in a fast-paced environment.\nA people first mentality and experience in building a best-in-class global creative team.\nAutomotive and production experience is highly desired. \n#LI-CX1 #LI-Remote\nAbout Monks\nMonks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery-taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.\nThis commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It 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 (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.\nWe 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. 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