Design Director

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Role & Responsibilities

Creative Leadership & Vision

• Set and elevate the creative standard across the APAC Hub, championing exceptional craft and contemporary visual thinking.
• Partner with Creative Directors and cross-functional teams to shape creative direction across multiple clients and workstreams.
• Develop compelling visual systems, creative territories, and design languages that scale across channels, markets, and platforms.
• Present creative vision and design rationale confidently to clients and senior stakeholders.

Design Excellence

• Create and oversee distinctive, beautifully crafted design systems that balance aesthetics, usability, and scalability.
• Be comfortable working across the full spectrum of design, from branding and identity systems to websites, digital products, campaigns, social content, and presentations.
• Maintain an exceptional eye for typography, composition, motion, storytelling, and contemporary visual culture.
• Provide hands-on creative direction and design leadership on key projects when required.

Team Leadership

• Mentor, coach, and inspire designers, Art Directors, and Senior Art Directors, helping them grow both creatively and professionally.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing creative culture built around curiosity, experimentation, and continuous learning.
• Champion constructive feedback, strong creative reviews, and a culture of raising the standard together.

Craft, Systems & Innovation

• Drive consistency across design systems, templates, frameworks, and creative processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve creative workflows through automation, scalable systems, and operational efficiencies.
• Champion technology-enabled creativity by integrating AI-powered tools and automation throughout the creative process, helping teams work smarter while maintaining exceptional creative quality.
• Continuously explore emerging creative technologies and evolve best practices across the team.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience across branding, design, digital, campaigns, and integrated creative environments.
• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating creative leadership, world-class visual craft, and strategic design thinking.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams across multiple clients or brands.
• High proficiency across Figma, Google Slides, and the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Deep understanding of brand systems, digital experiences, content ecosystems, social-first thinking, and integrated campaigns.
• Experience designing across branding, websites, digital products, campaigns, social content, and presentations.
• Strong understanding of scalable design systems and operational workflows.
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI-powered creative tools and automation into design workflows to improve quality, speed, and efficiency.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent English proficiency.

Nice to Have

• Experience working across APAC markets.
• Motion design, creative technology, or digital product experience.
• Experience building and leading distributed creative teams.

What We Value

• Leaders who inspire exceptional creative work through both vision and action.
• Designers with impeccable taste and an obsession for craft.
• Curiosity, experimentation, and a commitment to continuous evolution.
• A systems mindset that balances creativity with scalability.
• Technology-enabled creativity, where AI and automation are embraced as part of the modern creative process.
• People who build strong teams, champion collaboration, and elevate those around them.

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About Monks

Monks 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.
 
This 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.

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.