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Monks 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, Media.Monks’ single-P&L model offers brands seamless access to a nearly 6,000-strong team of digital talent organized across 57 talent hubs in 33 countries.
With us, you'll find a diverse group of colleagues with different backgrounds and perspectives. We believe everyone has something of value to offer, and that sustaining a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace begins with fostering an environment where people can be themselves, authentically, every day. We want to build something with the potential to change the heart of our industry, and we’d love to include your unique perspective. Now, about the opportunity: Media.Monks is hiring a brilliant and thoughtful digital tastemaker to craft top–notch designs for the world's highest–profile brands.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Be part of an international team that crafts amazing work for the world’s biggest brands under the guidance of a creative director, design director or lead designer.
- Translate brand values, creative concepts, UX documentation and user–stories into ground–breaking visual & functional design solutions.
- Going above and beyond the original brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level.
- Employing your problem–solving skills and full stack of design solutions to guide projects from start, finish and everywhere in between to ensure the highest quality of the delivery.
- Presenting your work in person and through video calls to colleagues and clients, pitching new projects and proposals for production. You’ll prototype your designs where needed to provide additional clarification.
- Provide written and verbal communication to articulate and strengthen your designs.
- Ensure the tone of content produced is accurate and reflects both the cultural differences and tastes of the local market while still feeling true to the overall brand direction.
Requirements
- You’re a wonderful designer. You prove your visual prowess through your online portfolio and relevant working experience of 5+ years in the field of digital and web design. Beyond aesthetic excellence, your portfolio demonstrates exemplary presentation, research, troubleshooting and problem–solving skills.
- Your unwavering curiosity never stops you from learning and progressing. You love pushing the envelope both personally and professionally.
- You love people and their diversity. You’re great to work with, as you have strong social and communication skills that ensure you understand how colleagues and clients work and think.
- You can work in English & Japanese at the highest professional level.
- A critical eye but you’re not critical. You understand that a combination of kudos and critique makes people want to go the extra mile.
- A thorough understanding of design fundamentals such as typography, interaction design and usability, grid systems, white space, aspect ratios and color theory, tying all of these elements together with obsessive attention to detail.
- You feel confident in tackling high–end projects in collaboration with colleagues and clients alike.
- Mastery of all modern design and prototyping tools (Adobe CS, Sketch, Figma, Principle...).
- Based on your experience and expertise, you can judge the quality of the user experience, and explain what needs to be achieved to make it better.
- Mindful of your time, budget and schedule, you are flexible and willing to put in the time and dedication needed to make each project you work on a success.
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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.
