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Media.Monks — Amsterdam, North Holland
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About The Role
As an Art Director, you'll lead and elevate the visual quality of our creative work across a talented, multidisciplinary maker team . You will be hands-on, helping to guide and craft work spanning design, motion, animation, digital, and print . We are looking for someone who is a maker at heart, has strong design fundamentals, and is excited to explore how new tools like AI can speed up and improve the creative process .
If you are passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work, this is the place for you.
Responsibilities
: Lead the creative execution of campaigns, adaptive content, and always-on communications across multiple channels and markets. Provide day-to-day creative direction and feedback across a multidisciplinary team, including design, motion, animation, digital, print, and emerging media. Partner with the Creaive Head of Studio to translate brand platforms and campaign ideas into exceptional creative execution.
Work hands-on in Figma, AI creative tools, and other design platforms to refine layouts, evolve concepts, improve visual storytelling, and elevate overall craft. Jump into projects whenever needed to solve creative challenges, unblock teams, and improve the quality of the work. Guide the adaptation of global creative into culturally relevant executions while maintaining brand integrity.
Elevate the quality of creative work through thoughtful feedback, hands-on collaboration, and strong creative judgment. Collaborate closely with Production, Strategy, Operations, Account, and Localization teams to deliver outstanding work efficiently and at scale. Help evolve creative templates, design resources, and best practices that support consistent, high-quality execution.
Embrace emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, where they enhance the creative process and improve efficiency. Scope Operates within the local creative team and serves as the primary creative craft enhancer lead for a multidisciplinary maker team. Partners closely with the Creative Head of Studio to maintain consistently high creative standards across projects and deliverables.
Provides creative leadership across design, motion, animation, digital, print, and production workflows. Leads through craft, collaboration, and hands-on creative involvement. About You The essentials: You have 5+ years of experience in art direction, visual design, or a similar creative role within an agency, studio, or in-house team.
You bring a strong portfolio showing high-quality craft across digital experiences, social content, and integrated campaigns. You are highly skilled in Figma and love being hands-on with design every day. You have a deep understanding of typography, layout, composition, and digital design principles.
You have experience adapting global creative work for local markets while keeping brand consistency. You are a clear communicator and enjoy collaborating across different creative and production teams. You are curious about and comfortable using emerging AI creative tools (like generative image and video models) to help with ideation and production.
Not a must, but a plus: Experience creating visual assets for eCommerce platforms. Experience with motion design . 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.