Monks - Head of Design Studio
Requirements
• 7+ years of experience in design, art direction, or creative leadership roles within agencies, studios, or in-house creative organizations. • 4+ years of experience leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams. • Demonstrated success building and scaling creative organizations, design systems, and high-volume content operations. • Exceptional visual craft across typography, composition, motion, design systems, and digital experiences. • Deep expertise in Figma and modern design system methodologies. • Strong understanding of AI-enabled creative workflows, automation, and agentic production models. • Proven experience translating creative ideas into scalable production frameworks. • Strong operational mindset with experience balancing creative quality, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation. • Experience creating assets for eCommerce channels is a plus. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners. • Experience implementing governance frameworks, quality assurance processes, and creative standards at scale. • Passion for coaching and developing creative talent.
Responsibilities
• Teams consistently deliver high-quality creative work at scale across brands, markets, and channels. • Design systems and AI-enabled workflows increase efficiency while elevating creative outcomes. • Creative standards, governance frameworks, and workflows enable consistent execution across human and agentic production models. • Teams operate with clear expectations, strong accountability, and a shared commitment to excellence. • The organization continuously evolves its creative capabilities through new technologies, processes, and ways of working. • #LI-Hybrid#LI-VL1 • Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact. • Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, 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, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, 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.
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