Role:
Shanghai.monks, the Shanghai office of global creative company .monks, is looking for a bilingual copy-based Group Head. You understand youth audiences, digital and social trends, and inspire our clients with smart creativity and sharp copy. You thrive in a digital creative agency where you get your hands dirty and stretch far to make work that is remembered beyond today.

Responsibilities ：

• You’ll lead by example as a driving creative force, infusing your team with creative ambition and fostering talent
• You’ll also own the creative execution of projects, seeing them through from pitch to final delivery.
• You'll be collaborating with extraordinary creatives, copywriters, designers, innovators, tech creators, data specialists, developers and producers and a lot more talented people across our expanding MediaMonks network.
• You’ll create not just what the client asked for but what their campaign needs, guiding and fostering their ambition in close and respectful collaboration, producing beautifully crafted decks that are in line with the project’s objectives and requirements.
• Working on multiple projects at once, you go above and beyond each brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level.
• Pitching directly to our clients, you’ll be shaping and selling groundbreaking concepts that live and breathe in contemporary, fully integrated campaign executions across every imaginable and relevant discipline.

Requirements ：

• At least 6 years of related experience.
• Experience with global sports brands is highly preferred.
• You are a genuine sports fan who is as skilled at elevated product storytelling as you are at driving social and community engagement around athletes.
• Bi-lingual in English & Chinese is a must.
• This role requires you to come up with industry challenging ideas, and have the ability to present them in equally compelling decks that will make clients fall in love with your thinking.
• You know how to lead your team and provide clear creative direction and ownership over their projects.
• You can independently lead fast-paced pitches
• As part of a global company operating as one team across time zones, you need to be able to successfully direct work at a distance.

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Role

Shanghai.monks, is looking for an art-based Associate Creative Director to create integrated creative campaign concepts. You understand Chinese youth audiences, digital and social trends, and inspire our clients with smart creativity. You thrive in a creative agency where you get your hands dirty and stretch far to make work that is remembered beyond today.

Responsibilities

• You’ll spearhead the creation of breakthrough integrated concept decks spanning IMC, social, digital, film, and experiential.
• You’ll take the lead on pitching and selling high-stakes campaign concepts to senior-level clients with confidence and clarity.
• You’ll set the overarching visual direction for the brand, ensuring the team delivers "pixel-perfect" craft across every touchpoint.
• By leading from the front, you’ll infuse your team with creative ambition and actively foster top-tier talent.
• You’ll own the creative execution of projects, overseeing everything from the initial pitch through final production and delivery.
• You’ll partner with extraordinary copywriters, creative technologists, and producers across the global .Monks network to push the boundaries of what's possible.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in art-based and conceptual roles within top-tier creative agencies.
• At least 5 years of experience in Mainland China, paired with a deep understanding of the local social landscape and youth culture.
• Full professional fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese is mandatory.
• You have a proven ability to manage, inspire, and grow diverse teams of creatives.
• You’re a genuine sports fan who is as skilled at elevated product storytelling as you are at driving social and community engagement around athletes.
• A body of work that demonstrates mastery across everything from high-end TVC and KV production to innovative social-first campaigns.
• Exceptional presentation skills with a track record of winning pitches and building strong client relationships.

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Role

Shanghai.monks, the Shanghai office of global creative digital company Monks, is looking for a highly talented Growth Director to help accelerate growth in our Shanghai office. The Growth Director is responsible for creating net-new opportunities using a multi-channel growth approach. The primary measurement of success for this role is defined by achieving growth targets as set forth by the Shanghai Managing Director, as well as one’s ability to out-pitch, out-position, out-play, and out-procure the competition.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and drive the team to develop and execute sales strategies to profitably grow revenues and expand the account base in target markets.
• Drive effective, accurate, and timely forecasting and pipeline reporting.
• Partner with marketing, pre-sales, partner management, and professional services to maximize opportunities and foster cohesive sales strategies.
• Pipeline development and customer acquisition activities, including direct sales, co-selling with growth team leadership, managing directors, marketing teams, partnership leads and partner growth leads.
• Identifying areas of new opportunities within current client relationships ("white space") under the guidance of client leads.
• Designing strategies with Shanghai MD and market leadership to expand within client relationships.
• Build executive level relationships for new prospects and with present clients.
• Work closely with S4 cross functional teams on prospective deals to ensure accurate bids, compelling value propositions and a frictionless deal environment.
• Identify, develop and prospect cold leads.

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

• Preferred years of experience: 10 years of full cycle sales experience; demonstrated career progression and strong performance as a senior leader, ideally in digital content, platform sales or related business. A minimum of 5 years leading a sales or partnership development organization.
• Proven track record of successfully negotiating deals at senior levels of major brands; ideally brings deep relationships from the media and agency landscape.
• Experience working alongside producers, creatives & engineers. 
• Knowledge of technology; well-developed product sensibility and experience leading creative discussions regarding potentially innovative, unique and engaging content and product offerings.
• Track-record of collaboration and influencing across a large organization to deliver to expectations.
• Proven ability to use measurement and analytics to position performance data to illustrate impact.
• As an ideal candidate, you should have demonstrated success in a measured and commission driven compensation model, with a history of achieving lead conversation and revenue targets.  
• Strong business development skills with experience prospecting and bringing in new business.
• Proven ability to cultivate and maintain strong relationships with C level and Executive decision makers at the enterprise businesses/organizations.
• Ability to build and deliver exceptional presentations to your customers.
• Develop strategic and tactical account planning/execution and implement client strategy.
• Foster and develop key relationships. Act as the primary contact for campaign performance and review, troubleshooting, client training, new products and policy, and implementation questions.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills both remote and in-person.
• Ability to articulate and educate Clients and team members on Digital strategy, trends, challenges.

Traits

• Competitive - you want to win and you effectively solve obstacles in the way of your goals.
• Organized - you use and create systems to stay on top of your responsibilities.
• Closer - you know how to seal the deal and get people over the finish line! 
• You are passionate and a have a deep, holistic knowledge and passion for creative, technology and digital.
• Skilled at working with cross-functional teams to successfully execute new product initiatives and develop partnerships.
• Thrives in fast-paced environment, and can embrace rapid change and innovation.
• Willing to travel as necessary.

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