Mid Art Director (Focused on asset adaptation)

About the role: 

Monks is seeking a talented production designer to further their skills in digital asset production, content design, and retouching. In this senior-level role, you will join a dedicated global team in producing top-quality content for the product interfaces of one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Responsibilities: 

• In this role, you’ll specialize in the design of static visuals for a wide variety of channels, including product interfaces, social media, and display advertising.
• You work as part of a dedicated global team of designers, illustrators, animators, editors, and art directors who produce world-class work across time zones.
• The job is about harmonizing speed, style, and scale to produce loads of good-looking assets at a steady pace. 
• Pixel perfectness is important. You safeguard quality at all times and work together with QA testers. 
• In addition to making images look so good you'll want to lick them, you make sure that designs adhere to guidelines and are consistent across ad formats, dimensions, and languages.
• You will work together directly with art directors on the client side, representing .monks from a design POV.

Please be attentive to the requirements for this role and accompany your portfolio with a short cover letter detailing why you’re the right Monk for the job.

About you: 

The essentials: 

• For this role, we’re looking for a designer with around 4 years of experience crafting digital ads and assets.

• You have solid Photoshop and Illustrator skills. Sketch or Figma skills are a bonus. 
• You need to master the art of silhouetting, and additional retouching skills are a plus.
• You know how to keep your files, layers, and folders super-organized, even if you’re a creative mess outside of Photoshop.
• You can take charge of tasks independently, collaborate with clients, and proactively lead projects.
• You can contribute to different stages of the production process; from setting styles and layouts to cutting formats and language versioning.
• Creating balanced and beautiful layouts is your second nature.
• You are always on the lookout for process efficiencies. 
• You can handle repetitive tasks and stay focused. 
• You are well-versed in English, production tricks, and cat videos.
• You are a clear communicator and are happy to work with designers from all over the world. 

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Art Director (Focused on asset adaptation)

About the role: 

Monks is seeking a talented production designer to further their skills in digital asset production, content design, and retouching. In this senior-level role, you will join a dedicated global team in producing top-quality content for the product interfaces of one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Responsibilities: 

• In this role, you’ll specialize in the design of static visuals for a wide variety of channels, including product interfaces, social media, and display advertising.
• You work as part of a dedicated global team of designers, illustrators, animators, editors, and art directors who produce world-class work across time zones.
• The job is about harmonizing speed, style, and scale to produce loads of good-looking assets at a steady pace. 
• Pixel perfectness is important. You safeguard quality at all times and work together with QA testers. 
• In addition to making images look so good you'll want to lick them, you make sure that designs adhere to guidelines and are consistent across ad formats, dimensions, and languages.
• You will work together directly with art directors on the client side, representing .monks from a design POV.

Please be attentive to the requirements for this role and accompany your portfolio with a short cover letter detailing why you’re the right Monk for the job.

About you: 

The essentials: 

• For this role, we’re looking for a designer with around 6 years of experience crafting digital ads and assets.

• You have solid Photoshop and Illustrator skills. Sketch or Figma skills are a bonus. 
• You need to master the art of silhouetting, and additional retouching skills are a plus.
• You know how to keep your files, layers, and folders super-organized, even if you’re a creative mess outside of Photoshop.
• You can take charge of tasks independently, collaborate with clients, and proactively lead projects.
• You can contribute to different stages of the production process; from setting styles and layouts to cutting formats and language versioning.
• Creating balanced and beautiful layouts is your second nature.
• You are always on the lookout for process efficiencies. 
• You can handle repetitive tasks and stay focused. 
• You are well-versed in English, production tricks, and cat videos.
• You are a clear communicator and are happy to work with designers from all over the world. 

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Monks is seeking a Sr. Project Manager with a knack for design, animation, and video editing at scale. This person will work closely with our clients, so client-facing experience is a must.

This mid level role requires prior experience in digital advertising, transcreation, asset creation and/or integrated production, as well as an understanding of what is needed in the first place to make first-rate projects come about.

Role

• You’ll partner with one of our biggest clients to produce digital advertising assets that require our in-house teams to deliver quality x quantity.
• You are responsible for the process and completion of multiple design & animation projects simultaneously, managing the in- and output of our Design, Illustration and Animation Monks.
• A quality watchdog, you work closely together with our Program/Project Managers and production teams across several time zones to make sure pixels are pushed to perfection.
• You make sure that the work meets the client’s strategy, brand and creative goals, as well as our own quality standards.
• You help scoping and quoting projects, working with senior Monks and department leads to propose timelines and ballparks.
• As part of Monks, you are part of an international production company, with 9,000+ Monks from all production disciplines working together to craft the best of work.

Responsibilities

• A big part of your day-to-day is briefing team members on delivery objectives and keeping everyone informed on the progress of projects, and the latest office gossip.
• You make sure deadlines are met with lethal precision, and flag the ones that aren’t attainable upfront.
• You schedule, track and prioritize assignments and make sure the right resources (we mean people of course!) are available.
• You liaise between clients and teams to make sure Media.Monks nails milestone after milestone, hustling internal resources to meet external deadlines no matter what.
• You’ll be responsible for managing a team of producers and designers in your region, leading with passion and care. 

Requirements

• You have at least 2+ years of hands-on experience doing awesome work as a Producer or Project Manager in digital advertising or creative production.
• Fluent English communication is a must.
• You have a solid understanding of the creative workflow of fast-paced design and animation projects.
• You also have sufficient technical knowledge to foresee and address possible planning/production issues, translating the complexity of such projects into lucid language that clients can understand.
• We need a true-born and fun-loving team player who can successfully work across teams, time zones and technologies.
• You can collaborate comfortably with digital artisans including creatives, illustrators, designers, 2D animators, 3D animators, concept artists.
• Setting up and managing production projects between offices is no easy task and requires superb written and verbal communication skills.
• Spreadsheets are your natural habitat, project management tools your best friend (e.g., TeamGantt, 10,000ft, Basecamp, Post-it notes).
• You break the ice, instead of breaking a sweat when in front of the client and when facing crazy cases of ambiguity.
• You have the experience and tools to solve problems in your back pocket, and you're not afraid to use them as needed.

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