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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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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Monks is seeking a Visual Quality Analyst (QA) to join our global quality team supporting one of the biggest clients in the world. You’ll play a key role in ensuring visual excellence across large-scale digital campaigns and assets produced by cross-functional creative and production teams.

This role requires an expert eye for design, deep knowledge of testing tools, and the ability to manage complex QA processes for high-volume, high-visibility creative output.

Role

As a Visual QA, you’ll be responsible for defining and executing testing strategies to ensure the highest level of quality across digital assets — including banners, images, and video content. You’ll collaborate closely with design, production, and engineering teams to identify visual inconsistencies, usability issues, and brand deviations before final delivery.

You’ll take ownership of your projects end-to-end: from planning and testing to bug management and post-delivery verification.

Responsibilities

• Review and test a wide range of digital assets (banners, images, videos, and more) with exceptional precision and attention to detail.
• Execute QA strategies and test plans for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery and top-tier quality.Identify, document, and prioritize bugs using standardized tracking tools; triage issues based on severity and impact.
• Collaborate with designers, producers, and developers to resolve visual and technical issues efficiently.
• Review specifications, brand guidelines, and design documents to anticipate potential quality risks.
• Maintain fluent use of content Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems for organizing, retrieving, and tracking digital content.
• Troubleshoot issues within the DAM system and suggest process improvements.
• Create and maintain comprehensive QA documentation, test plans, and visual validation checklists.
• Support overall operational efficiency by suggesting process improvements in testing and bug management workflows.
• Work hands-on with Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Sketch, and other creative tools to validate and analyze visual deliverables accurately.
  
  

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Testing, preferably within creative production, digital advertising, or post-production environments.
• Strong understanding of graphic design principles and familiarity with tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Media Info, Frame.io, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and Sketch.
• Hands-on experience with QA methodologies, testing processes, and bug tracking systems (e.g., Jira, Trello, or similar).
• Advanced attention to visual detail, with the ability to identify subtle inconsistencies across formats and platforms.
• Proven ability to create, execute, and manage QA test plans for large-scale or complex campaigns.Strong collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally with design, production, and technology teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Proficiency in documentation creation, workflow mapping, and delivering training to larger groups.
• Highly organized, proactive, and self-sufficient — capable of owning multiple QA tracks simultaneously.
• Based in Mexico City, with availability to work from the office three days per week.

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• Working as part of a dedicated client team, you’ll edit and animate campaign and social content for a top-name (and top-secret) brand.
• Design and animate titles, end cards and accompanying graphics for different platforms
• Design and animate social media posts, generating original content from scratch as well as adapting or incorporating provided assets
• Work closely with art directors to concept creative solutions for clients
• Work with the creative team and production to understand project scope and objectives.
• Keeping up to date with latest design/animation techniques
• Adaptation of campaign assets - logo and artwork preparation, retouching, color grading etc.
• Light editing
• Export and deliver appropriate files to the specification given.
• General IT housekeeping of software, plugins, assets, style-guides etc.
• Compliance with guidelines, deadlines and design standards.
• Adhere to internal workflow and process
• Ability to find workflow efficiencies and optimization across the pipelines is a plus.

• Must have at least 5+ years of agency advertising experience
• Must be a bright, articulate, self-starter who can take initiative and bring new ideas to the table.
• Must be able to work closely with a team of graphic designers, editors, and art-directors.
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects, including expression writing and template creation.
• Solid experience in Cinema 4D (or other 3D tools, with C4D preferred).
• Strong design fundamentals: typography, composition, timing, and visual storytelling.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues in both 2D and 3D workflows.
• Comfortable working in a macOS environment.
• Familiarity with Mac Systems
• Typography, Layout and Design skills
• Experience working within strict brand guidelines, as well as adapting campaign look & feel
• Passionate about design, and a student of social trends
• Possess a willingness to explore multiple options and adapt to stakeholder feedback
• Professional, efficient, organized, detail-oriented, have excellent follow-through, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Have the ability to work independently and collaboratively and to successfully manage concurrent and competing projects
• You will be expected to adhere to a high level of confidentiality

• It’s essential to have advanced English.

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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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