About the Role

Monks is seeking a seasoned Strategy Director or Group Strategy Director to lead the strategic vision for one of the world’s most visible tech clients..

We are looking for a strategist who speaks the language of UX. You understand that a website isn't just a utility—it is a brand’s most powerful marketing engine. You know how to connect the dots between a big brand campaign and the navigational structure of a product page. You understand content strategy, site narratives, and user flows – and can author all of them. 

This isn’t a UX design role - no wireframing here. This is a UX strategy role where architecting the experience is partnered with a UX design lead. It is a role for a Savvy Storyteller who can command a room of client Marketing VPs and Product Leads with a simple, clear, articulation of the user experience. 

You will define how the ecosystem tells the brand story, where the user goes next, and why it matters for the customer journey.

Responsibilities:

1- Strategic Narrative & Pitching

• Sell the Vision: You are the lead author of the pitch deck for site strategy and digital experiences. You act as the bridge between the client’s Marketing goals and the digital reality. You frame structural changes (like a redesign or IA overhaul) as marketing opportunities that drive acquisition and brand love.
• Orchestrate the Journey: You move the conversation beyond "pages" to "journeys." You define how a user flows from an ad, to a landing page, to a product deep-dive, ensuring the narrative holds together.
• Persuasive Leadership: You partner with Client Directors to pitch proactive ideas. You can stand in front of a CMO or VP of Marketing and explain why the current web experience is hurting their brand metrics—and more importantly, how we fix it.

2- Web Ecosystem Strategy

• Marketing-Led UX: You define the Information Architecture (IA) and Content Strategy, but you do it with a marketer's mindset. You prioritize content based on user intent, conversion goals, and brand messaging hierarchies.
• Tame the Fragmentation: The ecosystem is massive. You help the client consolidate disparate microsites and tools into a cohesive brand experience that feels unified, not chaotic.
• Connect the Dots: You ensure our web strategy aligns with the client’s broader marketing calendar, product launches, and brand campaigns.

About You

The essentials:

• 10+ years of experience in Digital Strategy, UX Strategy, or Experience Strategy.
• Marketing DNA: You have worked at digital agencies where the website was treated as a primary marketing channel. You understand campaigns, content strategy, and brand positioning.
• Proven Pitch Experience: You have led or played a key role in winning pitches for large-scale digital projects.
• Core Skills:
• Expert proficiency in Keynote/Google Slides (your decks are persuasive narratives).
• Strong grasp of UX Fundamentals (IA, Wireframing concepts, User Research).
• Ability to connect UX improvements to Marketing KPIs (Engagement, Conversion, Sentiment).

What We Offer: 

• Strategic leadership over a high-profile digital ecosystem.
• A pivotal role in shaping how a global tech giant goes to market on the web.
• A collaborative, global team of Monks to help execute the vision you define.

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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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

About the Role

As an Associate Director, Strategy, you’ll deliver customer-centric, spatial, and retail strategic expertise for one of our top-tier technology clients. You will bring hardware and digital products to life through best-in-class events, global trade shows, pop-ups, in-store activations, and on-device content working closely with internal leadership to turn brand campaigns into welcoming interactive experiences. We are looking for a dynamic candidate to champion the "phygital" (physical + digital) landscape who is passionate about creating immersive environments and seeking new opportunities to create impactful work in an ever-evolving space. Your job is to define how our clients’ brands live, behave, and sell in the real world—and how those moments seamlessly connect to the purchase journey.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate client objectives and product roadmaps to design compelling physical footprints, defining how attendees move through a space—whether it is a global trade show booth or a local retail pop-up.
• Develop retail engagement strategies that drive product understanding and consideration, specifically for consumer electronics, phones, wearables, and smart home devices. Go beyond the data. Determine how people actually move through spaces to identify friction points and "magic moments" with these devices in a physical space.
• Strategize the connection between physical events and digital ecosystems, ensuring on-ground activations are amplified socially and digitally to drive earned media and long-term loyalty.
• Define what "success" looks like across the various experiences. Move beyond foot traffic to measure dwell time, sentiment, and digital behavior and conversions.
• Lead the strategic narrative for new business pitches within the experiential and retail sector, translating complex business challenges into innovative, spatial strategic visions that win work.
• Identify and pursue proactive growth opportunities within the US market to expand the agency's experiential portfolio.
• Cultivate strong relationships with senior marketing leaders at prospective client organizations, acting as a trusted advisor on the future of retail and events.
• Collaborate hand-in-glove with Creative Directors, Technologists, and Fabrication partners to ensure strategic concepts are feasible, buildable, and impactful.
• Champion high standards for interactive design, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in physical brand activations.

About You

The essentials:

• 7 - 9 years of experience in strategy, specifically at least 5 years in experiential marketing, brand activation, and/or retail strategy.
• Must be based in the US (California or New York preferred).
• Current or recent experience working in an agency environment.
• Deep knowledge of consumer electronics, hardware, or tech brands, with an understanding of how to market a physical product in a physical space.
• Strong spatial awareness with the ability to look at a floor plan or a render and identify user journeys, dwell times, and engagement opportunities.
• Understand how to design for dopamine, belonging, and memory, not just for aesthetic appeal.
• Led or supported strategy for major global rollouts or high-impact "drop" culture activations.
• A proven track record of successfully winning new business and leading or supporting complex pitch processes for events or experiential agencies.
• Exceptional ability to articulate complex ideas (like AI integration or ecosystem connectivity) into simple, human-centric physical experiences.
• Resilience and adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment where event deadlines are immovable.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Experience working specifically with large-scale tech ecosystems.
• BA/BS/MA degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field.
• A portfolio demonstrating success in major trade shows (e.g., CES, MWC) or large-scale retail installations.

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

As SVP, Group Account Director, you are the executive lead for one of our most strategically important client relationships. You operate at the intersection of enterprise partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership, creative production excellence, and AI driven transformation.

You are both the commercial owner of the business and the architect of its AI enabled evolution.

In a fast moving, collaborative environment, you build senior level trust, diagnose complex business challenges, and design AI enabled operating models that drive measurable impact. You ensure fiscal health, production excellence, and long term growth while shaping how we deliver through scalable, AI powered workflows.

This role requires a strategic operator who sees transformation opportunities early and knows how to convert innovation into revenue, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

Executive Client Leadership and Transformation

• Align integrated marketing, creative, and production ecosystems to client business priorities and growth objectives
• Ensure programs drive measurable brand impact, commercial performance, and operational advantage across channels
• Act as executive sponsor for high impact initiatives, providing strategic oversight and cross functional alignment
• Orchestrate creative, media, technology, data, and AI capabilities to deliver differentiated, connected solutions
• Elevate the conversation from outputs to outcomes, positioning integrated delivery as a competitive advantage for the client
  
  

Commercial and Strategic Growth

• Deliver against revenue, margin, and operational KPIs
• Expand footprint across business units, channels, and services
• Shape AI differentiated proposals, RFP responses, and growth strategies
• Lead pricing strategy and commercial negotiations
• Identify and convert AI enabled upsell and cross sell opportunities
  
  

People and Leadership

• Lead and develop senior account leaders and cross functional teams
• Elevate AI fluency and foster a culture of experimentation and accountability
• Drive collaboration across regions and disciplines
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline across the account

About You

The essentials: 

• 15+ years in senior marketing or agency leadership roles
• Proven success managing and growing multi million dollar global accounts
• Deep understanding of marketing and production workflows
• Demonstrated experience translating business challenges into AI enabled solutions
• Experience leading transformation, workflow redesign, or enterprise change initiatives
• Strong executive presence with C level stakeholders
• Commercially sharp and operationally rigorous
• Experienced people leader
  
  

Success Is Measured By

• Revenue growth and margin expansion
• Executive level client trust and retention
• Scaled adoption of AI with measurable business impact
• Expansion across services and business units
• Operational efficiency and production scalability
• High performing, engaged teams

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

We are makers. We create because we are curious, and we believe that the best way to prove an idea works is to make it real.

As the Creative Director, Interactive & Retail Experiences, you are the architect of the "magic moment"—that split second when a user touches a device and understands exactly why they need it. Reporting to the GCD of Emerging Experiences, you will own the digital manifestation of Google hardware and software in the physical world.

Your domain is the screen, but your context is the store. You will lead the creation of world-class interactive demos for global retail environments (Google Store, Best Buy, etc.) and event activations. You are a hybrid creative leader: part UX architect, part product designer, and part storyteller, capable of translating complex AI features into intuitive, playful, and "Google Grade" interactions.

Responsibilities:

Interactive Mastery & Product Storytelling

• Own the Demo: Lead the conceptualization and execution of on-device demos for new product launches (Pixel, Nest, Fitbit). You will turn technical specs into "show, don't tell" experiences that prove the product’s value instantly.
• Retail Pragmatism: Balance "big vision" creative thinking with the realities of the retail environment. Design experiences that are robust enough for thousands of interactions yet simple enough to engage a shopper in seconds.
• UX/UI Leadership: Direct teams of interactive designers, motion designers, and creative technologists. Ensure every swipe, tap, and transition meets the highest standards of craft and usability.

Strategic Innovation & Client Partnership

• Partner with Product: Collaborate deeply with Google’s hardware and retail marketing teams. You must be comfortable navigating complex stakeholder maps (Marketing, Product, Brand) to align creative vision with product roadmaps.
• Push the Possible: Challenge the status quo of "attract loops" and "feature lists." Innovate how we showcase AI and software features in ways that feel magical, not mechanical.
• Present with Authority: Lead client presentations with clarity and conviction. You are the expert in the room, guiding clients from the "what" to the "how".

AI & Future Workflows

AI Optimist: Embrace AI tools to supercharge your team’s workflow—from rapid UI prototyping to generative content creation. You don't just design for AI products; you design with AI tools.

About You

The essentials:

• Experience: 10+ years of creative experience with a focus on digital, interactive, or product design. At least 3+ years in a leadership role managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Deep UX/UI Fluency: You have a portfolio that demonstrates deep expertise in user experience and interface design. Product design experience is a significant plus.
• Retail/Tech Pedigree: Experience working with major tech clients or launching products in retail environments is highly preferred. You understand the "shopper journey" and how to interrupt it.
• Maker Mindset: You are hands-on. You can jump into Figma or Principle when needed, not just to fix, but to demonstrate an idea.
• Tech-Savvy: A strong understanding of hardware capabilities, software constraints, and the opportunities within the Android ecosystem.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Innovation: Successfully launching new demo formats that increase dwell time and engagement in retail.
• Craft Quality: delivering work that is recognized internally and externally as "Google Grade"—clear, human, and useful.

Client Trust: Becoming the "first call" for client partners when facing a new product launch challenge.

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

As SVP, Group Account Director, you are the executive lead for one of our most strategically important client relationships. You operate at the intersection of enterprise partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership, creative production excellence, and AI driven transformation.

You are both the commercial owner of the business and the architect of its AI enabled evolution.

In a fast moving, collaborative environment, you build senior level trust, diagnose complex business challenges, and design AI enabled operating models that drive measurable impact. You ensure fiscal health, production excellence, and long term growth while shaping how we deliver through scalable, AI powered workflows.

This role requires a strategic operator who sees transformation opportunities early and knows how to convert innovation into revenue, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

Executive Client Leadership and Transformation

• Align integrated marketing, creative, and production ecosystems to client business priorities and growth objectives
• Ensure programs drive measurable brand impact, commercial performance, and operational advantage across channels
• Act as executive sponsor for high impact initiatives, providing strategic oversight and cross functional alignment
• Orchestrate creative, media, technology, data, and AI capabilities to deliver differentiated, connected solutions
• Elevate the conversation from outputs to outcomes, positioning integrated delivery as a competitive advantage for the client
  
  

Commercial and Strategic Growth

• Deliver against revenue, margin, and operational KPIs
• Expand footprint across business units, channels, and services
• Shape AI differentiated proposals, RFP responses, and growth strategies
• Lead pricing strategy and commercial negotiations
• Identify and convert AI enabled upsell and cross sell opportunities
  
  

People and Leadership

• Lead and develop senior account leaders and cross functional teams
• Elevate AI fluency and foster a culture of experimentation and accountability
• Drive collaboration across regions and disciplines
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline across the account

About You

The essentials: 

• 15+ years in senior marketing or agency leadership roles
• Proven success managing and growing multi million dollar global accounts
• Deep understanding of marketing and production workflows
• Demonstrated experience translating business challenges into AI enabled solutions
• Experience leading transformation, workflow redesign, or enterprise change initiatives
• Strong executive presence with C level stakeholders
• Commercially sharp and operationally rigorous
• Experienced people leader
  
  

Success Is Measured By

• Revenue growth and margin expansion
• Executive level client trust and retention
• Scaled adoption of AI with measurable business impact
• Expansion across services and business units
• Operational efficiency and production scalability
• High performing, engaged teams

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-KW1

About the Role

As SVP, Group Account Director, you are the executive lead for one of our most strategically important client relationships. You operate at the intersection of enterprise partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership, creative production excellence, and AI driven transformation.

You are both the commercial owner of the business and the architect of its AI enabled evolution.

In a fast moving, collaborative environment, you build senior level trust, diagnose complex business challenges, and design AI enabled operating models that drive measurable impact. You ensure fiscal health, production excellence, and long term growth while shaping how we deliver through scalable, AI powered workflows.

This role requires a strategic operator who sees transformation opportunities early and knows how to convert innovation into revenue, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

Executive Client Leadership and Transformation

• Align integrated marketing, creative, and production ecosystems to client business priorities and growth objectives
• Ensure programs drive measurable brand impact, commercial performance, and operational advantage across channels
• Act as executive sponsor for high impact initiatives, providing strategic oversight and cross functional alignment
• Orchestrate creative, media, technology, data, and AI capabilities to deliver differentiated, connected solutions
• Elevate the conversation from outputs to outcomes, positioning integrated delivery as a competitive advantage for the client
  
  

Commercial and Strategic Growth

• Deliver against revenue, margin, and operational KPIs
• Expand footprint across business units, channels, and services
• Shape AI differentiated proposals, RFP responses, and growth strategies
• Lead pricing strategy and commercial negotiations
• Identify and convert AI enabled upsell and cross sell opportunities
  
  

People and Leadership

• Lead and develop senior account leaders and cross functional teams
• Elevate AI fluency and foster a culture of experimentation and accountability
• Drive collaboration across regions and disciplines
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline across the account

About You

The essentials: 

• 15+ years in senior marketing or agency leadership roles
• Proven success managing and growing multi million dollar global accounts
• Deep understanding of marketing and production workflows
• Demonstrated experience translating business challenges into AI enabled solutions
• Experience leading transformation, workflow redesign, or enterprise change initiatives
• Strong executive presence with C level stakeholders
• Commercially sharp and operationally rigorous
• Experienced people leader
  
  

Success Is Measured By

• Revenue growth and margin expansion
• Executive level client trust and retention
• Scaled adoption of AI with measurable business impact
• Expansion across services and business units
• Operational efficiency and production scalability
• High performing, engaged teams

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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The Role

We are makers. We create because we are curious, and we believe that the best way to prove an idea works is to make it real.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is NOT a traditional Live-Action Head of Production role. While broadcast and live-action shoots are part of our ecosystem, we are seeking a deeply integrated leader with heavy digital, experiential, and tech-enabled production experience. If your background is exclusively in film and TV commercials, this is not the role for you.

As the Head of Integrated Production, you are the architect of "how." You will lead the building and evolution of our production function, ensuring that every piece of work—from a massive digital platform and global experiential activation to a brand launch campaign or a scrappy social asset—meets an uncompromising, world-class standard of excellence.

This is a modern production role for a new era. We are moving from a world of pure labor to a world of "Talent + Machines." You will lead this transformation, integrating AI-first workflows and complex tech stacks into our pipeline to drive efficiency without sacrificing soul. You will report directly to the Head of Creative, serving as a strategic partner who protects the integrity of the work while navigating the commercial and operational realities of one of the world's largest tech brands.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Innovation & AI Leadership

• Pioneer the New Workflow: You will not just oversee production; you will reinvent it. Lead the integration of Monks.Flow and proprietary AI tools into everyday operations, blending the speed of machines with the taste of human talent.
• Tech-Enabled Craft: Bridge the gap between artists, producers, and creative technologists. You must understand enterprise-level tech stacks and how to leverage them to create content that is "authored, not just automated."
• Future-Proofing: Continuously assess and implement new ways of working. You are responsible for ensuring our production capabilities stay ahead of the curve, moving from traditional timelines to the speed of modern tech.

Integrated Production Oversight

• 360 Scope: Oversee a massive variety of outputs with a heavy emphasis on digital: complex web builds, deep experiential activations, high-end animation, scaled digital content production, alongside heavy live-action (broadcast & social). You ensure epic execution across every format.
• Global Orchestration: Manage a dedicated internal team distributed globally, while seamlessly partnering with the broader Monks Content Studio for overflow and specialized needs. You are the conductor of a very complex orchestra.
• Quality Control: You are the final barrier against mediocrity. Ensure that "execution is everything" and that we never ship work that doesn't meet the absolute highest standard—clear, human, and useful.

Client Partnership & Commercial Rigor

• Executive Partnership: You serve as a key partner for both the team and the client, providing strategic guidance, support, and leadership, while contributing to growth initiatives and pitch efforts. You must build trust through transparency, demonstrating that you understand their business as well as you understand production.
• Commercial Health: Manage the financial health of the production department. You are responsible for scoping, vendor contracts, and ensuring we maximize profitability while delivering award-winning work.
• Vendor Ecosystem: Curate and manage relationships with top-tier external vendors, directors, and production partners. You ensure we have the best talent on speed dial.
• Advanced Estimation & Scoping Expertise: Demonstrated ability to build, challenge, and optimize complex production estimates across a wide range of outputs. From nimble, high-volume content pipelines to large-scale live-action shoots. Deep understanding of cost drivers, trade-offs, and how to balance creative ambition with commercial discipline.

Team Leadership & Culture

• Build the Bench: Recruit and mentor a team of hybrid producers—staff who can pivot from a six-figure shoot to an AI-generated social workstream with ease.
• Foster Maker Culture: Instill a culture where "making" is celebrated. Encourage your producers to be creative problem solvers who say "how we can" rather than "why we can't."

Qualifications

• Experience: 15+ years of hands-on production experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing large teams. Heavy digital, content and experiential production experience is an absolute requirement.
• AI Fluency: You don't just know about AI; you use it. You have a vision for how GenAI changes the economics and creativity of production.
• Multi-Disciplinary: Deep experience across live action, experiential, and digital. You must be comfortable discussing set design for an event one minute and render pipelines for a digital demo the next.
• Global Scale: Experience working with massive tech clients or global brands in a fast-paced environment is non-negotiable. You understand complex product areas and matrixed organizations.
• Operational Savvy: Strong grasp of production finance, legal contracting, and global resource management.
• Soft Skills: You are a "protector of vibes." You remain calm in the chaos, you negotiate with empathy, and you lead with a "people-first" mentality.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Innovation: Successful implementation of AI workflows that reduce time-to-market and cost while elevating creative output.
• Craft Excellence: Production quality that garners industry recognition and sets a new benchmark for tech-enabled creativity.
• Commercial Success: Delivering projects on budget and maintaining healthy profit margins for the account.
• Team Retention: Building a team that grows, advances, and stays because they are doing the best work of their careers.

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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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

About the Role

As SVP, Group Account Director, you are the executive lead for one of our most strategically important client relationships. You operate at the intersection of enterprise partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership, creative production excellence, and AI driven transformation.

You are both the commercial owner of the business and the architect of its AI enabled evolution.

In a fast moving, collaborative environment, you build senior level trust, diagnose complex business challenges, and design AI enabled operating models that drive measurable impact. You ensure fiscal health, production excellence, and long term growth while shaping how we deliver through scalable, AI powered workflows.

This role requires a strategic operator who sees transformation opportunities early and knows how to convert innovation into revenue, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

Executive Client Leadership and Transformation

• Align integrated marketing, creative, and production ecosystems to client business priorities and growth objectives
• Ensure programs drive measurable brand impact, commercial performance, and operational advantage across channels
• Act as executive sponsor for high impact initiatives, providing strategic oversight and cross functional alignment
• Orchestrate creative, media, technology, data, and AI capabilities to deliver differentiated, connected solutions
• Elevate the conversation from outputs to outcomes, positioning integrated delivery as a competitive advantage for the client
  
  

Commercial and Strategic Growth

• Deliver against revenue, margin, and operational KPIs
• Expand footprint across business units, channels, and services
• Shape AI differentiated proposals, RFP responses, and growth strategies
• Lead pricing strategy and commercial negotiations
• Identify and convert AI enabled upsell and cross sell opportunities
  
  

People and Leadership

• Lead and develop senior account leaders and cross functional teams
• Elevate AI fluency and foster a culture of experimentation and accountability
• Drive collaboration across regions and disciplines
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline across the account

About You

The essentials: 

• 15+ years in senior marketing or agency leadership roles
• Proven success managing and growing multi million dollar global accounts
• Deep understanding of marketing and production workflows
• Demonstrated experience translating business challenges into AI enabled solutions
• Experience leading transformation, workflow redesign, or enterprise change initiatives
• Strong executive presence with C level stakeholders
• Commercially sharp and operationally rigorous
• Experienced people leader
  
  

Success Is Measured By

• Revenue growth and margin expansion
• Executive level client trust and retention
• Scaled adoption of AI with measurable business impact
• Expansion across services and business units
• Operational efficiency and production scalability
• High performing, engaged teams

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-KW1

About the Role

We are makers. We create because we are curious, and we believe that the best way to prove an idea works is to make it real.

As the Creative Director, Interactive & Retail Experiences, you are the architect of the "magic moment"—that split second when a user touches a device and understands exactly why they need it. Reporting to the GCD of Emerging Experiences, you will own the digital manifestation of Google hardware and software in the physical world.

Your domain is the screen, but your context is the store. You will lead the creation of world-class interactive demos for global retail environments (Google Store, Best Buy, etc.) and event activations. You are a hybrid creative leader: part UX architect, part product designer, and part storyteller, capable of translating complex AI features into intuitive, playful, and "Google Grade" interactions.

Responsibilities:

Interactive Mastery & Product Storytelling

• Own the Demo: Lead the conceptualization and execution of on-device demos for new product launches (Pixel, Nest, Fitbit). You will turn technical specs into "show, don't tell" experiences that prove the product’s value instantly.
• Retail Pragmatism: Balance "big vision" creative thinking with the realities of the retail environment. Design experiences that are robust enough for thousands of interactions yet simple enough to engage a shopper in seconds.
• UX/UI Leadership: Direct teams of interactive designers, motion designers, and creative technologists. Ensure every swipe, tap, and transition meets the highest standards of craft and usability.

Strategic Innovation & Client Partnership

• Partner with Product: Collaborate deeply with Google’s hardware and retail marketing teams. You must be comfortable navigating complex stakeholder maps (Marketing, Product, Brand) to align creative vision with product roadmaps.
• Push the Possible: Challenge the status quo of "attract loops" and "feature lists." Innovate how we showcase AI and software features in ways that feel magical, not mechanical.
• Present with Authority: Lead client presentations with clarity and conviction. You are the expert in the room, guiding clients from the "what" to the "how".

AI & Future Workflows

AI Optimist: Embrace AI tools to supercharge your team’s workflow—from rapid UI prototyping to generative content creation. You don't just design for AI products; you design with AI tools.

About You

The essentials:

• Experience: 10+ years of creative experience with a focus on digital, interactive, or product design. At least 3+ years in a leadership role managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Deep UX/UI Fluency: You have a portfolio that demonstrates deep expertise in user experience and interface design. Product design experience is a significant plus.
• Retail/Tech Pedigree: Experience working with major tech clients or launching products in retail environments is highly preferred. You understand the "shopper journey" and how to interrupt it.
• Maker Mindset: You are hands-on. You can jump into Figma or Principle when needed, not just to fix, but to demonstrate an idea.
• Tech-Savvy: A strong understanding of hardware capabilities, software constraints, and the opportunities within the Android ecosystem.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Innovation: Successfully launching new demo formats that increase dwell time and engagement in retail.
• Craft Quality: delivering work that is recognized internally and externally as "Google Grade"—clear, human, and useful.

Client Trust: Becoming the "first call" for client partners when facing a new product launch challenge.

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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The Role

We are makers. We create because we are curious, and we believe that the best way to prove an idea works is to make it real.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is NOT a traditional Live-Action Head of Production role. While broadcast and live-action shoots are part of our ecosystem, we are seeking a deeply integrated leader with heavy digital, experiential, and tech-enabled production experience. If your background is exclusively in film and TV commercials, this is not the role for you.

As the Head of Integrated Production, you are the architect of "how." You will lead the building and evolution of our production function, ensuring that every piece of work—from a massive digital platform and global experiential activation to a brand launch campaign or a scrappy social asset—meets an uncompromising, world-class standard of excellence.

This is a modern production role for a new era. We are moving from a world of pure labor to a world of "Talent + Machines." You will lead this transformation, integrating AI-first workflows and complex tech stacks into our pipeline to drive efficiency without sacrificing soul. You will report directly to the Head of Creative, serving as a strategic partner who protects the integrity of the work while navigating the commercial and operational realities of one of the world's largest tech brands.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Innovation & AI Leadership

• Pioneer the New Workflow: You will not just oversee production; you will reinvent it. Lead the integration of Monks.Flow and proprietary AI tools into everyday operations, blending the speed of machines with the taste of human talent.
• Tech-Enabled Craft: Bridge the gap between artists, producers, and creative technologists. You must understand enterprise-level tech stacks and how to leverage them to create content that is "authored, not just automated."
• Future-Proofing: Continuously assess and implement new ways of working. You are responsible for ensuring our production capabilities stay ahead of the curve, moving from traditional timelines to the speed of modern tech.

Integrated Production Oversight

• 360 Scope: Oversee a massive variety of outputs with a heavy emphasis on digital: complex web builds, deep experiential activations, high-end animation, scaled digital content production, alongside heavy live-action (broadcast & social). You ensure epic execution across every format.
• Global Orchestration: Manage a dedicated internal team distributed globally, while seamlessly partnering with the broader Monks Content Studio for overflow and specialized needs. You are the conductor of a very complex orchestra.
• Quality Control: You are the final barrier against mediocrity. Ensure that "execution is everything" and that we never ship work that doesn't meet the absolute highest standard—clear, human, and useful.

Client Partnership & Commercial Rigor

• Executive Partnership: You serve as a key partner for both the team and the client, providing strategic guidance, support, and leadership, while contributing to growth initiatives and pitch efforts. You must build trust through transparency, demonstrating that you understand their business as well as you understand production.
• Commercial Health: Manage the financial health of the production department. You are responsible for scoping, vendor contracts, and ensuring we maximize profitability while delivering award-winning work.
• Vendor Ecosystem: Curate and manage relationships with top-tier external vendors, directors, and production partners. You ensure we have the best talent on speed dial.
• Advanced Estimation & Scoping Expertise: Demonstrated ability to build, challenge, and optimize complex production estimates across a wide range of outputs. From nimble, high-volume content pipelines to large-scale live-action shoots. Deep understanding of cost drivers, trade-offs, and how to balance creative ambition with commercial discipline.

Team Leadership & Culture

• Build the Bench: Recruit and mentor a team of hybrid producers—staff who can pivot from a six-figure shoot to an AI-generated social workstream with ease.
• Foster Maker Culture: Instill a culture where "making" is celebrated. Encourage your producers to be creative problem solvers who say "how we can" rather than "why we can't."

Qualifications

• Experience: 15+ years of hands-on production experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing large teams. Heavy digital, content and experiential production experience is an absolute requirement.
• AI Fluency: You don't just know about AI; you use it. You have a vision for how GenAI changes the economics and creativity of production.
• Multi-Disciplinary: Deep experience across live action, experiential, and digital. You must be comfortable discussing set design for an event one minute and render pipelines for a digital demo the next.
• Global Scale: Experience working with massive tech clients or global brands in a fast-paced environment is non-negotiable. You understand complex product areas and matrixed organizations.
• Operational Savvy: Strong grasp of production finance, legal contracting, and global resource management.
• Soft Skills: You are a "protector of vibes." You remain calm in the chaos, you negotiate with empathy, and you lead with a "people-first" mentality.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Innovation: Successful implementation of AI workflows that reduce time-to-market and cost while elevating creative output.
• Craft Excellence: Production quality that garners industry recognition and sets a new benchmark for tech-enabled creativity.
• Commercial Success: Delivering projects on budget and maintaining healthy profit margins for the account.
• Team Retention: Building a team that grows, advances, and stays because they are doing the best work of their careers.

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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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

About the Role

As SVP, Group Account Director, you are the executive lead for one of our most strategically important client relationships. You operate at the intersection of enterprise partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership, creative production excellence, and AI driven transformation.

You are both the commercial owner of the business and the architect of its AI enabled evolution.

In a fast moving, collaborative environment, you build senior level trust, diagnose complex business challenges, and design AI enabled operating models that drive measurable impact. You ensure fiscal health, production excellence, and long term growth while shaping how we deliver through scalable, AI powered workflows.

This role requires a strategic operator who sees transformation opportunities early and knows how to convert innovation into revenue, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

Executive Client Leadership and Transformation

• Align integrated marketing, creative, and production ecosystems to client business priorities and growth objectives
• Ensure programs drive measurable brand impact, commercial performance, and operational advantage across channels
• Act as executive sponsor for high impact initiatives, providing strategic oversight and cross functional alignment
• Orchestrate creative, media, technology, data, and AI capabilities to deliver differentiated, connected solutions
• Elevate the conversation from outputs to outcomes, positioning integrated delivery as a competitive advantage for the client
  
  

Commercial and Strategic Growth

• Deliver against revenue, margin, and operational KPIs
• Expand footprint across business units, channels, and services
• Shape AI differentiated proposals, RFP responses, and growth strategies
• Lead pricing strategy and commercial negotiations
• Identify and convert AI enabled upsell and cross sell opportunities
  
  

People and Leadership

• Lead and develop senior account leaders and cross functional teams
• Elevate AI fluency and foster a culture of experimentation and accountability
• Drive collaboration across regions and disciplines
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline across the account

About You

The essentials: 

• 15+ years in senior marketing or agency leadership roles
• Proven success managing and growing multi million dollar global accounts
• Deep understanding of marketing and production workflows
• Demonstrated experience translating business challenges into AI enabled solutions
• Experience leading transformation, workflow redesign, or enterprise change initiatives
• Strong executive presence with C level stakeholders
• Commercially sharp and operationally rigorous
• Experienced people leader
  
  

Success Is Measured By

• Revenue growth and margin expansion
• Executive level client trust and retention
• Scaled adoption of AI with measurable business impact
• Expansion across services and business units
• Operational efficiency and production scalability
• High performing, engaged teams

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

As a Strategy Director, you’ll deliver customer-centric, spatial, and retail strategic expertise for one of our top-tier technology clients. You will bring hardware and digital products to life through best-in-class events, global trade shows, pop-ups, in-store activations, and on-device content working closely with internal leadership to turn brand campaigns into welcoming interactive experiences. We are looking for a dynamic candidate to champion the "phygital" (physical + digital) landscape who is passionate about creating immersive environments and seeking new opportunities to create impactful work in an ever-evolving space. Your job is to define how our clients’ brands live, behave, and sell in the real world—and how those moments seamlessly connect to the purchase journey.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate client objectives and product roadmaps to design compelling physical footprints, defining how attendees move through a space—whether it is a global trade show booth or a local retail pop-up.
• Develop retail engagement strategies that drive product understanding and consideration, specifically for consumer electronics, phones, wearables, and smart home devices. Go beyond the data. Determine how people actually move through spaces to identify friction points and "magic moments" with these devices in a physical space.
• Strategize the connection between physical events and digital ecosystems, ensuring on-ground activations are amplified socially and digitally to drive earned media and long-term loyalty.
• Define what "success" looks like across the various experiences. Move beyond foot traffic to measure dwell time, sentiment, and digital behavior and conversions.
• Lead the strategic narrative for new business pitches within the experiential and retail sector, translating complex business challenges into innovative, spatial strategic visions that win work.
• Identify and pursue proactive growth opportunities within the US market to expand the agency's experiential portfolio.
• Cultivate strong relationships with senior marketing leaders at prospective client organizations, acting as a trusted advisor on the future of retail and events.
• Collaborate hand-in-glove with Creative Directors, Technologists, and Fabrication partners to ensure strategic concepts are feasible, buildable, and impactful.
• Champion high standards for interactive design, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in physical brand activations.

About You

The essentials:

• 9+ years of experience in strategy, specifically at least 5 years in experiential marketing, brand activation, and/or retail strategy.
• Must be based in the US (California or New York preferred).
• Current or recent experience working in an agency environment.
• Deep knowledge of consumer electronics, hardware, or tech brands, with an understanding of how to market a physical product in a physical space.
• Strong spatial awareness with the ability to look at a floor plan or a render and identify user journeys, dwell times, and engagement opportunities.
• Understand how to design for dopamine, belonging, and memory, not just for aesthetic appeal.
• Led or supported strategy for major global rollouts or high-impact "drop" culture activations.
• A proven track record of successfully winning new business and leading or supporting complex pitch processes for events or experiential agencies.
• Exceptional ability to articulate complex ideas (like AI integration or ecosystem connectivity) into simple, human-centric physical experiences.
• Resilience and adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment where event deadlines are immovable.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Experience working specifically with large-scale tech ecosystems.
• BA/BS/MA degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field.
• A portfolio demonstrating success in major trade shows (e.g., CES, MWC) or large-scale retail installations.

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

As a Strategy Director, you’ll deliver customer-centric, spatial, and retail strategic expertise for one of our top-tier technology clients. You will bring hardware and digital products to life through best-in-class events, global trade shows, pop-ups, in-store activations, and on-device content working closely with internal leadership to turn brand campaigns into welcoming interactive experiences. We are looking for a dynamic candidate to champion the "phygital" (physical + digital) landscape who is passionate about creating immersive environments and seeking new opportunities to create impactful work in an ever-evolving space. Your job is to define how our clients’ brands live, behave, and sell in the real world—and how those moments seamlessly connect to the purchase journey.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate client objectives and product roadmaps to design compelling physical footprints, defining how attendees move through a space—whether it is a global trade show booth or a local retail pop-up.
• Develop retail engagement strategies that drive product understanding and consideration, specifically for consumer electronics, phones, wearables, and smart home devices. Go beyond the data. Determine how people actually move through spaces to identify friction points and "magic moments" with these devices in a physical space.
• Strategize the connection between physical events and digital ecosystems, ensuring on-ground activations are amplified socially and digitally to drive earned media and long-term loyalty.
• Define what "success" looks like across the various experiences. Move beyond foot traffic to measure dwell time, sentiment, and digital behavior and conversions.
• Lead the strategic narrative for new business pitches within the experiential and retail sector, translating complex business challenges into innovative, spatial strategic visions that win work.
• Identify and pursue proactive growth opportunities within the US market to expand the agency's experiential portfolio.
• Cultivate strong relationships with senior marketing leaders at prospective client organizations, acting as a trusted advisor on the future of retail and events.
• Collaborate hand-in-glove with Creative Directors, Technologists, and Fabrication partners to ensure strategic concepts are feasible, buildable, and impactful.
• Champion high standards for interactive design, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in physical brand activations.

About You

The essentials:

• 9+ years of experience in strategy, specifically at least 5 years in experiential marketing, brand activation, and/or retail strategy.
• Must be based in the US (California or New York preferred).
• Current or recent experience working in an agency environment.
• Deep knowledge of consumer electronics, hardware, or tech brands, with an understanding of how to market a physical product in a physical space.
• Strong spatial awareness with the ability to look at a floor plan or a render and identify user journeys, dwell times, and engagement opportunities.
• Understand how to design for dopamine, belonging, and memory, not just for aesthetic appeal.
• Led or supported strategy for major global rollouts or high-impact "drop" culture activations.
• A proven track record of successfully winning new business and leading or supporting complex pitch processes for events or experiential agencies.
• Exceptional ability to articulate complex ideas (like AI integration or ecosystem connectivity) into simple, human-centric physical experiences.
• Resilience and adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment where event deadlines are immovable.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Experience working specifically with large-scale tech ecosystems.
• BA/BS/MA degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field.
• A portfolio demonstrating success in major trade shows (e.g., CES, MWC) or large-scale retail installations.

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

Monks is seeking a seasoned Strategy Director or Group Strategy Director to lead the strategic vision for one of the world’s most visible tech clients..

We are looking for a strategist who speaks the language of UX. You understand that a website isn't just a utility—it is a brand’s most powerful marketing engine. You know how to connect the dots between a big brand campaign and the navigational structure of a product page. You understand content strategy, site narratives, and user flows – and can author all of them. 

This isn’t a UX design role - no wireframing here. This is a UX strategy role where architecting the experience is partnered with a UX design lead. It is a role for a Savvy Storyteller who can command a room of client Marketing VPs and Product Leads with a simple, clear, articulation of the user experience. 

You will define how the ecosystem tells the brand story, where the user goes next, and why it matters for the customer journey.

Responsibilities:

1- Strategic Narrative & Pitching

• Sell the Vision: You are the lead author of the pitch deck for site strategy and digital experiences. You act as the bridge between the client’s Marketing goals and the digital reality. You frame structural changes (like a redesign or IA overhaul) as marketing opportunities that drive acquisition and brand love.
• Orchestrate the Journey: You move the conversation beyond "pages" to "journeys." You define how a user flows from an ad, to a landing page, to a product deep-dive, ensuring the narrative holds together.
• Persuasive Leadership: You partner with Client Directors to pitch proactive ideas. You can stand in front of a CMO or VP of Marketing and explain why the current web experience is hurting their brand metrics—and more importantly, how we fix it.

2- Web Ecosystem Strategy

• Marketing-Led UX: You define the Information Architecture (IA) and Content Strategy, but you do it with a marketer's mindset. You prioritize content based on user intent, conversion goals, and brand messaging hierarchies.
• Tame the Fragmentation: The ecosystem is massive. You help the client consolidate disparate microsites and tools into a cohesive brand experience that feels unified, not chaotic.
• Connect the Dots: You ensure our web strategy aligns with the client’s broader marketing calendar, product launches, and brand campaigns.

About You

The essentials:

• 10+ years of experience in Digital Strategy, UX Strategy, or Experience Strategy.
• Marketing DNA: You have worked at digital agencies where the website was treated as a primary marketing channel. You understand campaigns, content strategy, and brand positioning.
• Proven Pitch Experience: You have led or played a key role in winning pitches for large-scale digital projects.
• Core Skills:
• Expert proficiency in Keynote/Google Slides (your decks are persuasive narratives).
• Strong grasp of UX Fundamentals (IA, Wireframing concepts, User Research).
• Ability to connect UX improvements to Marketing KPIs (Engagement, Conversion, Sentiment).

What We Offer: 

• Strategic leadership over a high-profile digital ecosystem.
• A pivotal role in shaping how a global tech giant goes to market on the web.
• A collaborative, global team of Monks to help execute the vision you define.

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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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

The Role

We are makers. We create because we are curious, and we believe that the best way to prove an idea works is to make it real.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is NOT a traditional Live-Action Head of Production role. While broadcast and live-action shoots are part of our ecosystem, we are seeking a deeply integrated leader with heavy digital, experiential, and tech-enabled production experience. If your background is exclusively in film and TV commercials, this is not the role for you.

As the Head of Integrated Production, you are the architect of "how." You will lead the building and evolution of our production function, ensuring that every piece of work—from a massive digital platform and global experiential activation to a brand launch campaign or a scrappy social asset—meets an uncompromising, world-class standard of excellence.

This is a modern production role for a new era. We are moving from a world of pure labor to a world of "Talent + Machines." You will lead this transformation, integrating AI-first workflows and complex tech stacks into our pipeline to drive efficiency without sacrificing soul. You will report directly to the Head of Creative, serving as a strategic partner who protects the integrity of the work while navigating the commercial and operational realities of one of the world's largest tech brands.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Innovation & AI Leadership

• Pioneer the New Workflow: You will not just oversee production; you will reinvent it. Lead the integration of Monks.Flow and proprietary AI tools into everyday operations, blending the speed of machines with the taste of human talent.
• Tech-Enabled Craft: Bridge the gap between artists, producers, and creative technologists. You must understand enterprise-level tech stacks and how to leverage them to create content that is "authored, not just automated."
• Future-Proofing: Continuously assess and implement new ways of working. You are responsible for ensuring our production capabilities stay ahead of the curve, moving from traditional timelines to the speed of modern tech.

Integrated Production Oversight

• 360 Scope: Oversee a massive variety of outputs with a heavy emphasis on digital: complex web builds, deep experiential activations, high-end animation, scaled digital content production, alongside heavy live-action (broadcast & social). You ensure epic execution across every format.
• Global Orchestration: Manage a dedicated internal team distributed globally, while seamlessly partnering with the broader Monks Content Studio for overflow and specialized needs. You are the conductor of a very complex orchestra.
• Quality Control: You are the final barrier against mediocrity. Ensure that "execution is everything" and that we never ship work that doesn't meet the absolute highest standard—clear, human, and useful.

Client Partnership & Commercial Rigor

• Executive Partnership: You serve as a key partner for both the team and the client, providing strategic guidance, support, and leadership, while contributing to growth initiatives and pitch efforts. You must build trust through transparency, demonstrating that you understand their business as well as you understand production.
• Commercial Health: Manage the financial health of the production department. You are responsible for scoping, vendor contracts, and ensuring we maximize profitability while delivering award-winning work.
• Vendor Ecosystem: Curate and manage relationships with top-tier external vendors, directors, and production partners. You ensure we have the best talent on speed dial.
• Advanced Estimation & Scoping Expertise: Demonstrated ability to build, challenge, and optimize complex production estimates across a wide range of outputs. From nimble, high-volume content pipelines to large-scale live-action shoots. Deep understanding of cost drivers, trade-offs, and how to balance creative ambition with commercial discipline.

Team Leadership & Culture

• Build the Bench: Recruit and mentor a team of hybrid producers—staff who can pivot from a six-figure shoot to an AI-generated social workstream with ease.
• Foster Maker Culture: Instill a culture where "making" is celebrated. Encourage your producers to be creative problem solvers who say "how we can" rather than "why we can't."

Qualifications

• Experience: 15+ years of hands-on production experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing large teams. Heavy digital, content and experiential production experience is an absolute requirement.
• AI Fluency: You don't just know about AI; you use it. You have a vision for how GenAI changes the economics and creativity of production.
• Multi-Disciplinary: Deep experience across live action, experiential, and digital. You must be comfortable discussing set design for an event one minute and render pipelines for a digital demo the next.
• Global Scale: Experience working with massive tech clients or global brands in a fast-paced environment is non-negotiable. You understand complex product areas and matrixed organizations.
• Operational Savvy: Strong grasp of production finance, legal contracting, and global resource management.
• Soft Skills: You are a "protector of vibes." You remain calm in the chaos, you negotiate with empathy, and you lead with a "people-first" mentality.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Innovation: Successful implementation of AI workflows that reduce time-to-market and cost while elevating creative output.
• Craft Excellence: Production quality that garners industry recognition and sets a new benchmark for tech-enabled creativity.
• Commercial Success: Delivering projects on budget and maintaining healthy profit margins for the account.
• Team Retention: Building a team that grows, advances, and stays because they are doing the best work of their careers.

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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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

About the Role

As SVP, Group Account Director, you are the executive lead for one of our most strategically important client relationships. You operate at the intersection of enterprise partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership, creative production excellence, and AI driven transformation.

You are both the commercial owner of the business and the architect of its AI enabled evolution.

In a fast moving, collaborative environment, you build senior level trust, diagnose complex business challenges, and design AI enabled operating models that drive measurable impact. You ensure fiscal health, production excellence, and long term growth while shaping how we deliver through scalable, AI powered workflows.

This role requires a strategic operator who sees transformation opportunities early and knows how to convert innovation into revenue, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

Executive Client Leadership and Transformation

• Align integrated marketing, creative, and production ecosystems to client business priorities and growth objectives
• Ensure programs drive measurable brand impact, commercial performance, and operational advantage across channels
• Act as executive sponsor for high impact initiatives, providing strategic oversight and cross functional alignment
• Orchestrate creative, media, technology, data, and AI capabilities to deliver differentiated, connected solutions
• Elevate the conversation from outputs to outcomes, positioning integrated delivery as a competitive advantage for the client
  
  

Commercial and Strategic Growth

• Deliver against revenue, margin, and operational KPIs
• Expand footprint across business units, channels, and services
• Shape AI differentiated proposals, RFP responses, and growth strategies
• Lead pricing strategy and commercial negotiations
• Identify and convert AI enabled upsell and cross sell opportunities
  
  

People and Leadership

• Lead and develop senior account leaders and cross functional teams
• Elevate AI fluency and foster a culture of experimentation and accountability
• Drive collaboration across regions and disciplines
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline across the account

About You

The essentials: 

• 15+ years in senior marketing or agency leadership roles
• Proven success managing and growing multi million dollar global accounts
• Deep understanding of marketing and production workflows
• Demonstrated experience translating business challenges into AI enabled solutions
• Experience leading transformation, workflow redesign, or enterprise change initiatives
• Strong executive presence with C level stakeholders
• Commercially sharp and operationally rigorous
• Experienced people leader
  
  

Success Is Measured By

• Revenue growth and margin expansion
• Executive level client trust and retention
• Scaled adoption of AI with measurable business impact
• Expansion across services and business units
• Operational efficiency and production scalability
• High performing, engaged teams

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

We are makers. We create because we are curious, and we believe that the best way to prove an idea works is to make it real.

As the Creative Director, Interactive & Retail Experiences, you are the architect of the "magic moment"—that split second when a user touches a device and understands exactly why they need it. Reporting to the GCD of Emerging Experiences, you will own the digital manifestation of Google hardware and software in the physical world.

Your domain is the screen, but your context is the store. You will lead the creation of world-class interactive demos for global retail environments (Google Store, Best Buy, etc.) and event activations. You are a hybrid creative leader: part UX architect, part product designer, and part storyteller, capable of translating complex AI features into intuitive, playful, and "Google Grade" interactions.

Responsibilities:

Interactive Mastery & Product Storytelling

• Own the Demo: Lead the conceptualization and execution of on-device demos for new product launches (Pixel, Nest, Fitbit). You will turn technical specs into "show, don't tell" experiences that prove the product’s value instantly.
• Retail Pragmatism: Balance "big vision" creative thinking with the realities of the retail environment. Design experiences that are robust enough for thousands of interactions yet simple enough to engage a shopper in seconds.
• UX/UI Leadership: Direct teams of interactive designers, motion designers, and creative technologists. Ensure every swipe, tap, and transition meets the highest standards of craft and usability.

Strategic Innovation & Client Partnership

• Partner with Product: Collaborate deeply with Google’s hardware and retail marketing teams. You must be comfortable navigating complex stakeholder maps (Marketing, Product, Brand) to align creative vision with product roadmaps.
• Push the Possible: Challenge the status quo of "attract loops" and "feature lists." Innovate how we showcase AI and software features in ways that feel magical, not mechanical.
• Present with Authority: Lead client presentations with clarity and conviction. You are the expert in the room, guiding clients from the "what" to the "how".

AI & Future Workflows

AI Optimist: Embrace AI tools to supercharge your team’s workflow—from rapid UI prototyping to generative content creation. You don't just design for AI products; you design with AI tools.

About You

The essentials:

• Experience: 10+ years of creative experience with a focus on digital, interactive, or product design. At least 3+ years in a leadership role managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Deep UX/UI Fluency: You have a portfolio that demonstrates deep expertise in user experience and interface design. Product design experience is a significant plus.
• Retail/Tech Pedigree: Experience working with major tech clients or launching products in retail environments is highly preferred. You understand the "shopper journey" and how to interrupt it.
• Maker Mindset: You are hands-on. You can jump into Figma or Principle when needed, not just to fix, but to demonstrate an idea.
• Tech-Savvy: A strong understanding of hardware capabilities, software constraints, and the opportunities within the Android ecosystem.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Innovation: Successfully launching new demo formats that increase dwell time and engagement in retail.
• Craft Quality: delivering work that is recognized internally and externally as "Google Grade"—clear, human, and useful.

Client Trust: Becoming the "first call" for client partners when facing a new product launch challenge.

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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About the Role

As an Associate Director, Strategy, you’ll deliver customer-centric, spatial, and retail strategic expertise for one of our top-tier technology clients. You will bring hardware and digital products to life through best-in-class events, global trade shows, pop-ups, in-store activations, and on-device content working closely with internal leadership to turn brand campaigns into welcoming interactive experiences. We are looking for a dynamic candidate to champion the "phygital" (physical + digital) landscape who is passionate about creating immersive environments and seeking new opportunities to create impactful work in an ever-evolving space. Your job is to define how our clients’ brands live, behave, and sell in the real world—and how those moments seamlessly connect to the purchase journey.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate client objectives and product roadmaps to design compelling physical footprints, defining how attendees move through a space—whether it is a global trade show booth or a local retail pop-up.
• Develop retail engagement strategies that drive product understanding and consideration, specifically for consumer electronics, phones, wearables, and smart home devices. Go beyond the data. Determine how people actually move through spaces to identify friction points and "magic moments" with these devices in a physical space.
• Strategize the connection between physical events and digital ecosystems, ensuring on-ground activations are amplified socially and digitally to drive earned media and long-term loyalty.
• Define what "success" looks like across the various experiences. Move beyond foot traffic to measure dwell time, sentiment, and digital behavior and conversions.
• Lead the strategic narrative for new business pitches within the experiential and retail sector, translating complex business challenges into innovative, spatial strategic visions that win work.
• Identify and pursue proactive growth opportunities within the US market to expand the agency's experiential portfolio.
• Cultivate strong relationships with senior marketing leaders at prospective client organizations, acting as a trusted advisor on the future of retail and events.
• Collaborate hand-in-glove with Creative Directors, Technologists, and Fabrication partners to ensure strategic concepts are feasible, buildable, and impactful.
• Champion high standards for interactive design, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in physical brand activations.

About You

The essentials:

• 7 - 9 years of experience in strategy, specifically at least 5 years in experiential marketing, brand activation, and/or retail strategy.
• Must be based in the US (California or New York preferred).
• Current or recent experience working in an agency environment.
• Deep knowledge of consumer electronics, hardware, or tech brands, with an understanding of how to market a physical product in a physical space.
• Strong spatial awareness with the ability to look at a floor plan or a render and identify user journeys, dwell times, and engagement opportunities.
• Understand how to design for dopamine, belonging, and memory, not just for aesthetic appeal.
• Led or supported strategy for major global rollouts or high-impact "drop" culture activations.
• A proven track record of successfully winning new business and leading or supporting complex pitch processes for events or experiential agencies.
• Exceptional ability to articulate complex ideas (like AI integration or ecosystem connectivity) into simple, human-centric physical experiences.
• Resilience and adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment where event deadlines are immovable.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Experience working specifically with large-scale tech ecosystems.
• BA/BS/MA degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field.
• A portfolio demonstrating success in major trade shows (e.g., CES, MWC) or large-scale retail installations.

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. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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