About this Visual Product Designer role at Monks
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Visual Product Designer
We're looking for a Visual Product Designer with exceptional visual craft and a strong concepting mindset to help shape the direction of innovative digital products and experiences.
In this role, you'll go beyond execution by exploring ideas, developing visual concepts, and contributing to the visual direction of products from their earliest stages. You'll work closely with Design Leads, UX Designers, Motion Designers, Engineers, and cross-functional partners to translate product opportunities into compelling user experiences.
The ideal candidate combines strong visual craft with curiosity, strategic thinking, and a passion for emerging technologies. They are comfortable navigating ambiguity, exploring multiple directions, and using AI-powered tools as part of the creative process.
In this role you will:
- Contribute to the visual direction and creative development of digital products, experiences, and prototypes.
- Explore multiple concepts and design approaches before converging on a final solution.
- Translate product opportunities, high-level ideas, and briefs into tangible design concepts.
- Create compelling UI explorations, storyboards, mockups, and prototypes that communicate a vision effectively.
- Collaborate closely with UX, Motion, Engineering, and Design Leadership throughout the concepting process.
- Participate in workshops, brainstorming sessions, and creative explorations.
- Balance creativity with usability, feasibility, and product requirements.
- Present design rationale and explain the thinking behind proposed directions.
- Stay informed about design trends, emerging technologies, AI tools, and new interaction patterns.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate ideation, concept development, and visual exploration.
Skills
Hard Skills:
- Proficiency in Figma and modern product design workflows.
- Strong visual design fundamentals, including typography, hierarchy, composition, color, layout, and interaction design.
- Ability to create compelling visual concepts and translate abstract product opportunities into tangible experiences.
- Strong presentation and storytelling skills through mockups, prototypes, and design explorations.
- Working knowledge of UX principles and interaction design.
- Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and emerging design workflows.
- Understanding of design systems and the ability to work within established frameworks while exploring new directions.
- Strong understanding of Material Design principles and digital product design best practices.
Soft Skills:
- Strong conceptual thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Curiosity and willingness to explore multiple possibilities before settling on a solution.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and contribute structure to early-stage projects.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Receptive to feedback and comfortable iterating quickly.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and eager to learn.
- Good visual judgment and a strong point of view while remaining open to different perspectives.
Experience
- 4+ years of experience in Product Design, Visual Product Design, Visual Design, or Art Direction for digital products.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft, concept development, and product thinking.
- Experience contributing to early-stage explorations, creative direction, prototypes, or innovation-focused projects.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams in fast-paced environments.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
