Director - Design

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Design Director

to lead and elevate our global asset design capabilities. In this senior role, you'll shape the creative direction for international brands, steering a team of world-class designers, illustrators, animators, and art directors to deliver bold, innovative, and scalable design solutions.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead Global Design Vision: Define and oversee creative strategies that bring brands to life across diverse mediums, spanning branding, digital, motion, and print.
• Drive Innovation with AI & Emerging Tech: Leverage AI-driven design tools and workflows (e.g., generative AI for image creation, layout automation, or motion prototypes) to push boundaries in efficiency and creativity.
• Creative Leadership: Mentor, inspire, and guide a distributed global team, fostering a culture of design excellence, collaboration, and experimentation.
• Quality & Consistency: Ensure creative output meets the highest aesthetic standards, aligns with brand guidelines, and delivers impact across formats, platforms, and markets.
• Strategic Partnering: Work closely with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to shape creative narratives, define design systems, and deliver world-class brand experiences.
• Operational Mastery: Balance speed, scale, and style, overseeing design pipelines, optimizing workflows, and ensuring efficiency without compromising quality.
• Creative Exploration: Continuously explore trends in design, AI, and technology to elevate creative outcomes and inspire innovative solutions for global campaigns.
  

Requirements

We're looking for a

Design Director

with proven expertise in creative leadership and advanced design execution:

• Experience: 12+ years of high-level design experience, including at least 4 years in a leadership or director role overseeing branding, digital, and motion design.
• AI & Tech Proficiency: Strong understanding of AI-powered design tools (e.g., MidJourney, DALLE, Runway, Stable Diffusion, or Adobe Firefly) and ability to integrate them into creative workflows.
• Design Mastery: Exceptional command of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Figma. Proficiency in After Effects is essential; experience in 3D (Blender, Cinema 4D) is a significant advantage.
• Global Collaboration: Skilled at working with international teams across time zones, with excellent communication and client-facing skills in English.
• Creative Excellence: A portfolio that demonstrates innovation, storytelling, and high-level craft across branding, motion, and integrated campaigns.
• Organizational Strength: Strong ability to manage complex projects, streamline creative workflows, and uphold file, layer, and asset management best practices.
• Leadership: Proven ability to mentor teams, present ideas to C-level stakeholders, and align creative direction with business and brand strategy.
  

Why Monks

At Monks, you'll join a crazy-ambitious global team on a mission to become the world's leading creative production partner. You'll be part of a collaborative network of 8,000+ Monks across several locations around the globe, working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and design innovation.If you're ready to shape the future of design at scale and harness the power of AI and emerging tech to redefine brand storytelling - we'd love to meet you.LI-PP1