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About Monks
Monks is a global, digital-first brand operating at the intersection of creativity, technology, and culture. We create integrated experiences, campaigns, content, platforms, and brand systems for some of the world’s most ambitious companies.
We’re looking for an Art Director to join our APAC Hub team based remotely in Kuala Lumpur, supporting AUNZ and wider APAC markets. This role sits between design craft and creative leadership, making it ideal for a senior creative who has evolved from strong executional design into conceptual art direction.
You’ll help shape visual territories, lead campaign thinking, guide designers, and bring modern creative workflows into the way we work. At Monks, we expect creatives to embrace emerging technologies and technology-enabled workflows as part of contemporary creative practice.
Role & Responsibilities
Conceptual Thinking & Art Direction
- Develop compelling visual concepts and creative territories across integrated campaigns, social, branding, digital, and content experiences.
- Translate strategy and creative direction into visually engaging narratives and scalable design systems.
- Create mood boards, mock-ups, presentations, and visual explorations that bring ideas to life.
- Push creative thinking beyond the brief by introducing new approaches, references, and contemporary visual culture.
- Present and articulate creative ideas clearly to both internal teams and clients.
Creative Leadership
- Guide and mentor designers across projects while helping elevate overall creative quality.
- Collaborate with Creative Directors and cross-functional teams to shape creative direction across multiple workstreams.
- Provide feedback and creative oversight throughout concept development and execution.
- Help maintain consistency across campaigns, platforms, and regional adaptations.
Craft & Execution
- Maintain a high standard of visual craft across digital, social, branding, campaign, motion-aware, and experiential outputs.
- Oversee and hands-on with design, typography, composition, imagery, and visual storytelling across multiple formats and touchpoints.
- Ensure concepts are scalable and production-aware across channels and markets.
- Integrate AI-powered creative tools into ideation, visual development, workflow efficiencies, and creative exploration while maintaining originality and quality.
- Apply strong creative judgement when evaluating AI-assisted outputs and emerging creative technologies.
- Support production teams with clear creative intent and thoughtful handoff processes.
Systems & Workflow
- Help improve creative processes, efficiencies, templates, and collaborative workflows.
- Balance creativity with operational thinking in fast-paced environments.
- Explore evolving workflows and emerging technologies that improve both creative quality and team efficiency.
- Contribute to scalable ways of working across distributed teams and markets.
Requirements
- 6–8 years of experience across design, campaigns, branding, social, and digital creative environments.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, art direction, and high-level craft execution.
- Proven ability to lead visual development from idea through execution.
- High proficiency across Figma, Google Slides, and the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Strong understanding of digital platforms, integrated campaigns, social-first storytelling, and motion-aware design.
- Ability to guide designers and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with fluent English proficiency.
- Strong understanding of creative systems, scalability, and production workflows.
- Comfortable managing multiple projects and priorities in fast-moving environments.
- Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and emerging technologies such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Veo, Figma AI, or similar platforms.
Nice to Have
- Experience working across APAC markets.
- Automotive, luxury, technology, or lifestyle brand experience.
- Motion or film production knowledge.
- Experience working within distributed global teams.
What We Value
- Strong visual opinions backed by strong craft.
- Creatives who think beyond execution and influence creative direction.
- Curiosity, experimentation, and continuous evolution.
- Collaborative people who elevate the work and the team around them.
- A modern mindset toward technology-enabled creativity and innovation.
- Individuals who combine creativity, systems thinking, and cultural awareness.
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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.
