Art Director at Monks in Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

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About the Role

As an Art Director, you'll lead and elevate the visual quality of our creative work across a talented, multidisciplinary maker team. You will be hands-on, helping to guide and craft work spanning design, motion, animation, digital, and print. We are looking for someone who is a maker at heart, has strong design fundamentals, and is excited to explore how new tools like AI can speed up and improve the creative process. If you are passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work, this is the place for you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the creative execution of campaigns, adaptive content, and always-on communications across multiple channels and markets.
• Provide day-to-day creative direction and feedback across a multidisciplinary team, including design, motion, animation, digital, print, and emerging media.
• Partner with the Creaive Head of Studio to translate brand platforms and campaign ideas into exceptional creative execution.
• Work hands-on in Figma, AI creative tools, and other design platforms to refine layouts, evolve concepts, improve visual storytelling, and elevate overall craft.
• Jump into projects whenever needed to solve creative challenges, unblock teams, and improve the quality of the work.
• Guide the adaptation of global creative into culturally relevant executions while maintaining brand integrity.
• Elevate the quality of creative work through thoughtful feedback, hands-on collaboration, and strong creative judgment.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Strategy, Operations, Account, and Localization teams to deliver outstanding work efficiently and at scale.
• Help evolve creative templates, design resources, and best practices that support consistent, high-quality execution.
• Embrace emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, where they enhance the creative process and improve efficiency.

Scope

• Operates within the local creative team and serves as the primary creative craft enhancer lead for a multidisciplinary maker team.
• Partners closely with the Creative Head of Studio to maintain consistently high creative standards across projects and deliverables.
• Provides creative leadership across design, motion, animation, digital, print, and production workflows.
• Leads through craft, collaboration, and hands-on creative involvement.

About You

The essentials:

• You have 5+ years of experience in art direction, visual design, or a similar creative role within an agency, studio, or in-house team.
• You bring a strong portfolio showing high-quality craft across digital experiences, social content, and integrated campaigns.
• You are highly skilled in Figma and love being hands-on with design every day.
• You have a deep understanding of typography, layout, composition, and digital design principles.
• You have experience adapting global creative work for local markets while keeping brand consistency.
• You are a clear communicator and enjoy collaborating across different creative and production teams.
• You are curious about and comfortable using emerging AI creative tools (like generative image and video models) to help with ideation and production.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Experience creating visual assets for eCommerce platforms.
• Experience with motion design.

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.

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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.