Job Description

Note: This is a 12-month contract position based in our Kuala Lumpur Office. Media.Monks is a digital-first marketing and advertising services company connecting the dots across content, data and digital media and technology services. Inspired by the connectivity and flexibility of technology APIs, Media.Monks\' single-P&L model offers brands seamless access to a nearly 6,000-strong team of digital talent organized across 57 talent hubs in 33 countries. You\'ll find a diverse group of colleagues with different backgrounds and perspectives with us. We believe everyone has something of value to offer and that sustaining a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace begins with fostering an environment where people can be themselves authentically every day. We want to build something with the potential to change the heart of our industry, and we\'d love to include your unique perspective. We are looking for an ideas-first Senior Art Director to take the lead in thinking up social ads and assets for an awesome fintech brand. This role focuses on social - which means that we are often looking for editorial ideas, as opposed to only campaigns. The position is all about harmonizing speed, style and scale to produce loads of good-looking assets at a steady pace. Role & Responsibilities You\'ll create style proposals, sketches, mockups and prototypes to kickstart the design for products, features and new campaigns. Your main responsibilities will be to bring ideas and execution to the table. You\'ll be tasked with coming up with ideas that can be executed month after month, with uncomplicated variations - whilst staying fresh and interesting in a quick turnaround environment You\'ll partner with a copywriter team and designers that, together with strategists, will conceptualize and execute content ideas that fit our clients global content calendar. Working for one of the world\'s most well-known fintech brands, you\'ll make sure ideas and designs are awesome and in line with expectations. You\'ll look after the execution of the art direction and help to improve the work by offering new angles, inspiration, best practices and practical solutions. You\'ll help translate creative/client briefs into high-quality campaigns. Pixel perfectness is important, so you\'ll safeguard quality at all times. Working alongside the Creative Director and the team, you\'ll make sure our designs and processes are in line with the client\'s objectives and expectations. Come Create Stuff for the Coolest Brands. Please be attentive to the requirements for this role and accompany your portfolio with a custom cover letter detailing why you\'re the right designer for the job. Requirements You\'re a technically skilled Art Director with 7+ years of high-level experience as senior/lead art director crafting digital ads and assets. You\'re an energetic, highly-motivated individual, who can push people forward and elevate the ideation and craft standards of the team. As showcased in your portfolio, your Photoshop skills are super slick. Figma is a must! You\'ll need to have strong English communication skills for working with clients and colleagues around the world. You have experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualizing styles to finalizing layouts and rolling out designs across markets and formats. Coming up with strong ideas and being able to propose exciting ways to execute them visually is second nature to you. You also know a thing or two about templating and process optimisations. With an understanding of fundamentals such as typography, interaction design, flow and storytelling, you can get teams to improve the work on both an aesthetic and functional level. You know how to sell designs to colleagues and clients alike, and ideally have some experience doing client presentations. About Media.Monks Media.Monks is the purely digital operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 8,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels: we maintain a constant presence on Adweek\'s Fastest Growing lists (2019-22), regular recognition at Cannes Lions, inclusion in AdExchanger\'s Programmatic Power Players (2020-23), the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-23), a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek\'s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023. Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth. While we continue to grow our teams, please be mindful of fraudulent job postings and recruiting activities that may use our company name and information. Please be mindful to protect your personal information, especially your national identification number, and bank account information during a recruiting process. While Media.Monks may reach out to potential candidates via LinkedIn, we will always ask applicants to apply through our website (https://media.monks.com/careers) and will never ask for payment or bank account information during the recruitment process. Disclaimer Responsible for resourcing and implementing security controls for your teams processes and systems Responsible that all your personnel apply information security in accordance with the established information security policy

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