Monks
Creative Director - Copy (Future Opportunity)
Monks, Detroit, MI
***Monks is considering Creatives at all levels. This role is set to begin in early 2025.***
About the Role
Monks is seeking a talented Creative Director - Copy to join our team, focusing on our prestigious automotive client. In this role, you'll provide our client with social-first creative campaigns, ideas, and direction, driving their success in the social media landscape. The Creative Director will manage, guide, and create the social media communication layer of our client's vision. You will inspire the creativity and strategic thinking of your team, navigating the ever-evolving social media trends and platforms.
Responsibilities:
Working Conditions:
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.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI-managed by the industry's best and most diverse digital talent-to help the world's trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek's Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
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.
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 Monks may reach out to potential candidates via LinkedIn, we will always ask applicants to apply through our website (https://monks.com/careers) and will never ask for payment or bank account information during the recruitment process.
About the Role
Monks is seeking a talented Creative Director - Copy to join our team, focusing on our prestigious automotive client. In this role, you'll provide our client with social-first creative campaigns, ideas, and direction, driving their success in the social media landscape. The Creative Director will manage, guide, and create the social media communication layer of our client's vision. You will inspire the creativity and strategic thinking of your team, navigating the ever-evolving social media trends and platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Be the creative steward for our automotive client's social media presence
- Own the creative execution of social media projects from pitch to final delivery
- Focus on insight driven social-first storytelling that inspires our client
- Present to the client, showcasing the viral potential of our ideas
- Develop client relationships, ensuring a well-connected partnership
- Digest feedback and communicate it to your teams, keeping the creative engines revving
- Participate in hiring decisions, fostering creativity, and offering a point of view on team composition and structure
- Influence creative-led thinking across the agency's social media efforts
- Lead concept development in relation to social media design and creative work
- Partner with your ECD, Strategy Directors, and Design Leads to continuously improve the team's capabilities
- Ensure social media creative projects are delivered on time and on budget
- Provide quality control over your team's social media output
- At least 2 years of CD-level experience in advertising or production, with a strong focus on social media
- MUST HAVE: Social and Automotive Experience
- Ability to come up with buzzworthy social media ideas and present them in compelling decks
- Have a deep understanding of AI, and how AI creative tools can be used to uplevel creative ideas and create quickturn solutions for our client
- Take ownership of entire social media campaigns, providing strong leadership and direction
- Digital genius with an innate taste for the latest social media platforms, trends, and technologies
- Confident leading different types of social media work, from organic and paid campaigns to influencer partnerships and activations
- Champion social-first storytelling and experienced working with content creators, influencers, and social media managers
- Strong pitching and presentation skills to represent Monks and showcase our social media prowess
- Ensure social media designs and content reflect consistency and positivity towards our client's brand image
- Direct teams across time zones and manage social media work at a distance
- Understand the process and politics of social media advertising and know when to be pragmatic
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and adjust to last-minute requests or revisions
Working Conditions:
- The role may involve long hours and tight deadlines, requiring flexibility and a commitment to maintaining high standards under pressure. Collaboration with teams across different locations and time zones is frequently necessary.
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.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI-managed by the industry's best and most diverse digital talent-to help the world's trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek's Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
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.
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 Monks may reach out to potential candidates via LinkedIn, we will always ask applicants to apply through our website (https://monks.com/careers) and will never ask for payment or bank account information during the recruitment process.