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About The Role As a Senior Art Director, you'll be a hands-on creative force within a multidisciplinary team led by the Group Creative Director. You’ll help bring big ideas to life, executing standout work across digital, social, and video while maintaining a sharp eye for craft, storytelling, and design excellence. You’ll operate in the details - designing, building, and refining creative assets - while contributing to broader campaign narratives and visual systems. This role blends strong conceptual thinking with pixel-perfect execution. You’ll collaborate closely with Creative Directors, Designers, Copywriters, Producers, and Strategists to deliver work that feels native to the platform, on-brand for Amazon, and scalable across markets.

We’re looking for a Senior Art Director who’s fluent in digital design, comfortable shaping narratives through visuals, and excited to help create high-volume, high-quality creative at speed. You need to have strong design craft and AI fluency to help evolve and activate an established brand design system across multiple sub-brands and channels. This role is not about pitching new brands or reinventing the wheel. It’s about bringing an existing brand system to life, pushing it forward thoughtfully, and expressing it with clarity, consistency, and creative ambition at scale. You’ll work deeply on one multi-brand ecosystem, across many workstreams and channels, building concepts, visual systems, and executions that feel fresh while remaining unmistakably on-brand. This role is about deep brand ownership, system thinking, and craft

Responsibilities

• Create and execute visual concepts across digital, social, and video formats.
• Develop layouts, mockups, prototypes, and production-ready assets with a high level of polish.
• Safeguard visual quality across all deliverables, maintaining consistency with Amazon’s design system and narrative tone of voice (“Charm and Disarm”).
• Contribute to style frames and visual systems that scale across formats, regions, and channels.
• Support campaign storytelling through visual development and storyboarding.
• Help translate creative briefs into compelling visual narratives, particularly for motion, film, and animation-based work.
• Partner with Copywriters and Creative Directors to ensure ideas land clearly and emotionally.
• Use AI tools daily to support concepting, exploration, and iteration
• Generate AI visual options efficiently without compromising brand accuracy
• Apply strong judgment to when AI is helpful and when traditional craft is better
• Work closely with the Group Creative Director and broader creative team to execute campaigns from concept through delivery.
• Collaborate with Strategists, Account Leads, and Producers to ensure creative aligns with project goals and timelines.
• Participate in daily stand-ups and creative reviews to maintain alignment and momentum.
• Use Figma confidently for collaborative design, layout development, and feedback cycles.
• Help produce assets at scale using tools and workflows, including AI-assisted production.
• Contribute ideas to improve creative processes, templates, and efficiencies.
• Stay current on design trends, platform best practices, and emerging creative formats.
• Maintain high standards across all outputs, ensuring thoughtful design, strong storytelling, and attention to detail.
• Take ownership of assigned deliverables from start to finish.

About You The essentials:

• 5+ years of experience as a Senior Designer, Lead Designer, or Art Director within advertising or production environments.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking and execution across digital, social, and video.
• Advanced Photoshop skills, with experience creating high-volume digital assets.
• Comfortable working in Figma within collaborative environments.
• Experience across all stages of the design process—from concepting styles to final delivery across formats and markets.
• Strong foundation in typography, layout, visual hierarchy, and storytelling.
• Established working knowledge of AI tools in a design workflow, with a strong eye for realism, accuracy, and detail
• Ability to clearly present and sell creative ideas internally and to clients.
• Strong English communication skills and comfort working with global teams.
• Detail-oriented with a strong eye for design and storytelling.
• Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable taking creative direction while contributing ideas.
• Adaptable and energized by fast-paced environments.
• Positive team player who communicates openly and thoughtfully.
• Motivated by craft, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Not a Must, But a Plus

• Film or animation production experience, including storyboarding and narrative development.

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. Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws. This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time. Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status. Salary Range$80,000—$100,000 CAD

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.