About the Role

Media.Monks is looking for a talented Art Director to join our Riyadh office and craft digital content, campaigns, and assets for amazing brands across the Middle East. 

Responsibilities

• You’ll specialise in designing digital marketing assets for a wide variety of channels, predominantly social media. 
• You’ll make sure designs are slick and in line with client expectations and target audience.
• You’ll help translate creative/client briefs into thorough design briefs.
• You go above and beyond the brief to push the boundaries when it comes to digital designs and aesthetics.
• You’ll help to create style proposals, sketches and mockups to kickstart new projects.
• You’re able to work quickly and through multiple iterations while maintaining strong attention to detail and timelines. 
• You’ll collaborate with our existing team of designers, copywriters, and creative leads to produce high-quality integrated visual designs.
• You are flexible when it comes to working hours on specific projects.
• For some projects, you’ll set the style; for others, you’ll help safeguard predefined styles.
• You’ll ensure that designs adhere to guidelines, are consistent across formats and look pixel perfect in any dimension.
• You’ll look after the art direction process and help improve the work by offering new angles, best practices and practical solutions — guaranteeing projects meet and exceed our standards.

Background & Skills

• You’re a technically skilled designer with 5+ years of experience as an art director crafting digital designs and advertising materials.
• As showcased in your portfolio, your Photoshop skills are so slick, they look shopped.
• Working with clients and colleagues around the world, you also need to have strong communication skills.

• You have experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualising styles to finalising layouts and rolling out designs across markets and formats.
• Creating balanced and beautiful layouts is your second nature, or just something you’re good at.
• You have an articulate 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 present designs to colleagues and clients alike.

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At Media.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 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