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Role

Shanghai.monks, the Shanghai office of global creative company .monks, is looking for an exceptional APAC Creative Director. You’ll deliver creative solutions and drive pitches across a diverse range of clients. You’ll work across our eclectic network, with some of the most innovative minds in the industry at your disposal, driving growth and reputation through world class, award winning creative work. You’ll need to have a natural flair to make Chinese and APAC youth fall in love with the brands we work with, creating industry-defining campaigns for the worlds’ most iconic brands.

Responsibilities

• You’ll lead by example as a driving creative force, infusing your team with creative ambition and fostering talent
• You’ll also own the creative execution of projects, seeing them through from pitch to final delivery.
• You'll be collaborating with extraordinary creatives, copywriters, designers, innovators, tech creators, data specialists, developers and producers and a lot more talented people across our expanding .monks network.
• You’ll create not just what the client asked for but what their campaign needs, guiding and fostering their ambition in close and respectful collaboration, producing beautifully crafted decks that are in line with the project’s objectives and requirements.
• Working on multiple projects at once, you go above and beyond each brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level.
• Pitching directly to our clients, you’ll be shaping and selling groundbreaking concepts that live and breathe in contemporary, fully integrated campaign executions across every imaginable and relevant discipline.

Qualifications

• At least 12 years experience.
• You are bi-lingual in English & Chinese.
• You have abundant experience in the Lifestyle/Sports industry.
• This role requires you to come up with industry challenging ideas, and have the ability to present them in equally compelling decks that will make clients fall in love with your thinking.
• You know how to lead your team and provide clear creative direction and ownership over their projects.
• You can independently lead fast-paced pitches
• As part of a global company operating as one team across time zones, you need to be able to successfully direct work at a distance.

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.