Monks is hiring : SVP, Performance Creative in Seattle

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About The Role

As a SVP, Performance Creative, you’ll lead a team of 35 and growing across creative production, animation and design, creative strategy, and commerce content. The team has earned a number of high‑profile award wins from The Drum, Digiday, and Meta for their work. Bonus points for experience leading influencer campaigns and UGC‑style advertising for performance advertisers.

The role is a senior leadership position within Monks’ Performance Media division. Reporting to the EVP of Digital Media over the Mid‑Market Performance team, you’ll partner with other leaders, including the SVP, Digital Strategy, and media channel leads, to elevate and evolve the creative impact for our largest, fastest‑growing, and most innovative clients.

You will be accountable for creative excellence, executive client relationships, full‑funnel creative leadership, and for advancing Monks’ reputation as a pioneer in performance‑driven content and storytelling.

Responsibilities

Creative & Strategic Leadership

• Lead the vision and strategy for the Performance Creative unit of our Media team, innovating on full‑funnel, insight‑driven creative assets that deliver measurable results.
• Guide clients and teams through the dynamic landscape of creative innovation for paid social, display, video, UGC, influencer content, and emerging platforms.
• Leverage creative testing frameworks, audience insights, and performance analytics to inform ideation, production, iteration, and optimization processes.
• Advise clients on the integration and scaling of generative AI, automation, and technology in creative production and operations.
• Drive adoption of cutting‑edge technologies and AI tools to optimize creative operations and output.
• Partner with brand and growth teams to develop foundational stories, rapid tests, and breakthrough campaigns across channels.
• Provide a point of view on leading topics such as UGC, creative automation, global content production, and scaling impact for growth brands.
• Stay ahead of digital, media, and content trends, ensuring Monks’ creative output sets the industry standard.
• Oversee creative resourcing, processes, and playbooks to maximize internal efficiency, creative quality, and revenue growth.
• Serve as Executive Sponsor for some of our largest performance‑driven client accounts, providing strategic creative direction at the highest levels.

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Benefits

Salary Range $220,000—$260,000 USD

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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 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.

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