SVP, Performance Creative Job at Monks Limited 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 who have 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. This 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.

Our ideal candidate is part creative visionary, part data-driven marketer : a leader who merges innovative thinking with proven expertise in high-volume digital creative, brand storytelling, and audience-first strategies. You relish partnering with C-Suite leaders and internal teams to set new standards in the intersection of creativity, technology, and measurable business gains. You are passionate about harnessing data and insights to power creativity at scale, mobilizing cross-disciplinary teams and next-gen tooling to elevate the effectiveness and efficiency of every asset and campaign. You thrive in driving creative culture, team scaling, and executional excellence at the intersection of media, data, and content.

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.

Oversee staffing, structure, and scalable processes for a rapidly growing creative team, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture.

Own the productization, delivery, and pricing strategy for Performance Creative and related services.

About You

The essentials :

Not a must, but a plus :

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.

What We Offer

Benefits

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

$220,000-$260,000 USD

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.