Creative Director, Art Direction

Monigle Associates

$135K — $165K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of advertising creative experience with a strong portfolio showing conceptual range and distinct visuals.
  • Hands-on proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and AI creative tools.
  • Exceptional creative taste with a proven passion for every aspect of the work.
  • Fluency in how visual content performs across platforms and media.
  • Experience in sectors such as health and wellness, financial services, or destination brands a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the visual concept and art direction for major campaigns from brief to production.
  • Create performance-driven content across various media.
  • Collaborate with diverse teams to ensure creative integrity throughout projects.
  • Maintain agility in fast-paced projects and navigate multi-layered brand launches.
  • Utilize AI tools to enhance creativity without compromising original content.
  • Contribute to brainstorming and pitching ideas for new business opportunities.

Benefits

  • Ample paid time off to recharge and reset.
  • 401K options with employer match.
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and life insurance premiums for employees.
  • Optional vision, life, and disability coverage.
  • Paid maternity leave.
Full Job Description
Creative Director, Art Direction at Monigle

The Role

We're looking for a Creative Director, Art Director who is more than a talented visual thinker • you're a strategic force, a master of craft and a dynamic presence who can sell ideas through imagery, design, and visual storytelling that captures both imagination and heart.

The Details
  • You have some experience in a leadership role or are ready to make the leap into the next phase of your amazing career. Either way, you're a team player who can translate a brief into a distinctive visual language and see that vision through with the highest degree of creativity and quality.
  • You're a positivity magnet, someone who rallies teams and excites clients with equal parts artistic conviction and collaborative generosity.
  • You're a performance-driven pro who can create at any altitude • being as comfortable on a shoot with clients as you are perfecting the details on the smallest of activation tactics.
  • You'll report to our Executive Creative Director and partner closely with our Creative Director, Copy. Together, you're the creative engine of the growing department • leading the work, building business, and contributing to our dynamic culture.

What You'll Do

Lead the work. Own the visual concept and art direction on major campaigns from brief through production. Establish the aesthetic language, make the craft decisions, and push the work past the expected • across media and throughout the funnel.

Create across media. Performance-driven creativity is our rocket fuel for solving problems. You have perspective on how to earn attention and spark engagement at the outset of every project.

Partner and elevate. Here, we are each other's people. You'll collaborate with strategy, digital, visual designers, verbalist, client services, studio artists, and production to ensure creative integrity across every handoff and every touchpoint is a seamless exchange.

Move with purpose. You're nimble by nature, and equally comfortable in a fast-turn social brief and multi-layered brand launch. You show up where needed and respect timelines without letting them flatten the work.

Use AI as a creative accelerator. Neither a crutch nor a novelty, we embrace AI tools as part of how you explore, visualize, and pressure-test ideas. We want someone who's already figured out how to make them serve the work, and who isn't afraid to push into new territory.

Contribute to new business. Help concept and pitch ideas that win.

Your Experience
  • 7+ years of creative experience in advertising, with a portfolio that demonstrates genuine conceptual range and strong, distinctive visual thinking across formats.
  • Exceptional creative taste, and a demonstrated passion and point of view for every facet of the work.
  • Hands-on proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and AI creative tools (Gemini, MidJourney, Firefly, Runway, or equivalent).
  • Proven fluency in today's media landscape: how visual content behaves across platforms, how performance creative works, how channels can shape ideas.
  • Experience working in health and wellness, financial services and destination brands a plus.
  • The presence to present and represent the work, our group and our agency with conviction.
  • We are also hiring for CD, Copy, so we are open to interviewing teams.

Lastly•

We can't wait to meet you!

Salary range: $135,000 - $165,000
  • Final salary will be determined based on seniority, merit, geographic location, education, training and experience • reach out to us to learn more.

Our people take care of us, so we take care of our people. Enjoy:
  • Ample paid time off to recharge and reset
  • 401K: traditional and Roth options, plus employer match
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental and life insurance premiums for employees
  • Optional vision, life, short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Paid maternity leave

If you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, but feel you have something unique to contribute to Monigle, we'd love to hear from you. Please do apply and tell us more about you in your cover letter.

Application Deadline: May 13, 2026

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