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Monks is looking to expand our creative service capabilities by hiring a full-time Senior 2D/3D Animator. Reporting to the Associate Director of Animation, you will be a trailblazer helping to build the creative offering for a top performance marketing agency. You will partner with our media buying team and alongside clients to develop creative that drives results. We are looking for a fast, flexible go-getter with a sharp eye, adept skills, and the drive to deliver top-notch creative for our clients.
Required Skill Set
You'll be responsible for animating paid media ads for digital channels (including but not limited to Facebook, Google, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube) both net-new and from existing client materials. You'll be somewhat of a motion generalist, at times jumping from animation into short-form video editing.
Creative:
- Collaborate with our designers and producers, working together to create ads driving performance results for our client's media programs
- Strong time management, leading multiple motion-based projects with tight timelines
- Project managing yourself, fluidly jumping between multiple projects
- Owning revision + resizing projects for our largest clients
- Conceptualize animated content optimized for paid media channels
- Possessing an understanding or willingness to learn paid media channel best practices
- Fluency in the Adobe Creative Cloud, focused in After Effects + Premiere Pro
Soft Skills:
- Self-starter, problem-solver & team-player
- Effectively communicate animation concepts, ideas and limitations to creative and non-creative teammates. Will be asked to articulate animation choices and defend decisions
- Offer new angles, best practices and practical solutions to our motion design workflows
- Openness to team and client feedback
- Be eager to push the limits within your work and your personal development
Qualifications:
- 4-6 years technical experience with motion design and video editing, preferably at a performance-focused agency
- Portfolio is required
- In-depth knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite with proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Premiere
- Experience in paid media ad animation
- 4 year college degree (preferably in design) or equivalent work experience
Not a Must, But a Plus:
- Experience with HTML5 ad animation
- Experience using Gen AI tools for ad builds and concepting
- Experience building versioning workflows or working with automated versioning tools
- Familiarity with Google suite
- B2C and B2B experience
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About Monks
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show's inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group's 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato's AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.
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.
