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About the Role

As an AI Image Lead, you’ll focus on enhancing production workflows across  Monksflow Agentic Studios. This role merges  artistic vision with cutting-edge AI technologies to produce exceptional  visual content and enhance artistic workflows. We are looking for someone who is passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work.

Responsibilities:

PITCH

• Support ongoing client pitches that drive R&D against real-world challenges, transforming insights into winning proposals  that are pushing our craft towards transformation on every level of the creative execution flow.
• Work with various discipline leads collaborating on workflow and R&D so that we represent the best of NOW. 
  
  

R&D 

• Push creative craft and development of R&D projects that showcase creative excellence through AI-enabled workflows.
• Engage in both client-directed R&D as well as proactive R&D to explore meaningful transformation in craft.
• Collaborate with a wider studio transformation team to ensure rapid and effective results across disciplines.

PIPELINE TRANSFORMATION - MONKS FLOW INTEGRATION 

• Drives generative AI photo workflow transformation, ensuring production processes are updated and tested for optimal craft delivery.
• Support automation teams to ensure integrate new processes into existing Monks AI related workflows &  toolstacks.
• Proactively review and test new tools to keep workflows current in a rapidly evolving landscape. 
  
  

SOCIAL AMBASSADOR

• Strong abilities in Google Workspace.
• Represent our craft voice in social media channels, sharing insights and developments in the AI Photography space.
• Lead net new R&D and maintain a  weekly posting cadence into the new and unknown to shape the conversation  on where “photography” is heading.
• Reviewing new tool stacks and features as part of the ongoing jobs and workflows.
  
  

CREATIVE CRAFT EXCELLENCE / AWARDS  

• Champion excellence in craft, pushing the boundaries of making day to day, project to project. Ensuring that we activate creative workflows that are new and pushing transformation of craft into the “never been done before area”.
• Proven track record in winning awards and recognition.
  
  

EDUCATION & KNOWLEDGE SHARING

• Lead internal and external education; developing BTS and educational case studies that allow us to craft transformation in photography. 

About You

The essentials:

• Creative solutions are what you live and breathe, transitioning ideas to transformation by tech is what you love.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills.
• Must be extremely organized, detail-oriented and capable of self-managing and multitasking in a fast-paced, demanding environment.
• Excellent creative problem-solving skills.
• Able to apply critical and strategic thinking.
• Stress-tolerant, quick-thinking and accurate.
• Able to quickly understand new technology concepts.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills as a team leader and team player.
• Flexibility, initiative, dedication and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• A sense of humor, outgoing, articulate, well-informed, intelligent, confident and possessing common sense.
• A skilled, creative, confident presenter and negotiator.
• Fluent in spreadsheets (Google Sheets preferred).
• Strong abilities in Google Workspace.
  
  

PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS 

• Compelling portfolio showcasing creativity, technical skills and AI-integrated work.
• Proven experience in production environments, such as photo studios, design studios or post production studios. 
  
  

TOOLS SKILLS

• Strong abilities in Google Workspace.
• Proficient in the Adobe toolstack.
• Adobe (Firefly), MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, Magnific / Krea, and 3D Tooling. 
  
  

Not a must, but a plus:

• Chat GPT, Runway, LUMA, Eleven Labs.

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What We Offer

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.

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.