Senior Content Creator, Brand Film Director Job at Monks Limited in New York

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About The Role
As a Senior Content Creator you’ll create organic and paid social content across motion and stills for two major consumer brands with distinct visual worlds. You’ll bring the eye, taste, and visual authorship of an elevated fashion or editorial filmmaker, paired with the independence and resourcefulness of a hands‑on maker. Depending on the project, you may shoot and edit independently, work with a lean team, or lead a larger crew — while remaining closely involved from the initial idea through final delivery. Reporting into a Creative Director, you’ll help own the visual development of the work and find inventive ways to make every production feel rich, intentional, and effortlessly cool. We’re looking for someone with a distinctive point of view, the range to adapt it across different brands, a deep awareness of culture, fashion, music, nightlife, art, and design, and the practical skill to make beautiful work at a range of production scales.

Responsibilities

Own the Visual Development: Play an integral role in creative development, shaping concepts, visual treatments, references, shot approaches, and production ideas from the brief onward — not simply joining once an idea is ready to shoot.

Direct, Shoot, and Create: Lead motion and stills work from concept through capture, operating camera yourself when appropriate and moving comfortably between independent shoots, lean teams, and larger crew-based productions.

Make Lean Production Feel Elevated: Use framing, lighting, lenses, locations, casting, styling, art direction, camera movement, sound, editing, and color to make limited budgets feel considered, polished, and expensive.

Build Distinctive Brand Worlds: Create work with the polish of fashion, luxury, and editorial imagery while adapting your approach to different brand voices and keeping the content current, human, and native to social.

Work Across Motion and Stills: Move fluidly between short-form films, portraits, lifestyle imagery, product and tabletop content, behind-the-scenes moments, and other organic and paid social formats without treating photography as an afterthought.

Direct Talent with Ease: Demonstrate the ability to guide models, actors, creators, artists, and real people toward performances and images that feel confident, natural, and culturally credible rather than overly posed or commercial.

Own a Hands-On Production Process: Collaborate with agency producers while taking practical ownership of the production approach — including scouting, gear and crew recommendations, casting input, shot planning, department direction, and on-set problem solving across both lean and crew-based shoots.

Edit and Finish the Work: Edit the content you create for lean, always-on assignments, bringing a strong sense of rhythm, music, sound, color, and finishing to the final piece. On larger productions, collaborate closely with editors and post-production partners while protecting the visual intention through final delivery.

Stay Close to Culture: Maintain an active point of view on emerging photographers, filmmakers, artists, designers, musicians, venues, style movements, and visual references, particularly within New York culture.

Present and Protect the Work: Communicate your creative rationale clearly, respond to feedback thoughtfully, and find solutions that meet brand and business needs without flattening the visual point of view.

Deliver Consistently: Manage multiple assignments across two fast-moving brands, changing priorities, and quick timelines with strong organization, dependable communication, and a consistently high bar for craft.

About You
The essentials:

5+ years of experience as a director, photographer, filmmaker, cinematographer, or multidisciplinary visual creator, with a portfolio that demonstrates a strong and recognizable point of view.

New York City-based or within a commutable distance preferred. Los Angeles-based candidates will also be considered.

A portfolio with exceptional motion and stills work in fashion, luxury, beauty, music, editorial, lifestyle, hospitality, or adjacent culturally driven categories, alongside enough range to work across distinct brand worlds.

Deep hands-on proficiency with camera, lenses, lighting, composition, and compact production setups, with the judgment to choose the simplest approach that will still produce elevated work.

Strong hands-on editing and post-production skills, with the ability to independently take social video from footage through final delivery, supported by a sophisticated sense of rhythm, music, sound, color, image selection, and finishing.

The ability to concept visually, create persuasive treatments or mood boards, and translate an idea into a focused, achievable shooting approach.

Proven ability to work nimbly and scale up: Experience creating premium work on very lean budgets, often shooting independently or with little to no crew, while also being able to lead a large production team when the work and budget call for it.

Demonstrated ability to direct talent and real people, with a strong eye for casting, styling, performance, gesture, and the small details that make an image feel effortless.

Experience capturing cultural events, artist collaborations, or live moments while maintaining a premium visual standard.

A current and informed connection to culture, with taste that extends beyond advertising into fashion, art, photography, film, music, nightlife, design, and publishing.

A collaborative, low-ego working style and the ability to take meaningful ownership within creative development rather than joining only after an idea has been approved.

Strong organization, communication, and self-management across overlapping shoots, edits, reviews, and deliverables.

Not a Must, But a Plus

Experience working with premium consumer, hospitality, nightlife, fashion, beauty, celebrity, or music brands.

Experience balancing the needs of organic social, paid social, campaign extensions, and broader brand storytelling across more than one account or visual system.

Advanced retouching, color grading, or experimental in-camera techniques.

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.

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.

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Benefits
What We Offer

Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!

Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays

401k with company contribution

Paid parental leave

Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being

Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network

A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!

Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

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: $95,000—$115,000 USD

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.

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In Summary: Senior Content Creator you’ll create organic and paid social content across motion and stills for two major consumer brands with distinct visual worlds . We’re looking for someone with a distinctive point of view, the range to adapt it across different brands, a deep awareness of culture, fashion, music, nightlife, art, and design .

En Español: Tenga en cuenta que nunca solicitaremos información de pago o cuenta bancaria en ninguna etapa del proceso de contratación. A medida que continuamos creciendo nuestros equipos, le instamos a tener cuidado con las ofertas fraudulentas de empleo o actividades de reclutamiento que utilizan mal nuestro nombre e información de la empresa. Por favor proteja su información personal durante cualquier proceso de recrutamiento. Mientras los monjes pueden contactar a candidatos potenciales a través de LinkedIn, todas las solicitudes deben ser presentadas por medio de nuestra página web oficial (monks.com/careers). Buscamos a alguien con un punto de vista distintivo, la gama para adaptarlo en diferentes marcas, una profunda conciencia de cultura, moda, música, vida nocturna, arte y diseño, y la habilidad práctica para hacer trabajo hermoso en una variedad de escalas de producción. Responsabilidades Propietarios del Desarrollo Visual: desempeñar un papel integral en el desarrollo creativo, dar forma a conceptos, tratamientos visuales, referencias, enfoques de disparo, e ideas de producción desde el breve adelante no simplemente uniéndose una vez que una idea está lista para disparar. Direct, Shoot, and Create: Lead motion and stills work from concept through capture, operating camera yourself when appropriate and moving comfortably between independent shots, lean teams, and larger crew-based productions. En las producciones más grandes, colabore estrechamente con los editores y socios de postproducción al tiempo que protege la intención visual a través de la entrega final. Manténgase cerca de la cultura: mantenga un punto de vista activo sobre fotógrafos emergentes, cineastas, artistas, diseñadores, músicos, lugares, movimientos de estilo y referencias visuales, especialmente dentro de la Cultura de Nueva York. Presente y Proteja el trabajo: Comuníquese su racionalidad creativa claramente, responda reflexivamente a los comentarios y encuentre soluciones que satisfagan las necesidades de marca y negocio sin aplanar el punto de visión visual. Entregue consistentemente: gestione múltiples tareas en dos marcas rápidas, cambiando prioridades y cronogramas rápidos con una organización sólida, comunicación fiable y una barra constante para el oficio. Sobre usted Los elementos esenciales: 5 años de experiencia como fotógrafo, creador, cineasta o director multidisciplinario que demuestre a distancia un enfoque visual reconocible en la ciudad de New York o una cartera de fotografía o cinematográfico que se desplice a gran distancia. Los candidatos con sede en Los Ángeles también serán considerados. Una cartera con movimiento excepcional y imágenes fijas que trabajan en moda, lujo, belleza, música, editorial, estilo de vida, hospitalidad o categorías culturalmente impulsadas adyacentes, junto a un rango suficiente para trabajar en diferentes mundos de marcas. Profundas habilidades prácticas con cámara, lentillas, iluminación, composición y configuraciones compactas de producción, con el juicio de elegir el enfoque más simple que aún producirá trabajo elevado. Fuertes habilidades de edición práctica y post-producción, con la capacidad de tomar videos sociales independientemente a través de grabajes premium, respaldado por un sentido sofisticado del ritmo, la calidad de sonido, el color, la selección de imagen y la finalización de las perspectivas sociales. La capacidad de crear estilos visuales, persuasivos de producción o tableras de ánimo, y convertirse en una idea establecida después de lograr detalles elevados. Trabajamos proactivamente para diseñar procesos de contratación que promuevan la equidad e inclusión mientras mitigamos los prejuicios. Celebramos la diversidad y nos comprometemos a construir un equipo que refleje las comunidades a las que servimos. Damos la bienvenida y alentamos a solicitantes calificados, de todos los orígenes, que están entusiasmados con contribuir a nuestra misión. Este papel está sujeto a nuestra política de Retorno a la Oficina (RTO). Si usted reside dentro de una distancia commutable de una de nuestras ubicaciones de oficinas, se esperará que trabaje desde la oficina un número establecido de días por semana. Los detalles específicos, incluido el número de días requeridos en la oficina, estarán de acuerdo con la política RTO de la compañía entonces vigente, que puede cambiar de vez en cuando. Monks ha proporcionado una gama de compensaciones que representa su estimación de buena fe de lo que los monjes pueden pagar por el puesto en el momento de la publicación. En última instancia, los monjos pueden pagar más o menos del rango de compensación publicado. El salario ofrecido al candidato seleccionado se determinará según factores relacionados con el trabajo, pero no basándose en el sexo de un candidato u otro estado protegido. Al desplegar agentes inteligentes a medida en diferentes disciplinas y ofrecer soluciones creativas y digitales culturalmente relevantes de alto impacto, Monks resuelve los principales desafíos empresariales críticos en toda la empresa de marca para ayudar a las marcas a mantener el impacto a largo plazo.