VP, Performance Creative

The posting, as Monks wrote it

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About the Role

This role leads our team of 35 Performance Creative experts - production, design, animation and creative strategy. This team has earned a number of high profile award wins from The Drum, Digiday, and Meta for their work. Reporting to the EVP of Media, you’ll 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 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.

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.
• Guide clients and teams through the dynamic landscape of creative innovation for paid social, display, video, UGC, influencer content, and emerging platforms.
• Leverage creative testing frameworks, audience insights, and performance analytics to inform ideation, production, iteration, and optimization processes.
• Advise clients on the integration and scaling of generative AI, automation, and technology in creative production and operations.
• Drive adoption of cutting-edge technologies and AI tools to optimize creative operations and output.
• Partner with brand and growth teams to develop foundational stories, rapid tests, and breakthrough campaigns across channels.
• Provide a point of view on leading topics such as UGC, creative automation, global content production, and scaling impact for growth brands.
• Stay ahead of digital, media, and content trends, ensuring Monks’ creative output sets the industry standard.
• Oversee creative resourcing, processes, and playbooks to maximize internal efficiency, creative quality, and revenue growth.
• Serve as Executive Sponsor for some of our largest performance-driven client accounts, providing strategic creative direction at the highest levels.

Internal Agency Operations

• Oversee staffing, structure, and scalable processes for a rapidly growing creative team, fostering a

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Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It 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 (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, 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.