AI Artist – VFX Lead Full-time

AI Artist – VFX Lead

STUDIO.MONKS (EXPAND ON MONKS / MISSION)

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ABOUT THE ROLE – AI ARTIST

We are seeking a talented AI Creative Artist [Photo/Image] to join our innovative team. This role combines artistic vision with cutting-edge AI technologies to create unique visual content and enhance artistic workflows. This role will be part of a larger AI transformation team that accelerates the AI production workflows across all of our maker talent around the world. This role collaborated in a global setting with a focus on Monks America’s Studios.

RESPONSIBILITIES / PRIORITIES

• PITCH
• Support ongoing client pitches; pitches often enable various levels of R&D against actual client challenges which, these pitches help us define the in market need, challenges, into buyable & winning proposals that are pushing our craft towards transformation on every level of the creative execution flow.
• Pitch teams will have various discipline leads collaborating on workflow and R&D so that we represent the best of NOW.
• R&D
• This role will push the creative craft and is responsible for creating and development of R&D projects that showcase high creative craft through AI enabled workflows.
• A good amount of Client R&D as well as Proactive RD will be part of the role; to manage an area of playing, testing, discovering, to see where we can create meaningful transformation in craft.
• This role collaborates with a wider studio transformation team to be enabled across various disciplines to be able to work fast with quick results.

PIPELINE TRANSFORMATION – MONKS FLOW INTEGRATION

• Leads and supports discipline workflow transformation. We are set to transform every piece of production and are looking for artists that help support this transformation to ensure workflows are updated, test and proven to be able to deliver on craft.
• Once landed on the updated workflows this role will support automation teams to ensure areas of process that can be transformed are transformed/integrated correctly into the existing Monks AI related workflows & toolstacks
• Optimization of workflows: this role will ensure that net new tools that impact the discipline will get reviewed and tested proactively; as well as optimization updates are pushed for on the pipeline so that our workflows are always up to date in this fast moving landscape

SOCIAL AMBASSADOR

• Is comfortable representing our craft voice in our social media channels
• Leads net new R&D and has a weekly posting cadence into the new and unknown and forming vision and opinion on where the discipline is heading.
• Reviewing new tool stacks and features as part of the ongoing jobs and workflows

CREATIVE CRAFT EXCELLENCE / AWARDS

• A leader in craft and excellence pushing the boundaries of making on a 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”
• Has a proven track record in winning award per discipline
• EDUCATION
• Leads education internal and external; develops BTS and Educational case studies that allow us to share out with the larger organization to be able to bring awareness to the craft transformation this team is going through.

PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS

• Compelling portfolio showcasing creativity, technical skills and AI integrated work.
• Proven experience in production company settings (photo studios, design studios or post production studios)

TOOLS SKILLS

• Proven experience on the Adobe toolstack
• AI toolstacks MUST: MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, Magnific / Krea,
• AI toolstacks NICE TO HAVE: Adobe (Firefly), Comfy UI, Chat GPT, Runway, LUMA, Eleven Labs, DALL-E

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 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

Monks is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behaviour, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• 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 Media.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!)

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.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

$170,000-$210,000 CAD

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.

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