Future Position: AI Craft Director

Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website (monks.com/careers).This posting is not tied to a current open role, but is an opportunity to join our talent pool for future positions. By applying, you’ll be considered as opportunities that align with your experience that become available.   The Role We are makers. We create because we are curious, and we believe that the best way to prove an idea works is to make it real. As the Craft Innovation Lead, you are a defining voice of our new breed of cross-disciplinary innovators. Nested deeply within our core Content Studio offering, you sit at the exact intersection of traditional filmmaking craft, cutting-edge AI technology, and immersive system architecture. Reporting directly to the Head of Creative, you are a hybrid visionary with a proven background in visual effects, animation, design, and film direction. You understand the unbreakable rules of color, composition, pacing, and character development—and you know how to apply those traditional standards to AI-first workflows and XR environments. You will not just build the future; you will sell it. This is a highly strategic, client-facing role. You will proactively identify opportunities, rapidly prototype "impossible" ideas, and present these new ways of making directly to Google stakeholders. You are the ultimate bridge between our creative idea generators, our technical platform builders, and our clients, proving that strategically sound, tech-enabled creative thinking can achieve the "Google Grade" faster and with unprecedented visual fidelity. Key Responsibilities Craft Meets Compute Uphold the Fundamentals: Bring uncompromising directorial and design sensibilities—including lighting, lens choice, color theory, editing, and character development—to AI-generated and tech-enabled content. Ensure that "machine speed" never compromises human taste. The New Ways of Making: Aggressively experiment with and integrate generative AI, real-time rendering, procedural generation, and AR/VR/XR technologies into the Studio workflow. You respect the legacy of traditional production while actively rewriting its rulebook. Proactive Prototyping & Client Partnership Identify & Prototype: Do not wait for a brief. Proactively identify brand and product initiatives where emerging tech can be leveraged. You will act as a rapid-prototyping engine, building proofs-of-concept that demonstrate net-new visual treatments or content models. Client-Facing Leadership: Serve as a frontline strategic partner to Google clients. You must confi...