Monks

San Miguel

Senior Template Designer

ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 5 days ago
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Monks

Media.Monks is a disruptive global powerhouse connecting content, data, and digital media services to lead brands into a new digital era.

B2B Publishing Information Technology & Services Media
HQ
Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Team size
5K-10K
Founded
2001

Quick Summary

Role Overview

As a Senior Template Designer, you will lead the technical side of design by building and automating scalable digital assets for global brands. You will focus on production and system building to transform creative concepts into efficient template systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain scalable template systems and design infrastructure using Figma
  • Partner with the automation squad to templatise design briefs for maximum efficiency
  • Collaborate with external agencies to ensure design concepts can be scaled smoothly
  • Support global brands with high-volume and e-commerce-heavy deliverables
  • Guide junior and mid-weight designers by delegating tasks and teaching systems
  • Create clear internal documentation to help the team adopt new template systems

Requirements Snapshot

  • Advanced hands-on experience using Figma to build smart design systems
  • Natural mindset for production automation and structural design over traditional ideation
  • Ability to explain technical design setups to diverse teammates in plain English
  • Proven experience collaborating across teams and mentoring junior staff members
  • Strong attention to detail regarding file organization and logical workflows

Expected Impact

You will streamline the production process for some of the world's most recognizable brands by making complex design tasks simple and automatic. Your work in building robust template systems will ensure global campaigns are delivered with high accuracy and efficiency. By mentoring others and documenting workflows, you will foster a culture of technical excellence and scalability within the design team.

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Job Description

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).

About The Role

As a Senior Template Designer, you will be the driving force behind how we build, automate, and scale digital assets for some of the world's most recognizable household brands.

This isn't your traditional creative ideation role. Instead, you will focus on the clever, technical side of design: production, automation, and system building. You will help us take design concepts and turn them into smart, scalable template systems, ensuring our e-commerce and global campaigns run like clockwork. Working closely with project managers, quality assurance teams, and other designers, you’ll help us make the complex simple and the manual automatic.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain robust, scalable template systems and design infrastructure, primarily using Figma.Partner with our automation squad to review design briefs, determining how we can templatise them for maximum efficiency.Collaborate with external creative agencies to simplify design principles, giving feedback to make sure their concepts can be scaled smoothly.Support a variety of global brands with high-volume, e-commerce-heavy deliverables.Guide and support junior and mid-weight designers, delegating tasks and helping them learn the systems you build.Write clear, internal onboarding documentation so our team can easily understand and adopt our template systems.Work hand-in-hand with project managers and QA teams to ensure everything we produce is accurate, efficient, and top-tier quality.

About You

The essentials:

Figma Champion: You have advanced, hands-on experience with Figma and love using its advanced features to build smart systems.Systems Thinker: You have a natural mindset for production, automation, and structural design rather than just starting from a blank creative canvas.Great Communicator: You can explain technical design setups to both technical and non-technical teammates in plain, simple English.Team Player & Mentor: You enjoy collaborating across teams (like PMs and QA) and are happy to guide junior team members.Detail-Oriented: You take pride in neat files, organized layers, thorough documentation and logical workflows that anyone can step into and understand.

Not a Must, But a Plus

Experience presenting design systems or automation workflows directly to clients.

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.

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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