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About us
At Monigle, we humanize brands to move people. As the largest independent brand-focused agency in the country, the quality of our work starts and ends with the people doing it — their passion, curiosity, and refusal to settle for good enough.
Our Advertising team is small, agile, and genuinely passionate about what creativity can do to earn attention, shape behavior, and influence culture. We see the entire funnel as our playground, and our work reflects our optimism and agility. We're smart, strategic, and scrappy — showing up for each other and for our colleagues across the agency to make every day a little better and more inspiring than the day before.
The Role
We're looking for a Creative Director, Art Director who is more than a talented visual thinker — you're a strategic force, a master of craft and a dynamic presence who can sell ideas through imagery, design, and visual storytelling that captures both imagination and heart.
The Details
- You have some experience in a leadership role or are ready to make the leap into the next phase of your amazing career. Either way, you're a team player who can translate a brief into a distinctive visual language and see that vision through with the highest degree of creativity and quality.
- You're a positivity magnet, someone who rallies teams and excites clients with equal parts artistic conviction and collaborative generosity.
- You're a performance-driven pro who can create at any altitude — being as comfortable on a shoot with clients as you are perfecting the details on the smallest of activation tactics.
- You'll report to our Executive Creative Director and partner closely with our Creative Director, Copy. Together, you're the creative engine of the growing department — leading the work, building business, and contributing to our dynamic culture.
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Lead the work. Own the visual concept and art direction on major campaigns from brief through production. Establish the aesthetic language, make the craft decisions, and push the work past the expected — across media and throughout the funnel.
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Create across media. Performance-driven creativity is our rocket fuel for solving problems. You have perspective on how to earn attention and spark engagement at the outset of every project.
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Partner and elevate. Here, we are each other's people. You'll collaborate with strategy, digital, visual designers, verbalist, client services, studio artists, and production to ensure creative integrity across every handoff and every touchpoint is a seamless exchange.
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Move with purpose. You're nimble by nature, and equally comfortable in a fast-turn social brief and multi-layered brand launch. You show up where needed and respect timelines without letting them flatten the work.
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Use AI as a creative accelerator. Neither a crutch nor a novelty, we embrace AI tools as part of how you explore, visualize, and pressure-test ideas. We want someone who's already figured out how to make them serve the work, and who isn't afraid to push into new territory.
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Contribute to new business. Help concept and pitch ideas that win.
Your Experience
- 7+ years of creative experience in advertising, with a portfolio that demonstrates genuine conceptual range and strong, distinctive visual thinking across formats.
- Exceptional creative taste, and a demonstrated passion and point of view for every facet of the work.
- Hands-on proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and AI creative tools (Gemini, MidJourney, Firefly, Runway, or equivalent).
- Proven fluency in today's media landscape: how visual content behaves across platforms, how performance creative works, how channels can shape ideas.
- Experience working in health and wellness, financial services and destination brands a plus.
- The presence to present and represent the work, our group and our agency with conviction.
- We are also hiring for CD, Copy, so we are open to interviewing teams.
Lastly…
We can't wait to meet you!
Salary range: $135,000 - $165,000
Final salary will be determined based on seniority, merit, geographic location, education, training and experience – reach out to us to learn more.
Our people take care of us, so we take care of our people. Enjoy:
- Ample paid time off to recharge and reset
- 401K: traditional and Roth options, plus employer match
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and life insurance premiums for employees
- Optional vision, life, short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity leave
If you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, but feel you have something unique to contribute to Monigle, we'd love to hear from you. Please do apply and tell us more about you in your cover letter.
Application Deadline: May 13, 2026
Creative Director, Art Direction at Monigle
About us
At Monigle, we humanize brands to move people. As the largest independent brand-focused agency in the country, the quality of our work starts and ends with the people doing it — their passion, curiosity, and refusal to settle for good enough.
Our Advertising team is small, agile, and genuinely passionate about what creativity can do to earn attention, shape behavior, and influence culture. We see the entire funnel as our playground, and our work reflects our optimism and agility. We're smart, strategic, and scrappy — showing up for each other and for our colleagues across the agency to make every day a little better and more inspiring than the day before.
The Role
We're looking for a Creative Director, Art Director who is more than a talented visual thinker — you're a strategic force, a master of craft and a dynamic presence who can sell ideas through imagery, design, and visual storytelling that captures both imagination and heart.
The Details
- You have some experience in a leadership role or are ready to make the leap into the next phase of your amazing career. Either way, you're a team player who can translate a brief into a distinctive visual language and see that vision through with the highest degree of creativity and quality.
- You're a positivity magnet, someone who rallies teams and excites clients with equal parts artistic conviction and collaborative generosity.
- You're a performance-driven pro who can create at any altitude — being as comfortable on a shoot with clients as you are perfecting the details on the smallest of activation tactics.
- You'll report to our Executive Creative Director and partner closely with our Creative Director, Copy. Together, you're the creative engine of the growing department — leading the work, building business, and contributing to our dynamic culture.
-
Lead the work. Own the visual concept and art direction on major campaigns from brief through production. Establish the aesthetic language, make the craft decisions, and push the work past the expected — across media and throughout the funnel.
-
Create across media. Performance-driven creativity is our rocket fuel for solving problems. You have perspective on how to earn attention and spark engagement at the outset of every project.
-
Partner and elevate. Here, we are each other's people. You'll collaborate with strategy, digital, visual designers, verbalist, client services, studio artists, and production to ensure creative integrity across every handoff and every touchpoint is a seamless exchange.
-
Move with purpose. You're nimble by nature, and equally comfortable in a fast-turn social brief and multi-layered brand launch. You show up where needed and respect timelines without letting them flatten the work.
-
Use AI as a creative accelerator. Neither a crutch nor a novelty, we embrace AI tools as part of how you explore, visualize, and pressure-test ideas. We want someone who's already figured out how to make them serve the work, and who isn't afraid to push into new territory.
-
Contribute to new business. Help concept and pitch ideas that win.
Your Experience
- 7+ years of creative experience in advertising, with a portfolio that demonstrates genuine conceptual range and strong, distinctive visual thinking across formats.
- Exceptional creative taste, and a demonstrated passion and point of view for every facet of the work.
- Hands-on proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and AI creative tools (Gemini, MidJourney, Firefly, Runway, or equivalent).
- Proven fluency in today's media landscape: how visual content behaves across platforms, how performance creative works, how channels can shape ideas.
- Experience working in health and wellness, financial services and destination brands a plus.
- The presence to present and represent the work, our group and our agency with conviction.
- We are also hiring for CD, Copy, so we are open to interviewing teams.
Lastly…
We can't wait to meet you!
Salary range: $135,000 - $165,000
Final salary will be determined based on seniority, merit, geographic location, education, training and experience – reach out to us to learn more.
Our people take care of us, so we take care of our people. Enjoy:
- Ample paid time off to recharge and reset
- 401K: traditional and Roth options, plus employer match
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and life insurance premiums for employees
- Optional vision, life, short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity leave
If you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, but feel you have something unique to contribute to Monigle, we'd love to hear from you. Please do apply and tell us more about you in your cover letter.
Application Deadline: May 13, 2026
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Creative
Verify your role meets specialty occupation
Check your job title against the O*NET occupation profile for your creative discipline. USCIS requires the role to routinely require a bachelor's degree in a specific field, broad creative titles without a defined degree requirement are the most common RFE trigger.
Build a portfolio that documents degree alignment
Your portfolio should connect your creative work directly to your degree field. UX designers with computer science degrees, art directors with fine arts credentials, USCIS looks for a logical nexus, so label projects to reflect that disciplinary grounding explicitly.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to identify creative employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for roles matching your discipline. Past LCA filings signal an established sponsorship process, which reduces the risk of an employer backing out mid-petition due to unfamiliarity with the costs or timeline.
Negotiate offer timing around the lottery window
H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. Secure your offer and complete premium processing paperwork before February so your employer can file during the registration window without rushing the LCA certification with DOL.
Confirm the employer will cover mandatory fees
USCIS prohibits employers from passing certain H-1B filing fees to you. Get written confirmation in your offer letter that the employer is covering I-129 filing and ACWIA training fees, this is especially common to overlook at smaller creative agencies.
Use the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer
Pull the prevailing wage for your exact SOC code and work location using the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage level your employer certified on the LCA, or your petition will be denied.
H-1B Visa Creative: Frequently Asked Questions
Do creative jobs qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Creative roles qualify when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a specific related field as a normal minimum. Roles like UX designer, art director, brand strategist, and content strategist commonly meet this standard. Generalist titles such as 'creative' or 'designer' without a defined degree requirement are harder to support and frequently draw RFEs from USCIS. Your employer's job description language matters as much as your credentials.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for creative roles?
Agencies, in-house creative teams at tech companies, media brands, and consulting firms with design practices are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for creative professionals. Migrate Mate lets you filter for employers with verified LCA filing history in creative occupations, so you're applying to companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process rather than those encountering it for the first time.
What degree do I need for an H-1B in a creative role?
USCIS requires a U.S. bachelor's degree or its equivalent in a field directly related to the job. For UX roles that might be human-computer interaction, cognitive science, or computer science. For brand or content roles it could be marketing, communications, or journalism. A fine arts degree supports art direction or visual design. A degree in an unrelated field weakens the petition even if you have years of professional experience in the creative field.
Can a small creative agency sponsor my H-1B?
Yes, there's no minimum company size for H-1B sponsorship. Small agencies can file, but they face more USCIS scrutiny on financial ability to pay the prevailing wage and on whether the role truly requires a specialized degree. Agencies that have sponsored before are better positioned to handle RFEs. If you're evaluating a small agency, ask whether they've sponsored H-1B employees previously and whether they work with an immigration attorney.
What happens to my H-1B if I switch creative employers?
You can transfer your H-1B to a new employer through a process called H-1B portability under AC21, which lets you start working for the new employer as soon as they file the transfer petition, without waiting for approval. The new employer files a fresh I-129 petition, and your new role must still qualify as a specialty occupation. You don't re-enter the lottery. Gaps between employment are generally limited to a 60-day grace period.