Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead creative strategy and execution for social, video, and display ads to drive mobile app user acquisition. Scale content sourcing, manage high-volume testing pipelines, collaborate with growth, brand, agencies, and creators, and ensure compliance with legal and risk frameworks while optimizing performance metrics and conversion drivers.

Lead and grow a team of designers to develop brand and campaign concepts across channels. Provide creative direction, approve work, partner cross-functionally, refine processes, and elevate visual identity to meet business goals.

The Creative & Design Operations Lead will manage systems and processes for creative and design operations, ensuring efficient workflows and vendor management. This role includes building dashboards, managing projects, and optimizing tools for visibility and accountability.

Lead and scale a conceptually driven design organization, set and enforce a high creative bar, build systems and processes for design at scale, mentor emerging leaders, partner with strategy and cross-functional teams, and oversee visual identity, campaigns, digital experiences, motion, and production partners to ensure cohesive, insight-led brand work.

Lead and inspire a creative team to develop insight-driven marketing campaigns for Capital One's Retail Bank, collaborating with strategists and partners to enhance customer experience and brand strategy.

The Creative Director leads branding and marketing strategies, manages creative teams, oversees design quality, and collaborates across departments to meet business objectives.

The Art Director will develop and oversee visual identity through video and motion graphics for NinjaTrader Live, managing projects and collaborating with teams to ensure high-quality output.

The Senior Creative Designer will lead creative projects, develop visual systems, and collaborate with teams to enhance SmartBear's brand identity across various platforms and channels.

Lead a multidisciplinary product creative team to define and maintain Coinbase's in-app visual identity. Own creative direction for product launches, collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, evolve design language and systems, and hire and mentor visual, motion, and illustration designers to deliver cohesive, high-impact consumer product experiences.

Lead HiBob's US creative function to define and execute a world-class visual identity and brand system. Drive high-impact campaigns (TV/OOH/digital), integrate AI-enabled design workflows, manage agencies and a global creative team, and align creative output to measurable business outcomes.

Design and produce digital and print marketing assets (web pages, emails, ads, collateral, event materials), maintain brand consistency, create web and email templates, collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, sales, and events, manage multiple projects and deadlines, and stay current on design trends and tools to elevate creative output.

Serve as senior strategic owner for a portfolio of high-value B2B clients, driving retention, expansion, and cross-channel growth. Lead executive communications, forecast portfolio economics, run QBRs, align cross-functional teams, mitigate client risk, and mentor strategists to improve commercial outcomes tied to Net Revenue Retention and CSAT.

Lead and elevate Hometap's creative vision across campaigns and channels. Manage and mentor an in-house creative team, oversee production and external vendors, refine processes, align creative to business goals, and drive performance through testing and best practices.

Lead Bankrate's Marketing Creative pod as an AI-native creative leader: set creative standards, build AI-powered tooling and workflows to produce scalable channel-native variants, run rapid testing tied to revenue, partner cross-functionally, and hire/manage a small team and vendors.

Lead development of Headway's brand strategy and creative direction across campaigns, product launches, and experiences. Partner with Customer Insights to ground briefs, run cultural listening, maintain competitive differentiation, steward brand systems and guidelines, build scalable brand tools (including AI agents), educate internal teams, and measure brand health and creative effectiveness to iterate on strategy.

Support and optimize creative workflows from intake to delivery, coordinate timelines and resources, track basic metrics, assist quality checks and onboarding, document processes, and collaborate with designers, copywriters, compliance, and cross-functional partners to improve creative operations.

Lead high-level B2B paid acquisition on Meta and own creative strategy: develop angles, write direct-response copy (VSLs, ads, book-a-call pages), brief production, and run weekly coaching. Manage targeting, testing, pacing, and optimizations. Also shape organic Instagram and YouTube strategy. Must deliver measurable results and provide portfolio/work samples. Remote US/Canada, 9am-6pm ET.

The Production Designer creates high-quality, on-brand digital assets across various platforms, ensuring meticulous execution, managing multiple projects, and leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.

Manage a $4M portfolio of creative agency clients, drive account health, retention, and growth. Lead onboarding, QBRs, revenue forecasting, renewals, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver strategic creative solutions and expand client relationships.

Lead client relationships and manage assigned accounts end-to-end, overseeing project briefs, timelines, budgets, cross-functional teams, strategy, creative and paid media execution, client presentations, financial forecasting, and P&L. Identify growth opportunities and ensure deliverables meet client business goals.

Manage intake and execution of creative and evergreen marketing projects from brief to launch. Maintain schedules, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders (Creative, Growth, Product, Data, Legal), ensure compliance and quality reviews, track campaign readiness and post-launch monitoring, and drive process improvements to remove blockers and ensure predictable delivery.

Lead and optimize paid social and digital media campaigns for a global enterprise client across Google, Meta, LinkedIn. Translate performance data into actionable insights, produce client-facing reporting, run meetings and presentations, and coordinate cross-regional teams to ensure delivery and continuous improvement.

Manage end-to-end workflow and delivery of design projects for promotion and design teams, coordinating designers, timelines, approvals, DAM maintenance, stakeholder and vendor communications, risk mitigation, and brand consistency across on-air, digital, and promotional assets.

Lead end-to-end performance creative for paid channels (TikTok, Meta, YouTube, CTV), from concept and scripting to editing and production. Use data and AI tools to iterate, manage agency/production partners, and raise visual and brand standards while driving measurable growth.

Lead end-to-end performance creative: concepting, scripting, editing, and producing ads across paid social, CTV, and emerging channels. Translate performance data into creative direction, manage agencies/production partners, and leverage AI tools to accelerate production while elevating brand quality.