Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead creative strategy and execution for Retail Bank and Café marketing across digital, email, direct mail, video, and out-of-home channels. Manage creative employees, contractors, and agencies; coach talent; collaborate with marketing and business partners; interpret research and testing results; develop customer-focused campaigns; and present strategies to influence stakeholders. Candidates must provide a creative portfolio and apply evidence-based marketing, personalization, optimization, and emerging AI capabilities.

Writes and edits branded content across email, websites, direct mail, social media, digital ads, and other customer touchpoints. The role champions Zoro’s brand voice, applies writing guidelines, translates creative briefs into relatable messaging, collaborates with designers and cross-functional partners, and manages multiple projects and deadlines. It also uses AI for brainstorming and efficiency while maintaining consistency across customer segments and channels.

Develop and lead copy for integrated marketing campaigns across email, print, digital, social, video, and other channels. Shape brand voice, translate briefs into compelling messaging, collaborate with designers and marketing partners, present copy to stakeholders, mentor junior writers, incorporate feedback, and optimize content using performance metrics and A/B testing.

Supports an in-house creative team by sourcing and editing music, researching social media and creative trends, managing advertising asset libraries, and assisting with scripts, shot lists, asset collection, and production coordination. The intern organizes music and content using Google Workspace, contributes to trend reports, and provides general project support in a remote, collaborative environment.

Leads conceptual creative development for brand campaigns, launches, partnerships, and physical and digital experiences. Simplifies blockchain, payments, and financial infrastructure into compelling narratives; interprets briefs strategically; and prototypes ideas using AI, code, and design tools. Partners with designers, copywriters, engineers, and creative leaders to deliver polished executions while maintaining high standards for originality and craft.

Leads creative production from concept through delivery across film, digital, social, experiential, immersive, and emerging formats. Partners with creative leaders, agencies, production companies, and stakeholders to determine production approaches, manage budgets and timelines, solve complex execution challenges, and maintain exceptional creative quality. Explores and operationalizes AI-enabled production techniques, evaluates emerging tools, and shares production expertise across the Creative & Design team.

Leads brand and creative services strategy, including brand positioning, governance, health measurement, creative direction, digital design, campaigns, and print and email production. Builds operating models and processes across brand, UX, product design, and marketing teams. Oversees talent development, hiring, budgets, agencies, and external partners while advising senior leaders and driving cross-functional alignment.

Lead Sailor Health’s B2C creative strategy and performance marketing engine. Own the creative roadmap, testing strategy, patient storytelling, and performance analysis across Meta, Google, and YouTube. Build and manage an internal team of designers, editors, copywriters, creators, freelancers, and agencies. Establish scalable creative systems, use AI to increase production speed, and ensure brand consistency and HIPAA-compliant healthcare marketing.

Leads MongoDB’s brand creative design team, setting creative direction, managing designers, and stewarding visual brand systems across campaigns, events, digital, and environmental design. Oversees AI and generative design adoption, brand enablement, agencies, budgets, timelines, and cross-functional partnerships. The role remains hands-on with concepts and key deliverables while presenting creative rationale to senior stakeholders and maintaining high standards for brand consistency and execution.

Lead Jerry’s creative function by developing, producing, editing, and optimizing performance-driven advertising across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, CTV, and emerging channels. Manage a creative team and agency partners, develop concepts and scripts, translate performance data into creative direction, maintain high visual standards, and use AI tools to accelerate production. The role combines hands-on video editing and production with team leadership, brand building, and performance marketing.

Concepts, produces, edits, and iterates performance-focused video ads across paid social, CTV, and emerging channels. Leads a small creative team, develops hooks and visual frameworks, monitors platform trends, uses AI tools to accelerate production, and collaborates with media, growth, analytics, and senior creative teams to improve creative performance.

Lead Jerry’s creative function and manage a small team producing performance-driven advertising across paid social, CTV, YouTube, and emerging channels. Own ideation, scripting, production, video editing, agency direction, and creative iteration. Use performance data, platform trends, and generative AI tools to improve ad effectiveness, creative volume, visual quality, and brand equity.

Concepts, produces, edits, and iterates performance-focused video ads across TikTok, Meta, YouTube, CTV, and emerging channels. Leads a small creative team, develops high-performing hooks and visual frameworks, applies platform and cultural trends, and uses AI tools to accelerate ideation and production. Collaborates with media, growth, analytics, and senior creative teams to improve creative performance while maintaining strong visual craft and brand quality.

Leads client relationships and integrated marketing initiatives from briefing through execution. Oversees account operations, budgets, resources, workflows, presentations, and cross-functional agency teams while ensuring creative and operational excellence. Provides strategic counsel, identifies growth opportunities, manages risks, and mentors team members. Requires substantial agency account leadership experience, strong brand marketing expertise, and the ability to manage complex campaigns and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

Leads client communication and account management for experiential marketing campaigns, events, activations, and agency projects. Partners with clients and internal teams on strategic and executional needs, manages projects independently, resolves issues, escalates challenges, communicates project updates, and presents agency strategies and creative perspectives. Requires account management, creative agency, experiential marketing, campaign development, and event activation experience, plus eligibility to support an alcohol, spirits, or beverage client.

Manage client relationships and account communications for experiential and shopper marketing campaigns, events, assets, status meetings, and project execution. Partner with clients on strategic and executional needs, independently manage projects, resolve issues, escalate challenges, and keep leadership informed. Sell agency strategies, creative concepts, and points of view while collaborating with internal teams. The role requires account management, creative agency, event activation, shopper marketing, campaign development, and client management experience.

Develop and execute brand identity, visual design, art direction, print, retail, shopper marketing, experiential, and commerce assets for a global spirits brand. Create strategic, on-brand creative concepts across channels, revise work based on client needs, present internally, and collaborate with creative and strategy teams. The role requires strong typography, design systems, brand guidelines, agency experience, and proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

Leads commercial and portfolio strategy for a major consumer brand portfolio. Owns analytical tools, frames business questions, evaluates complex datasets, develops commercially grounded recommendations, and partners across shopper, retail, creative, media, data, and client teams. Serves as a senior strategic advisor to brand, category, sales, and customer marketing leaders. Defines measurement plans, mentors strategists and analysts, and supports client and business growth.

Lead Engine’s brand and campaign platforms from concept through delivery across integrated campaigns, digital experiences, growth initiatives, product launches, social content, and brand moments. Partner with Brand Strategy, creative teams, and agencies to develop bold, insight-driven work, maintain high creative standards, present concepts to executives, and expand the brand across channels and formats.

Lead a team of motion designers and provide creative direction for 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, storyboards, styleframes, and advertising campaigns. Create hands-on design and animation work, oversee campaign assets, collaborate with clients and internal teams, provide feedback, improve workflows, and support budgeting and resource planning.

Leads creative strategy for multiple financial services brands by translating performance data and customer insights into messaging, briefs, testing strategies, and creative recommendations. Manages and mentors copywriters, guides execution, maintains brand voice, drives paid social evolution, evaluates results, and feeds learnings into future work. Partners with marketing, channel, business, design, and creative teams while using analytics and AI tools to improve ideation and production.

Create brand identity, visual design, art direction, and integrated campaign concepts across digital, print, retail, shopper marketing, social, healthcare communications, and experiential channels. Develop distinctive on-brand creative, revise work based on feedback, present concepts internally, and collaborate with strategy and creative teams. The role requires strong typography, brand systems, and agency experience, with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite proficiency.

Leads Creative and Design Operations for Enova Studios by managing workflows, traffic, dashboards, tools, vendors, SOPs, and operational improvements. The role administers Asana and integrates the broader tool stack, coordinates capacity and project execution, manages vendor relationships, and applies AI and automation to improve efficiency. It partners with leadership to establish priorities, surface risks, maintain visibility, and support both creative production and UX/product design workflows.

Leads B2B media strategy and planning across North America, developing planning frameworks, audience strategies, client media plans, pitches, and partner initiatives. The role guides agency strategists, supports priority technology accounts, strengthens brand and demand-generation programs, applies ABM principles, evaluates emerging media and measurement opportunities, and builds relationships with clients, platforms, and internal specialists. It combines hands-on strategic leadership, capability building, thought leadership, commercial growth, and executive communication.

Leads complex digital design and product initiatives across multiple workstreams, coordinating clients, designers, researchers, product owners, developers, and business partners. Establishes project processes, manages risks and dependencies, facilitates decisions, tracks outcomes, and communicates progress to stakeholders. Supports team capacity planning and mentors project managers while applying Agile practices and modern digital design tools.