Top Creative Marketing Jobs in Chicago, IL

Concept, craft, and produce earned-first creative across social, digital, video and 360 campaigns. Collaborate cross-functionally, manage multiple projects, lead team members, coordinate production and budgets, present to clients, and drive client approvals. Maintain portfolios and deliver work that is social-first, culturally relevant, and award-caliber.

Own paid social creative strategy across client portfolios, developing messaging frameworks and translating consumer insights, performance data, and competitive research into creative direction. Lead client presentations, reporting, testing roadmaps, QA, approvals, and cross-functional collaboration with copy, video, design, lifecycle, and analytics teams. Mentor junior strategists and creative contributors while ensuring campaigns remain strategically aligned, on-brand, and optimized for performance.

Develop and critique YouTube video concepts, design formats and challenge structures, own performance reviews across channels, analyze metrics (CTR, view duration, retention) to inform creative decisions, and recommend what content to make or stop making.

Lead paid social creative strategy for multiple clients using data-driven insights, consumer and brand research. Develop testable creative concepts, write scripts and ad copy, manage production and post-production feedback, present performance-driven creative reporting to clients, and iterate to improve KPIs like CPA, CTR, and ROAS.

Leads Stripe’s copy, creative concepts, and global campaigns across film, digital, print, OOH, and activations. Owns ideas from strategy through launch, writes and sharpens campaign language, presents work to senior stakeholders, directs agencies, builds brand-in-culture partnerships, experiments with AI-enabled creative workflows, and raises creative standards across teams. Requires strong conceptual thinking, language craft, stakeholder management, and experience selling ambitious work through.

Own Talkiatry’s paid social creative strategy and testing roadmap across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other channels. Analyze creative performance metrics to develop hypotheses, briefs, and scalable messaging frameworks that improve patient acquisition and reduce CAC. Manage creator and agency partnerships, UGC pipelines, asset workflows, and cross-functional execution while leading innovative, patient-centered campaigns for mental healthcare.

The Associate Creative Director will lead and execute content strategies, manage projects, collaborate with teams, and ensure brand voice consistency across various formats in a remote-first environment.

Develops conversion-focused creative strategies for paid social and organic content. Responsibilities include writing ad scripts and briefs, storyboarding, producing UGC ads, coordinating creators and production partners, building creative roadmaps, analyzing performance data, presenting client reports, improving creative operations, and serving as the strategic and creative lead for clients.

Develop and lead creator marketing campaign strategies for enterprise beauty accounts across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Own audience profiling, creator casting logic, creative concepts, messaging, briefs, measurement frameworks, trend analysis, and performance recommendations. Present strategic insights to clients, collaborate with internal teams, support pitches and new business, and build client relationships through data-driven, culturally relevant campaign strategies.

Leads the visual identity and creative strategy for Outside Magazine and digital editorial platforms. Oversees design, photography, illustration, photo shoots, budgets, freelancers, vendors, and cross-functional creative initiatives. Responsibilities include directing magazine and web features, developing newsletter and social assets, launching a photo hub, integrating video into editorial systems, partnering on site design, and creating branded merchandise.

Own and execute email and newsletter strategies to convert subscribers into bookings. Run growth experiments, A/B tests, segmentation and lifecycle campaigns. Collaborate on landing pages and user flows, use data to optimize performance, and craft emotionally resonant copy that communicates VAWAA’s creative mission.

The Art Director will develop creative concepts for influencer marketing campaigns, lead ideation, and partner with strategists and client teams to deliver impactful work while staying attuned to cultural trends.

Develop and execute conversion-driven creative for e-commerce clients: write scripts/briefs, storyboard, produce UGC and platform ads, manage shoots and partners, analyze performance, build roadmaps, and present client reports.

Develop creative campaign strategies rooted in consumer psychology for frequent product launches. Translate cultural insights into narratives, collaborate with Design/Marketing/Production, analyze campaign performance, and build a new creative strategy function within a global remote team.

Lead creative strategy and build scalable AI-powered creative systems for performance marketing. Design static and video ads, run experimentation across major acquisition channels, analyze results with performance tools, and optimize creative workflows and templates to drive acquisition at scale.

Design and execute B2C email campaigns from concept through launch using Figma. Write and proofread email copy, apply email best practices, collaborate with stakeholders, manage multiple campaigns, document design decisions, and use performance data to optimize creative and templates.

Lead end-to-end creative strategy and hands-on design for large-scale B2C email campaigns. Own concepting, copywriting, responsive Figma designs, stakeholder alignment, testing, and iterative improvements. Establish templates, standards, and processes, mentor peers, and use performance data to optimize campaign effectiveness while ensuring brand, accessibility, and technical delivery constraints are met.

Lead visual art direction for customer marketing and brand partnerships across campaigns, co-branded activations, editorial, digital, social, and experiential work. Translate complex B2B/technology narratives into clear, human visual concepts; maintain brand coherence across multi-format programs; drive concepting and execution; mentor junior designers; collaborate with cross-functional teams from brief through delivery; manage multiple fast-paced workstreams and evolve brand visual identity.

Lead copy development for customer stories, co-branded campaigns, editorial, digital, social, and experiential touchpoints. Interview customers, shape unified narratives, collaborate with cross-functional creative teams, drive concepting, uphold brand voice, and manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

The Digital Marketing Specialist will develop and execute digital marketing campaigns, create content, manage social media, and maintain the website.

Lead Apothekary's creative direction across brand, advertising, packaging, digital and retail. Drive concept-to-execution for campaigns, own photo/video production, manage and mentor internal and external creative teams, track performance and budgets, and collaborate with marketing, product, and digital teams to deliver strategy-led creative that scales the brand.

Lead transformation of a 50+ person creative studio into an AI-enabled Content House. Own brand and content strategy, scalable content systems, editorial standards, operations, capacity planning, vendor model, performance dashboards, and connect creative output to enrollment and CAC metrics while developing senior creative leaders.

Lead creative strategy for organic short-form and paid social across TikTok, Instagram, and Meta. Write scripts and briefs, produce high-volume ad variations (30–50/month), iterate from performance data, collaborate with media buyer, and maintain platform trend expertise to turn attention into customers.

Produce high-volume short-form video and static ad creative for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Edit footage, craft hooks/scripts, coordinate UGC/on-camera talent, manage posting schedules, track basic performance metrics, and create email marketing campaigns. Execute briefs rapidly, iterate on winning creatives, and grow into greater strategic ownership over time.

Lead creative vision and manage end-to-end production of assets across digital, print, video, social, advertising, events, and branded content. Oversee and mentor designers, writers, and vendors, ensure brand consistency and quality, manage timelines and budgets, collaborate cross-functionally, and measure creative performance.