Top Marketing Associate Jobs in Chicago, IL

Support business development for co-brand and private label card partnerships by conducting market research, developing marketing plans and forecasts, creating pitch materials and creative assets, responding to RFI/RFPs, shaping value propositions, and coordinating transitions to account management and contracting reviews.

Manages internal and external training communications, including editing training content, writing emails, blogs, newsletters, infographics, and SharePoint content. Develops communication strategies, ensures adherence to style guidelines, collaborates with subject matter experts, maintains organizational knowledge, supports brand initiatives, and evaluates communication results.

Support execution of GTM plans for Supply Chain & Manufacturing solutions by translating portfolio strategy into integrated campaigns, coordinating content and digital activation, tracking performance against KPIs, enabling sales with core materials, and maintaining campaign documentation and CRM reporting. Partner cross-functionally to drive awareness, engagement and pipeline.

Support execution of AI and commercial go-to-market plans by coordinating integrated campaigns, sales enablement, and performance tracking. Manage campaign activation across channels, maintain messaging and asset libraries, synthesize performance insights, and ensure CRM/data entry and attribution. Partner cross-functionally with content, digital, field, and solution teams to deliver timely, high-quality marketing deliverables that drive awareness, engagement, and pipeline.

Lead strategy, creative development, and execution of balance transfer marketing campaigns across email, digital, and direct mail. Use performance metrics and testing frameworks to optimize campaigns, collaborate with internal stakeholders and external agencies, translate business goals into creative briefs and test plans, and manage multiple projects and processes with high accuracy.

Lead and contribute to brand creative for Retail Bank across digital channels. Define briefs with Creative Directors, manage Art Directors and Copywriters, design paid social/display/email/web/SEM, use data to inform decisions, present work to stakeholders, mentor team members, and manage multiple projects to deliver effective marketing creative.

Manage strategy and coordination of in-person and digital events, ensuring they meet KPIs and stakeholder needs. Collaborate across teams for promotional strategies and post-event evaluations.

Support market readiness and go-to-market initiatives for treasury and payments: manage data-driven project roadmap, create client messaging and pitch materials, enable sales readiness and training, leverage analytics, AI, and automation to drive strategic client engagement and internal training.

Lead planning, execution, QA, and optimization of large-scale programmatic paid media campaigns using manual and automated methods. Mentor junior staff, manage budgets and pacing, troubleshoot delivery issues, implement automation and reporting, ensure compliance, and present performance insights to stakeholders.

Develop and execute internal communications strategies for Midwest corporate and tech centers. Create employee newsletters, intranet content, emails, digital signage, and event communications; support crisis communications; build relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders; manage projects end-to-end and produce clear, engaging content that amplifies campus events and community initiatives.

The Lifecycle Marketing Associate will develop and execute lifecycle campaigns for the Frisbee app, enhance user engagement and retention, and analyze campaign performance.

Lead Paid Search strategy and performance for Higher Education clients, driving enrollment-focused paid search programs across multi-account portfolios. Set vision, scale performance frameworks, manage multimillion-dollar budgets, mentor a search team, own execution and measurement, partner with analytics for attribution, and deliver executive-level reporting and growth recommendations.

Design, build, test, and optimize Salesforce Marketing Cloud journeys and multi-audience email campaigns. Translate audience insights into marketing plans, create automations and personalized content using AMPscript/SQL, monitor performance, troubleshoot technical issues, document processes, and collaborate with MarTech and cross-functional partners to enable efficient campaign delivery and continuous improvement.

Lead SEO/AEO strategy by analyzing search data, customer intent, and competitive trends. Build content roadmaps, optimize content for AI/answer-first discovery, audit and improve pages for discoverability and conversion, create executive presentations, own channel reporting, and partner cross-functionally to prioritize opportunities, forecasts, and test-and-learn plans that drive measurable growth.

Lead category management and shopper insights for drug channel retailers (CVS, Walgreens). Convert retail and shopper data into actionable category, promotional, and merchandising recommendations, build recurring and ad-hoc analyses and customer-facing presentations, support digital commerce analysis, and drive planogram/shelving strategy to grow category profitability.

Manage marketing operations for eCommerce growth: enforce asset governance, prioritize creative production, traffic ads, ensure data integrity in reporting, analyze campaign performance, and present recommendations to improve campaign strategy and execution.

Own demand generation execution for field plays, sponsorships, gifting, and third-party partnerships. Manage vendor contracts, budgets, campaign integration, outreach sequencing, event follow-up, ROI tracking, and reporting. Build and deploy AI-assisted workflows and agents with human review. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders (Sales, XDR, Field Marketing), iterate program performance, and travel ~15-20% for offsites.

Create and publish platform-first social content (graphics, short-form video, carousels) that captures cultural and real-time sports moments. Use trend and performance insights to inform strategy, write on-brand copy, build community engagement, and partner with internal teams to align campaigns and optimize content.

Support media planning by interpreting campaign performance, building proposals and measurement plans, managing workflows for assigned accounts, acting as day-to-day client contact, and learning integrated digital channels and Basis platform capabilities to drive campaign execution and account growth.

Produce and edit content for daily newscasts and digital platforms. Collaborate with producers, reporters, anchors, and directors to write, stack, and edit video, research stories, post segments online, and support breaking news editorial decisions. Serve as fill‑in producer as needed while maintaining newsroom standards, journalistic integrity, and brand consistency under deadline pressure and varied shift schedules.

Drafts, edits, and distributes client marketing communications across email, websites, press releases, social media, newsletters, and content hubs. Creates long-form content and marketing collateral, conducts interviews and fact-checking, updates websites, manages advertising materials, and maintains schedules, distribution lists, files, budgets, and inventories. The role supports multiple nonprofit clients in a fast-paced environment and requires strong writing, editing, organization, and project-management skills.

Lead development and implementation of firmwide brand strategy, narratives, and integrated campaigns. Serve as brand steward, measure brand performance, manage agencies, build an alumni program, and mentor a team while collaborating across marketing, client development, and technical teams to drive B2B professional services growth.

Lead practice-level marketing strategy for M&A, PE, and Capital Markets: translate plans into campaign briefs, define audience/personalization logic, direct practice-development roadmaps, steward budgets and sponsorship ROI, craft high-stakes pitch narratives, interpret analytics for optimization, collaborate cross-functionally, and manage, mentor, and supervise direct reports and staffing processes.

Lead creative strategy for multi-channel client engagements, translate research into audience-first creative platforms, manage projects end-to-end, integrate AI tools, direct cross-functional teams, drive pitches and new business, mentor junior staff, and present to executives to ensure strategic alignment and measurable business impact.

The Director oversees programmatic campaign execution, manages client and vendor relationships, and develops client solutions while ensuring performance accountability and team management.