Top Marketing Associate Jobs in Chicago, IL

Support product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market initiatives for Maria Ann, an enterprise RFQ and bid-response workflow platform. Create website, presentation, sales, and customer-facing content; develop use cases; assist with demonstrations and launches; research competitors, industries, and customer needs; and translate product features into business benefits while collaborating with leadership.

Leads media planning across complex client accounts, translating business goals into full-funnel strategies across brand and performance channels. Manages and develops planners, owns client relationships, partners with strategy, analytics, and investment teams, oversees measurement and optimization, and ensures plans drive business outcomes. Contributes to new business pitches, cross-agency collaboration, AI-enabled workflows, and the development of planning processes.

Coordinates information workflows for Sundance Film Festival print and digital publications. Responsibilities include gathering and auditing content, database entry, stakeholder communication, proofreading, copyediting, fact-checking, report exports, troubleshooting, and ensuring publications meet accuracy and house-style standards. The temporary full-time remote role requires strong organization, attention to detail, communication, confidentiality, and the ability to meet deadlines during extended hours.

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.

The Associate Brand Manager, Innovation develops brand strategies, analyzes market and consumer insights, supports sales, and leads marketing initiatives. Responsibilities include coordinating trade shows and promotional events, managing market research, evaluating marketing effectiveness, supporting product feasibility studies, and collaborating with R&D, regulatory, and commercial teams on new product concepts, claims, flavors, and naming territories.

Own paid search strategy and execution for 3–5 B2B client accounts across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and SA360. Lead forecasting, budget planning, campaign architecture, optimization, measurement, offline conversion tracking, CRM integration, and pipeline-focused analysis. Advise senior client stakeholders, maintain account quality, mentor junior team members, and collaborate with analytics, creative, and client strategy teams.

Build and moderate DraftKings’ Discord community by engaging sports betting fans, creating real-time content and events, responding to questions, monitoring sentiment, and sharing community insights cross-functionally. Support live-event coverage during evenings, weekends, and major sporting moments while maintaining a welcoming, responsible, and trusted community environment.

Develops concepts, campaign platforms, headlines, copy, scripts, and integrated creative executions for Hagerty’s brand and marketing initiatives. Collaborates with creative, strategy, marketing, and production teams; presents work to stakeholders; researches audiences and automotive trends; maintains brand voice standards; and mentors other creatives. The role owns projects from brief through execution and may require quarterly event travel.

Senior media planning leader responsible for integrated cross-channel strategy, client growth, executive presentations, agency initiatives, new business, talent development, and financial accountability. Translates audience insights, performance data, attribution, and marketplace trends into measurable recommendations across TV, digital, audio, social, search, programmatic, retail media, OOH, print, and emerging channels. Leads senior planning talent, advances AI-enabled tools and measurement capabilities, strengthens agency processes, and supports staffing, profitability, and client relationships.

Leads campaign strategy, creative concepting, messaging, copy direction, and performance creative testing for B2B and enterprise technology clients. Develops creative territories, headlines, CTAs, landing-page narratives, campaign briefs, and case studies while partnering with designers, paid media, sales, growth, and leadership. Supports new-business pitches and establishes a scalable, revenue-oriented creative practice grounded in hypotheses, testing, learning, and business outcomes.

Lead brand growth for Nutri-Grain and Special K through brand strategy, innovation, full-funnel marketing, budget management, market analysis, and commercialization. Partner cross-functionally with Innovation, Finance, Sales, R&D, Supply Chain, Insights, and agencies to translate consumer and business insights into action plans. Support social, influencer, media, and omnichannel activations while protecting brand positioning and driving performance.

Leads content, connections, and brand-building strategy for the Poise brand across media, owned platforms, search, social, influencer campaigns, digital commerce, shopper marketing, and retail media. Develops brand stories, analyzes market and consumer trends, oversees digital shelf experiences, creates toolkits and visualizations, and influences cross-functional teams to improve brand equity and market performance.

Lead US brand communications for priority pharmaceutical brands, developing external and internal campaigns for patients, healthcare professionals, regulatory milestones, data announcements, and scientific congresses. Manage media engagement, influencer partnerships, spokesperson training, issues and crisis communications, and stakeholder alignment. Establish campaign metrics, provide strategic counsel to brand teams, and collaborate with Corporate, R&D Communications, Medical Affairs, and Investor Relations.

Supports end-to-end marketing initiatives including RFPs, proposals, sales enablement, digital campaigns, website updates, trade shows, events, vendor coordination, reporting, calendars, budgets, and marketing operations. Collaborates with Sales, Product, Client Success, and external partners to deliver accurate, on-brand materials and programs on schedule.

Manages artist, music, tour, event, and entertainment brand partnerships for IJM. Responsibilities include developing marketing materials, tracking KPIs and budgets, researching partnership opportunities, coordinating production resources, leading project execution for 5–10 annual tours and events, managing on-site teams and volunteers, and building partner experiences. The role requires project management, fundraising, CRM expertise, marketing knowledge, communication skills, and up to 10% travel.

Supports consumer marketing and brand growth through strategic business planning, category and competitor analysis, P&L support, product innovation, pricing, merchandising, consumer research, marketing communications, and performance tracking. Collaborates with sales, finance, supply, regulatory, demand planning, global marketing, and agency partners. The four-month internship provides formal and on-the-job development, with potential consideration for full-time employment.

Leads senior-level, social-first strategy across influencer, community, earned, experiential, and owned channels. Translates cultural, qualitative, and quantitative insights into measurable client and business growth strategies; presents recommendations to executive stakeholders; leads pitches, RFPs, and expansion opportunities; mentors strategists; manages major workstreams; and collaborates across creative, talent, accounts, media, community, and measurement teams.

Develops and executes social media content and strategy for political campaigns and advocacy initiatives across multiple platforms. Owns daily content production, scheduling, community engagement, YouTube management, and amplification of local actions. Coordinates with internal and external stakeholders, supports digital and research projects, and produces impact and social activity reports. The role also assists with video production, leadership content, and issue-related communications.

Leads communications, media strategy, public relations, promotional partnerships, social media, influencer initiatives, and institutional storytelling for Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Writes and edits external communications, pitches stories, manages media relationships and calendars, coordinates interviews and events, develops community partnerships, oversees social strategy, and tracks coverage and engagement metrics. The role requires collaboration, strong communication, evening or weekend availability, and a commitment to inclusive workplace values.

Leads converged TV and digital video strategy, planning, activation, measurement, optimization, and client account supervision. Oversees campaigns across direct and programmatic channels, evaluates DSPs and publisher partnerships, analyzes performance data, develops strategic recommendations, and aligns video initiatives with broader marketing objectives. Provides team leadership, mentoring, process improvement, agency education, and support for new business and account onboarding.

Supports consumer marketing and brand growth through strategic business planning, category and competitor analysis, P&L recommendations, product launches, pricing, merchandising, consumer research, marketing communications, and performance tracking. Collaborates with sales, finance, regulatory, supply, demand planning, global marketing, and external agencies to execute local business plans. The internship offers formal and on-the-job development, with potential consideration for full-time employment.

Leads pharmaceutical advertising copy and creative projects across interactive, motion, print, and multimedia channels. Partners with art directors, copywriters, strategists, and clients to develop breakthrough work, apply clinical and competitive insights, manage multiple teams and workflows, and deliver projects on schedule and profitably. Mentors junior creatives, supports staffing and scope decisions, strengthens client relationships, and ensures copy, design, and UX align with strategic goals.

Early-career Marketing Associate supporting B2B SaaS campaigns across email, content, webinars, outbound programs, paid media, and digital marketing. Responsibilities include building HubSpot emails and automations, updating WordPress pages, managing audience segmentation, supporting Apollo campaigns, creating basic Canva graphics, conducting campaign quality assurance, tracking performance, researching markets, and maintaining marketing assets. The role is contract-to-perm and intended for a recent graduate or candidate with less than one year of marketing experience.

Lead integrated media strategy and client partnerships for DTC and marketplace brands across paid search, paid social, programmatic, and affiliate channels. Own client relationships, media recommendations, performance storytelling, creative testing direction, portfolio profitability, SOW management, budget allocation, and growth opportunities. Use GA4 and Shopify data to analyze customer journeys and inform strategy while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring junior staff.

Develops and optimizes digital performance marketing campaigns for Amplify’s education products. Responsibilities include creating email, advertising, landing page, and automation assets; managing paid media; tracking campaign KPIs and conversion data; coordinating vendors and internal teams; reporting insights; and recommending optimization strategies. The role also uses analytics, attribution, CRM, project management, and AI marketing tools while supporting direct-report development.