Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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 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.

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 optimize end-to-end creative operations for Brand, owning intake, resourcing, capacity forecasting, Asana systems, vendor and budget stewardship, and cross-functional alignment to enable scalable, high-quality creative delivery across campaigns, events, video, and evergreen production.

Leads HiBob’s global creative vision, visual identity, brand governance, and high-impact campaigns across TV/CTV, OOH, experiential, and digital channels. Manages internal creatives, contractors, and agencies; partners with Brand, Regional Marketing, Demand Generation, and Product Marketing; establishes scalable creative review processes; and connects art direction to business performance. Drives AI-enabled design workflows using tools such as Runway and Midjourney while maintaining strong human creative judgment and brand consistency.

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.

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.

Analyze paid media creative performance, identify winning themes, plan content roadmaps, design and brief UGC, run creative tests with Growth and Production teams across Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube, and CTV, and translate insights into actionable strategies for clients.

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 end-to-end creative production for integrated campaigns across digital, social, video, print and experiential. Manage timelines, quality, and brand consistency while mentoring a production-focused creative team, refining workflows, coordinating cross-functional partners and vendors, and ensuring compliant, on-time launches.

Create, maintain, and control product specifications for co-manufactured food and OTC drug products. Coordinate cross-functional reviews, manage change controls, ensure compliance with food safety/GMP/labeling, maintain master data in SharePoint/ERP, support onboarding/commercialization, investigate specification issues, and keep audit-ready records.

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.

Leads media planning innovation and product enablement by integrating modern tools, processes, data sources, and platforms into client workflows. Develops training, playbooks, demos, and coaching programs to drive adoption across planning teams. Translates planning capabilities and insights into compelling new-business pitches, RFP/RFI responses, and agency storytelling. Partners with strategy, activation, analytics, and client leads to improve planning quality, consistency, execution, and business impact.

Manages creative agency timelines, workflows, budgets, reporting, governance, vendor contracts, and cross-functional priorities. Maintains project visibility through Aprimo, Jira, dashboards, and leadership updates. Supports creative strategy with competitive, consumer, cultural, and trend research, while overseeing awards, talent rights, asset archives, licensing, and compliance documentation.

Leads the senior agency relationship for a major retail client and oversees a broader portfolio. Accountabilities include executive client partnership, strategic direction, revenue and profitability, organic growth, integrated marketing, innovation and AI adoption, team leadership, and operational excellence. The role requires strong retail marketing expertise, C-suite relationship management, P&L oversight, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the ability to modernize client capabilities while maintaining commercial discipline and trust.

Leads omnichannel relationship marketing strategy for clients, translating first-party data, CRM, technology, trends, and analytics into actionable growth recommendations. Builds executive client relationships, develops marketing plans, identifies business opportunities, measures impact, and collaborates with account, creative, analytics, operations, and partner agency teams to execute strategies. The role requires significant data-driven marketing, agency or consulting, presentation, research, and client development experience, with 20–40% travel.

Create static paid-social ads (4:5, 9:16, 1:1) and multiple weekly variations for A/B testing. Use AI tools to accelerate concept, copy, and visual iterations; build modular templates for promotions; iterate from performance data and collaborate with growth on hooks, messaging, and layout to drive clicks and conversions.

Lead client relationships and manage day-to-day account operations for assigned clients. Oversee project briefs, timelines, budgets, cross-functional teams, campaign execution, financials, and presentations. Provide strategic guidance, identify growth opportunities, ensure quality and brand alignment, and support new business efforts.

Supports analyst relations and insights programs across Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and Everest Group. Responsibilities include maintaining content libraries, coordinating external communications, curating analyst insights, supporting client co-marketing, enabling internal teams, managing analyst relationships, and contributing to evaluation submissions such as Magic Quadrant, Wave, MarketScape, and PEAK Matrix responses. The role requires cross-functional project coordination, editorial judgment, data interpretation, presentation development, and strong stakeholder communication.

The Product Marketing Director will lead product marketing strategy, positioning, messaging, go-to-market execution, market research, launches, and post-launch optimization. The role serves as an Adobe technology subject matter expert and develops joint solutions with Merkle services. Responsibilities include cross-functional collaboration, KPI analysis, stakeholder engagement, competitive intelligence, and reporting to senior leadership. The position requires translating complex technical capabilities into customer benefits and driving product awareness, adoption, and growth.

Own the end-to-end creation and optimization of performance-driven advertising across TikTok, Meta, YouTube, CTV, and emerging channels. Develop concepts, scripts, hooks, creative frameworks, briefs, and edited video assets while maintaining strong visual and brand quality. Use performance data, platform trends, AI tools, and media insights to improve creative effectiveness. Direct agency and production partners, collaborate with growth and analytics teams, and scale Jerry’s creative output.

Own the end-to-end creation of performance-driven advertising across paid social, CTV, YouTube, and emerging channels. Develop concepts, scripts, hooks, creative frameworks, and video edits; translate performance data into creative direction; monitor platform and cultural trends; direct agencies and production partners; and use AI tools to accelerate production while improving brand quality and ad performance.

Join the Relationship Marketing Strategy Network at Merkle. This is a pipeline requisition for various levels within the RMS team.

The SVP, Solutions - Data & Technology develops strategies to position Dentsu's tech and data products for market success, collaborate on media initiatives, and guide innovative solutions to meet client needs, requiring deep industry knowledge.