Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

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 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.

Design, implement, and analyze creative marketing tests; summarize results with actionable recommendations; maintain research repositories; build results decks; collaborate with Brand R&D and partners to improve creative assets and testing processes.

Lead and inspire a creative team to develop insight-driven marketing campaigns for Capital One's Retail Bank, collaborating with strategists and partners to enhance customer experience and brand strategy.

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.

The Senior Creative Designer will lead creative projects, develop visual systems, and collaborate with teams to enhance SmartBear's brand identity across various platforms and channels.

The Creative Director leads branding and marketing strategies, manages creative teams, oversees design quality, and collaborates across departments to meet business objectives.

The Brand and Creative Lead is responsible for developing brand guidelines, designing creative assets, and ensuring brand consistency while collaborating with marketing teams and external vendors.

Lead the Creative Serving engineering team to define strategy, roadmap, and execution. Translate business goals into technical deliverables, collaborate with ML and product stakeholders, ensure high-uptime integrations with partner exchanges, provide technical guidance and feedback, enforce engineering best practices, balance short- and long-term priorities, and mentor engineers into future leaders.

The Art Director will develop and oversee visual identity through video and motion graphics for NinjaTrader Live, managing projects and collaborating with teams to ensure high-quality output.

Lead and centralize copy across Ashley Digital, defining brand voice, messaging strategy, and editorial systems. Build and manage a team of writers, implement AI-enabled workflows and content systems, oversee multi-channel campaign and product copy, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, conversion-focused storytelling at scale.

The Principal Creative, Copy will develop impactful branding and messaging, lead multi-channel campaigns, and ensure compliance in financial communications. Requires strong storytelling and collaboration skills.

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.

The Process Lead enhances production performance by focusing on safety, efficiency, and quality. Responsibilities include analyzing processes, training staff, managing performance metrics, and collaborating with other departments to optimize operations.

Manage demand planning for multiple clients by maintaining production schedules, using BI tools and Excel, updating client demand in Syteline, leading weekly planning calls, assessing capacity risks, coordinating with Procurement/Production/Quality/Client Services, and visiting production floors to ensure on-time deliveries and resource availability.

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 concepting, art direction, and execution of seasonal campaigns and brand storytelling across digital, retail, and physical channels. Direct photo/video shoots, mentor a small creative team, collaborate with merchandising, e-comm, and marketing to produce performance-driven assets, and manage external production partners.

The Revenue Accounting Analyst ensures compliance with revenue recognition standards, supports contract maintenance, and collaborates with various finance teams to manage client financial data effectively.

Lead and shape creative work across brand, marketing, and product campaigns. Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary team, contribute hands-on design, ensure quality and brand consistency, translate business goals into creative concepts, oversee delivery, and establish processes while balancing timelines and budgets.

Manage media planning for large retail-focused accounts, design integrated multi-channel campaigns (TV, CTV, Video, Social, Programmatic, Audio), coordinate with creative and channel teams, own client communication, analyze competitive landscapes and agency reports, manage budgets and deliverables, and recommend media channel selection and new opportunities.

Lead and inspire a creative team to develop strategic, brand-aligned multimedia campaigns for pharmaceutical and therapeutic clients. Oversee concept development, presentations, mentorship, and ensure work meets regulatory and marketing objectives while fostering DEI.

The Associate Creative Director, Copy leads creative communication projects in healthcare, ensuring collaboration among teams to deliver innovative, impactful design and copy that meets strategic client goals.

The Director of Integrated Media Planning will lead media strategy, oversee budgets, coordinate multi-channel teams, and manage client relationships.

Lead creative operations for an internal agency: design workflows, manage intake/prioritization, oversee contractor workforce and external suppliers, control multi-million dollar budgets, and improve capacity planning and delivery across a 30+ person team.

Assist Project Manager in design, construction, and completion of large-scale venue projects, handling document control, communication, and administrative functions.