Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads creative strategy for multiple financial services brands by translating performance data and customer insights into messaging, briefs, testing strategies, and creative recommendations. Manages and mentors copywriters, guides execution, maintains brand voice, drives paid social evolution, evaluates results, and feeds learnings into future work. Partners with marketing, channel, business, design, and creative teams while using analytics and AI tools to improve ideation and production.

Leads Creative and Design Operations for Enova Studios by managing workflows, traffic, dashboards, tools, vendors, SOPs, and operational improvements. The role administers Asana and integrates the broader tool stack, coordinates capacity and project execution, manages vendor relationships, and applies AI and automation to improve efficiency. It partners with leadership to establish priorities, surface risks, maintain visibility, and support both creative production and UX/product design workflows.

Lead Circle’s creative direction and brand narrative across launches, campaigns, advertising, video, events, partnerships, and other major company moments. Work closely with founders, design, product marketing, paid media, video, and events teams to create distinctive, high-performing storytelling. Shape creative concepts, scripts, copy, and experiences while raising quality through influence, collaboration, and strong creative judgment.

Design and build AI-enabled internal workforce tools and prototypes. Lead UX, information architecture, front-end prototyping (HTML/CSS/JS), evaluate LLM tools, run enablement sessions, onboard users, track adoption, and produce guidance and learning materials to support AI adoption across the organization.

Develop and lead direct-response video advertising for pet health, food, and beauty brands across social platforms. Responsibilities include ideating concepts, writing scripts, directing shoots and interviews, supervising editors, coordinating videographers, analyzing ad performance, optimizing creative, managing testing pipelines, mentoring a junior producer, and reporting results to creative leadership.

Owns paid media ad trafficking and ad-serving operations, including creative setup, placement structures, rotation, tagging, pixel validation, delivery monitoring, discrepancy resolution, quality assurance, vendor coordination, reporting, and configuration hygiene. The role works with marketing technology, web teams, publishers, agencies, and vendors to ensure accurate campaign launches and ongoing measurement across display, video, native, and rich media channels.

Leads NinjaTrader’s visual and creative direction across marketing. The role operationalizes and governs the brand identity system, directs integrated campaigns and storytelling, owns marketing web and lifecycle creative, and serves as the final quality gate for brand expression. Responsibilities include hiring and developing an in-house design team, managing agencies and freelancers, building scalable creative processes, partnering with product and performance marketing, and ensuring compliance in a regulated environment. The director remains hands-on in concepting, design, writing direction, and video production.

Supports social media and creative marketing initiatives by planning and managing content, capturing and editing videos and photos, coordinating branded materials, managing print orders, and supporting email, website, print, and paid advertising campaigns. Collaborates with internal teams, agencies, and vendors to deliver projects on time while engaging customers and building brand awareness and leads.

Leads Industrial Design and Graphic Design teams while directing creative strategy, customer presentations, concept development, product development, and project execution. Reviews designs for visual quality, technical feasibility, manufacturability, cost, and retail suitability. Manages workloads, resources, schedules, estimating, and design processes while partnering with Sales, Engineering, and customers. Provides hands-on support with CAD, sketching, rendering, prototyping, and concept development as needed.

Supports sales professionals with client research, promotion ideation, presentations, contracts, invoicing, reporting, and prospecting. Builds client and brand expertise, participates in client and internal meetings, facilitates best practices, identifies lead-generation opportunities, and may serve as the primary client contact. The role combines account management, strategic analysis, customer service, and consultative sales activities.

Leads IBKR’s global creative, social, content, video, and brand partnerships functions. Defines creative vision and brand standards, oversees integrated campaigns across multiple channels, guides creator and influencer programs, partners with legal, compliance, media, and analytics teams, and manages a multidisciplinary creative organization. The role requires strong leadership, communication, judgment, organizational, and analytical skills.

Develop and execute brand and visual design across marketing, digital, social, events, experiential experiences, presentations, and brand identity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain brand consistency, own creative projects and campaigns, present design concepts, incorporate feedback, and evolve design systems and toolkits. Use AI-enabled tools and creative software to improve workflows and storytelling while maintaining high-quality, detailed work.

Leads end-to-end creative strategy across advertising, sports partnerships, internal campaigns, and events. Uses qualitative and quantitative research to identify audience insights, shape creative briefs, differentiate the Salesforce brand, and guide creative testing and optimization. Partners with brand, marketing, and creative teams to ensure strategic alignment, measurable business impact, and effective execution across global initiatives.

Leads creative vision and integrated art-and-copy execution for pharmaceutical and wellness clients. Directs multidisciplinary creative leaders, oversees strategic and regulatory quality, manages senior client relationships, develops talent, and partners cross-functionally on brand plans and communication strategies. The role also guides business performance, staffing, resource allocation, and agency growth while delivering distinctive work across brands, audiences, and channels.

Leads agency growth and new-business initiatives for performance creative offerings. Oversees pitch processes, RFP responses, proposals, competitive research, and presentation development while coaching cross-functional teams. Partners with agency and client executives to articulate how paid media, CRM, AI-driven creative, data, and programmatic capabilities drive conversion, ROI, and business growth.

Leads day-to-day client account management for a major retail client, serving as the primary contact among client stakeholders, partner agencies, and internal delivery teams. Responsibilities include managing marketing campaign schedules, scopes, deliverables, meetings, timelines, quality, communication, and cross-functional alignment while maintaining strong client relationships and supporting broader account strategy.

Leads art direction and multimedia creative development for pharmaceutical marketing campaigns. Develops compelling concepts, presents creative visions, guides teams, collaborates with clients, supports new business, and ensures work aligns with therapeutic, brand, legal, and industry requirements. Requires strong pharmaceutical marketing knowledge, AOR experience, strategic and conceptual expertise, leadership abilities, a strong portfolio, and proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Leads and inspires motion designers while providing creative direction for 2D and 3D animation campaigns. Develops storyboards and styleframes, oversees campaign assets, delivers hands-on design and animation, provides feedback, collaborates with clients, improves workflows, and supports budgeting and resource planning. Requires advanced motion design expertise, strong design and technical skills, and proficiency with Cinema 4D, Redshift, Adobe tools, and animation pipelines.

Manages end-to-end creative projects across marketing, communications, digital, print, video, motion, and events. Builds scalable intake, briefing, review, approval, and workflow processes; coordinates timelines, resources, stakeholders, agencies, and vendors; monitors project health and operational metrics; and improves delivery efficiency, capacity planning, and cross-functional collaboration.

Paid, full-time, in-person summer internship involving research, pitch materials, script coverage, tracking updates, presentations, departmental shadowing, networking, professional development, and a community service project. Internships vary by location and department across talent, literary, marketing, design, sports, touring, corporate, technology, and strategic business groups.

Lead copy-focused creative strategy for B2B and enterprise technology campaigns. Develop messaging territories, campaign concepts, headlines, CTAs, landing-page narratives, and testing recommendations. Partner with designers, paid media, sales, growth, and account teams to turn briefs into performance-oriented creative. Support pitches, speculative work, case studies, and campaign testing while establishing scalable creative processes, review rhythms, and message libraries tied to business outcomes.

Reconstruct executive sales, revenue, and go-to-market presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. Improve visual storytelling, message hierarchy, data visualization, content clarity, and executive-ready aesthetics while preserving effective elements. Document the rationale for every change and omission, assess slide effectiveness, and complete project-based sprint assignments. The role requires strong sales and GTM expertise, presentation design ability, critical thinking, attention to detail, and written communication.

Supports performance-driven creative strategy across UGC, paid social, static, and motion content. Develops concepts, hooks, briefs, and creative testing strategies; coordinates creators through production; reviews content and provides feedback; monitors social trends; collaborates with account management, paid media, designers, and editors; and contributes to client presentations, testing insights, and process improvements.

Lead Engine’s end-to-end creative strategy and production across digital, experiential, event, brand, and performance marketing. Build AI-assisted creative workflows, tooling, prompt libraries, asset systems, QA processes, and testing frameworks. Partner with Growth and Brand to improve creative velocity, performance, and brand consistency. Lead designers, editors, AI specialists, and producers while contributing hands-on creative direction and craft.

Develop and execute creative marketing campaigns and social content to grow Vana's brand and community. Create copy, visuals, and timely Web3/AI-focused content, manage social channels, engage communities, partner with influencers, track KPIs, and optimize performance.