Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own creative strategy for DTC and eCommerce brands, using customer insights, performance data, and direct-response principles to develop concepts, messaging, briefs, and testing roadmaps. Analyze paid social performance, guide creative iteration, collaborate with growth and media teams, review assets, coach designers, and advise clients on content and creative execution. The role requires strong Meta advertising expertise, commercial judgment, copywriting instincts, and independent ownership.

Lead Nex’s marketing creative direction from concept through launch, shaping campaigns across paid media, social, retail, launches, and partnerships. Develop concepts, art direct production, maintain a high creative standard, and provide hands-on feedback and execution. Build and coach the creative team, improve review processes, and partner with senior stakeholders to connect creative work to business outcomes. Operate independently in a fast-moving environment while strengthening Nex’s distinctive, playful brand.

Lead Recom’s creative expression across campaigns, sales materials, events, and digital channels. Establish visual standards, develop campaign concepts, direct design, copy, and video execution, and oversee creative production. Manage workflows, budgets, resources, and external partners while collaborating with marketing and commercial teams. Use buyer feedback and performance insights to improve creative effectiveness without compromising brand quality.

Own Proof’s brand strategy, architecture, visual and verbal identity, creative direction, and production across marketing, sales, product, events, and executive communications. Build brand systems, guidelines, templates, and governance; lead campaigns and launches; manage creative operations, budgets, agencies, and freelancers; and establish brand health metrics. Partner with product marketing, communications, product design, and revenue marketing to strengthen trust and differentiation in identity and fintech markets.

Lead and coach an enterprise SDR team while personally prospecting, qualifying opportunities, and managing a pipeline. Build scalable sales-development processes, messaging, sequences, qualification standards, and team routines. Partner with Account Executives, Sales leadership, and Marketing to identify target accounts and stakeholders. Conduct account research, tailored outreach, call reviews, role plays, and performance coaching while driving continuous improvement and accountability.

Leads pharmaceutical creative copy initiatives from concept through completion across interactive, motion, print, and other media. Partners with art directors, copywriters, strategists, and clients to align design, copy, UX, clinical data, and brand strategy. Responsibilities include mentoring creatives, managing teams and workflows, supporting staffing and scope decisions, strengthening client relationships, and delivering high-quality, profitable work. Requires significant pharmaceutical copywriting and launch experience.

Build tools, workflows, accelerators, and AI-powered experiences that improve creative and product workflows. Translate emerging AI capabilities into secure, performant, reusable code, demos, documentation, and shared patterns. Collaborate with design, product, copy, strategy, and production teams; present technical work to internal stakeholders and clients; and adapt between rapid experimentation and structured delivery.

Lead Huge’s marketing creative direction across brand and demand-generation channels. Develop campaign platforms, conceptual moments, social content, digital advertising, website visuals, emails, events, merchandise, and partner-facing assets. Guide work from concept through production while shaping the company’s refreshed brand expression. Collaborate with marketing, communications, growth, alliances, design, and creative teams, using AI tools to accelerate workflows while maintaining strong conceptual and visual craft.

Lead the creative direction and evolution of a consumer brand across TV, paid social, web, direct mail, packaging, and social channels. Build a consistent brand system, create high-quality work personally, develop performance-focused paid social creative, manage agencies and production budgets, and build a scalable creative team. Partner closely with growth leadership to connect creative quality with customer acquisition performance and establish broad awareness among American seniors and their families.

Supports the development, execution, optimization, and reporting of paid social campaigns across multiple platforms. Responsibilities include campaign builds, QA, launches, pacing and budget management, performance analysis, reporting, media planning, client communication, presentations, and cross-functional collaboration.

Owns the end-to-end creation of paid performance video for Kraken Consumer across launches, campaigns, promotions, and ongoing activity. Responsibilities include concepting, producing, editing, AI-assisted generation, platform-specific adaptation, localization, testing, and regulatory approval. The role interprets creative performance data to improve future concepts and cuts, supports paid static creative, maintains high production standards, and collaborates with marketing, compliance, product, and regional teams.

Produce, write, film, and edit promotional content for a television network, specializing in high-end image promos, sizzle reels, visual effects, compositing, and color grading. Collaborate with creative teams to develop campaigns, coordinate shoots and voiceover sessions, supervise graphic production, and deliver projects within deadlines and budgets.

Own a hands-on Meta video growth engine for a consumer AI assistant. Develop and iterate UGC, screen-recording, and B-roll ads; manage campaign structures, budgets, testing, and kill criteria; optimize for retention and conversion; extract messaging and product insights; and support Apple Search Ads. The role requires disciplined media buying, low-signal attribution experience, rapid creative iteration, and independent budget decisions.

Manage affiliate and partnership marketing programs for clients, including strategy, campaign execution, partner development, budget pacing, performance analysis, optimization, reporting, and invoicing. Build client and partner relationships, collaborate with cross-functional marketing teams, conduct competitive research, and provide data-driven recommendations to meet acquisition, booking, subscription, and other conversion goals.

Plans production and demand to ensure material availability, meet delivery deadlines, and minimize costs. Coordinates with procurement, quality, client services, and client planners; maintains demand data in Syteline; analyzes forecasts, material requirements, capacity constraints, and bottlenecks; manages schedules, project dates, and target quantities; and recommends process improvements while supporting food safety compliance.

Localize creative assets across 16+ languages and multiple formats using Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and motion graphics tools. Manage translation workflows in Smartling, adapt layouts for language expansion, maintain brand and design consistency, perform quality assurance, and coordinate files, timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables. The role supports digital, print, presentation, video, and multimedia localization while improving production workflows and asset organization.

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.

Owns end-to-end performance creative for paid social, CTV, and emerging channels. Responsibilities include concepting, scripting, directing production, editing video, developing performance-driven creative frameworks, analyzing results, managing agencies, and using AI tools to accelerate production. The role blends visual craft, brand building, media strategy, and data-informed iteration to create high-performing ads across TikTok, Meta, YouTube, and CTV.

Own end-to-end performance creative for paid social, CTV, and emerging channels. Concept, script, produce, edit, and iterate ads while translating performance data into creative direction. Develop hooks, angles, and frameworks; monitor platform and cultural trends; direct agencies and production partners; maintain high visual and brand standards; and use AI tools to accelerate ideation and production. The role connects creative craft, media strategy, analytics, and scalable growth outcomes.

Lead Golden Child’s brand strategy and creative direction across packaging, campaigns, content, digital experiences, partnerships, and events. Drive the rebrand and relaunch, develop original storytelling, guide paid creative, and build a lean internal creative team supported by external specialists. Manage creative briefs, budgets, production, packaging development, photography, film, and brand consistency while partnering with Growth, Product, Culinary, Veterinary Nutrition, Operations, and the founding team.

Create graphic designs, social media assets, animations, web and email visuals, and short-form videos for an open-source software project. Maintain branded asset libraries, align creative work with brand messaging, and potentially help guide the interface design of an SVG animation application. This is a flexible, fully remote, unpaid volunteer opportunity focused on portfolio development and practical experience.

Leads ICUC’s company-wide product automation and AI strategy, building a scalable automation blueprint for community management, insights, monitoring, and social listening services. Evaluates and pilots tools, develops impact reporting, partners with operations, marketing, growth, and client success, and drives adoption. This founding leadership role establishes the function, shapes AI positioning, builds organizational literacy, and connects automation innovation to improved client experiences and measurable business outcomes.

Lead social-first creative direction across client accounts: own voice and performance-minded creative, translate media signals into messaging, collaborate with creators, execute fast-turn edits and iPhone-native shoots, leverage AI workflows to generate variations, and ensure paid and organic alignment.

Own Overjet’s full-funnel content strategy and calendar across SMB and enterprise dental audiences. Create written, visual, data-driven, and interactive content; use AI tools to prototype and ship independently; manage SEO, AEO, engagement, brand, and conversion performance; influence pipeline; and develop thought leadership with internal experts, customers, partners, and KOLs. Collaborate with marketing, sales, demand generation, design, product, and social teams to strengthen Overjet’s position in dental AI.

Develop and lead performance creative strategy for paid acquisition across major advertising channels. Create briefs, identify concepts and messaging angles, analyze creative performance, structure testing frameworks, review ads, and guide creative partners. Research competitors and customer insights, optimize the full conversion funnel, and use AI tools to accelerate ideation and experimentation. The role focuses on improving customer acquisition through direct-response, DTC, and conversion-focused creative.