Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead high-level B2B paid acquisition on Meta and own creative strategy: develop angles, write direct-response copy (VSLs, ads, book-a-call pages), brief production, and run weekly coaching. Manage targeting, testing, pacing, and optimizations. Also shape organic Instagram and YouTube strategy. Must deliver measurable results and provide portfolio/work samples. Remote US/Canada, 9am-6pm ET.

The Production Designer creates high-quality, on-brand digital assets across various platforms, ensuring meticulous execution, managing multiple projects, and leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.

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.

Support and optimize creative workflows from intake to delivery, coordinate timelines and resources, track basic metrics, assist quality checks and onboarding, document processes, and collaborate with designers, copywriters, compliance, and cross-functional partners to improve creative operations.

Analyzes creative performance data, market trends, competitor work, and customer insights to strengthen marketing campaigns. Develops data-gathering and reporting systems, establishes benchmarks, tracks campaign results, and translates complex findings into clear recommendations for designers, copywriters, marketing partners, and senior leaders. Presents insights, leads educational sessions, manages multiple campaigns, and supports strategic creative decision-making.

Coordinates creative projects from kickoff through completion, manages timelines and deliverables, proofs print and digital materials for accuracy, maintains brand standards, collaborates with Design, Photo, Merchandising and Direct Marketing teams, and archives project files.

Own B&D’s visual brand expression and creative direction while personally designing high-priority work across digital, print, presentations, proposals, publications, events, social media, recruiting, and internal communications. Build scalable brand standards, templates, tools, workflows, and quality-control processes. Translate complex ideas and data into compelling visual communications, manage projects and external creative partners, and guide responsible adoption of AI and emerging creative technologies.

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.

Translate and creatively adapt marketing, entertainment, and multimedia content from English to Spanish (Spain). Collaborate with internal and linguistic teams, research cultural nuances, and ensure translations align with brand tone and guidelines. Review and provide feedback on marketing projects to improve quality and resonance.

Lead and run copy-first creative across Mangomint and sub-brands: own brand voice, campaign concepts, art direction for video and design, and quality control. Mentor direct reports (Copywriter, Sr. Video Production Manager), direct agency and internal designers, and partner with Creative Ops to manage delivery.

Develop and execute brand and visual design across marketing, digital, social, event, experiential, presentation, and identity touchpoints. Collaborate with marketing, creative, production, and cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency. Own campaigns and projects, present creative concepts and strategic narratives, incorporate feedback, and evolve Salesforce design systems and toolkits. Use AI-powered tools to improve creative workflows and storytelling while maintaining high-quality, detail-oriented output.

Lead brand-focused art direction and design for Salesforce marketing initiatives. Develop concepts, campaigns, and creative solutions across digital, print, interactive, web, mobile, video, social, and events. Partner with creative and marketing teams, present concepts, manage multiple projects, guide agencies and production partners, and ensure consistent, high-quality brand execution. The role requires strong design judgment, presentation skills, cross-functional collaboration, and expertise with creative AI and digital design tools.

Lead multidisciplinary creative teams across Kraft Heinz brand portfolios to develop integrated campaigns, social and retail/shopper experiences. Coach senior and junior creatives, collaborate with strategy and accounts, manage production and budgets, and deliver culturally relevant, award-ready work across consumer touchpoints.

Lead art direction for events and experiential activations from concept through on-site install. Design event footprints, map attendee journeys, create interactive/tech-driven moments, maintain brand and quality control, mentor junior designers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, present to stakeholders, manage multiple programs, and travel extensively to oversee execution.

Lead a multidisciplinary creative team supporting Data 360, partnering with Product Marketing to translate complex product narratives into cross-channel campaigns, digital and event experiences. Provide creative direction, mentorship, workload prioritization, agency oversight, and brand stewardship. Champion generative AI tools to accelerate ideation and production while ensuring cohesive, high-quality storytelling across channels.

Lead art direction for large-scale events, designing footprints and attendee journeys, translating brand strategy into physical experiences. Mentor designers, ensure production-ready deliverables, maintain quality control, direct environmental copy, present to senior stakeholders, and travel extensively to oversee on-site execution and real-time creative decisions.

Design original concepts and adapt master brand assets for events and activations. Produce execution-ready mechanicals for large-format print, fabrication, and digital output. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, present to stakeholders, manage multiple projects, and support on-site delivery, installation, and quality control.

Lead brand design production and operations: own roadmap, scope projects, manage multiple web/digital/social/event/sales collateral initiatives, scale design systems, de-risk delivery, enforce creative quality, and introduce AI tooling to improve studio efficiency.

Create original, playful illustrations and production-ready product designs under the Chief Creative Officer’s direction. Responsibilities include developing characters, patterns, motifs, and scenes; completing design sets; preparing print files, mockups, and product previews; maintaining style consistency; and delivering multiple projects on deadline. Occasional support may include storefront updates, A+ content, and CMYK ad images.

Translate creative briefs into finished campaign assets across digital, OOH, sales enablement and brand touchpoints. Own projects with light senior oversight, develop visual routes and design systems, ensure quality through production, and collaborate closely with writers, strategists, and art directors to strengthen and execute ideas.

Leads a creative pod of strategists, designers, editors, and ACDs while owning team development, retention, staffing, performance management, and client delivery. Provides executive-level creative strategy, handles escalations, oversees quality assurance, supports high-priority execution, and drives client retention and expansion. Owns the evolution of the creative service through innovation, AI adoption, training, and collaboration with R&D and platform partners. Requires extensive agency, creative, leadership, presentation, and multi-channel campaign experience.

Lead creative production and lifecycle email/SMS execution for DTC clients. Translate strategy into briefs, collaborate with copy/design/PM teams, build and QA emails, flows, and audience segments in ESPs, schedule and deploy campaigns, troubleshoot platform issues, and maintain organized account setups.

Owns performance creative strategy for 4–7 DTC client accounts, including direct-response scripts, briefs, testing frameworks, competitor research, creative roadmaps, and weekly ad performance analysis. Translates metrics into iteration strategies, collaborates with designers and editors, manages client approvals, presents creative updates, identifies asset needs, and uses AI tools to accelerate research and scripting while maintaining quality and confidentiality.

Lead the company’s visual brand expression across digital campaigns, websites, tradeshows, print, social, sales collateral, and executive presentations. Develop creative direction, visual storytelling, brand systems, templates, and scalable workflows. Partner with Marketing, Product, executives, agencies, and freelancers to deliver high-quality launches and campaigns. Manage and mentor a direct report while balancing strategic leadership with hands-on design execution across digital, physical, and experiential channels.

Design, implement, and optimize gameplay mechanics and systems. Collaborate with designers, artists, and developers to troubleshoot and refine code, optimize performance across platforms, and maintain clean modular code while staying current with game technologies.