Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead the development and execution of visual brand and marketing assets across digital, print, video, web, advertising, and events. Own brand guidelines, templates, design systems, creative intake and production workflows, freelance and agency relationships, and AI-assisted production using Claude and complementary tools. Partner cross-functionally, manage creative pipelines and priorities, present design recommendations, maintain brand consistency, and evolve scalable agentic workflows for repeatable creative tasks.

Creates and ships high-quality, on-brand AI-generated advertising for enterprise clients. Partners with Solutions Engineering and marketing teams to translate brand guidelines into AI workflows, produce imagery, video, and copy, optimize creative through A/B testing and performance analysis, and provide product feedback to engineering and product teams.

Design and launch 0-to-1 AI-powered marketing tools for Hightouch’s Agents product suite. Responsibilities include rapid prototyping, customer research, synthesizing usage data and feedback, shaping product strategy, and collaborating with designers, engineers, and product managers. The role requires strong visual, UI, and interaction design skills, comfort with ambiguity, curiosity about AI, and rapid iteration in a remote-first environment.

Build and operate full-stack, agent-powered creative features across frontend, backend, APIs, data storage, infrastructure, and asynchronous workflows. Develop model orchestration and integrations for audio, image, and video generation; improve scalability, performance, security, testing, monitoring, and reliability. Own problems from discovery and prototyping through deployment and ongoing operation while collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams.

Build and operate production creative agents for audio, image, and video generation. Develop backend systems for asynchronous, long-running tasks; improve agent prompts, tools, orchestration, models, MCP integrations, evaluations, monitoring, scalability, and security. Own features end to end, from prototyping and customer discovery through frontend delivery, production support, and collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.

Leads creative direction for Class launches, campaigns, product launches, and marketing communications. Develops concepts, brand voice, copy, design, art direction, video, and animation while remaining hands-on. Collaborates with brand, performance marketing, enterprise, and product teams; mentors multidisciplinary creatives; maintains quality and consistency; and drives innovative, strategically aligned work for a global audience.

Own the performance creative lifecycle for Pomelo’s menopause program, including patient research, trend analysis, concept development, asset production, creative operations, and campaign performance analysis. Build efficient workflows, manage agencies and creators, accelerate testing cycles, and use paid-channel data to scale winning concepts and retire underperforming assets. Partner with Growth and cross-functional teams to balance brand identity, clinical nuance, and direct-response performance.

Leads Amplifi’s U.S. workforce and resource management strategy, including capacity forecasting, hiring plans, utilization, allocation, team design, staffing, talent mobility, progression, contingent workforce policy, cost optimization, and workforce technology. Partners with Finance, Talent/HR, Commercial, Client Operations, and business leaders to align staffing with funded scope, improve delivery efficiency, manage redeployment and departures, and develop future capabilities across media, technology, AI, and automation.

Build strategic partnerships between Skyline, Citi’s internal creative agency, and internal marketing stakeholders. The role develops account intelligence, identifies proactive opportunities, leads strategic intake and solution shaping, maintains account plans, coordinates governance, and communicates measurable business impact. The Account Manager translates business priorities into creative and strategic briefs, connects stakeholders with agency capabilities, manages risks and opportunities, and supports broader adoption of creative, data, insights, and operational services.

Manages intake, triage, scoping, scheduling, and assignment of creative requests across design, video, digital, and motion graphics. Serves as the liaison between internal clients and the creative studio, develops complete briefs, tracks milestones and asset delivery, manages expectations, and coordinates studio bandwidth and resources. Requires strong creative production knowledge, project workflow expertise, communication, diplomacy, and multitasking skills.

Owns Investor Education’s visual identity, brand standards, video strategy, and digital content production across web, email, social, print, and events. Manages video production, website updates, accessibility compliance, performance metrics, and user experience improvements. Coordinates business continuity, management self-testing, compliance documentation, and risk remediation. Partners with internal teams and external vendors, supports events and departmental projects, and provides guidance to interns and junior marketing staff.

Lead creative strategy and execution for Retail Bank and Café marketing across digital, email, direct mail, video, and out-of-home channels. Manage creative employees, contractors, and agencies; coach talent; collaborate with marketing and business partners; interpret research and testing results; develop customer-focused campaigns; and present strategies to influence stakeholders. Candidates must provide a creative portfolio and apply evidence-based marketing, personalization, optimization, and emerging AI capabilities.

Own creative strategy for organic social, paid acquisition, UGC, creators, and launches. Develop briefs, hooks, scripts, and copy; direct internal teams and external partners; establish repeatable production and testing processes; and use performance data to scale winning concepts. The role also shapes Rare Candy’s brand voice, messaging, launch plans, and creative reporting while partnering closely with Growth leadership and the CEO.

Own performance-driven creative strategy across paid social accounts, using research, consumer insights, platform data, and testing frameworks to develop and iterate high-converting concepts. Write performance copy, translate quantitative and qualitative feedback into creative decisions, collaborate with design, editing, and media buying teams, mentor junior creatives, and present strategy and performance rationale to clients.

Leads enterprise transformation advisory engagements involving Adobe Experience Cloud, AI and agentic capabilities, organizational readiness, operating model design, governance, workflow optimization, and change management. Advises senior client executives, guides delivery pods, develops value realization frameworks, facilitates workshops, identifies operational risks, and supports strategic account growth and new-service sales.

Create storyboards and animatics for animation and game projects by translating scripts into clear visual sequences with pacing and camera direction. Collaborate with directors, animators, and designers, iterate on feedback, and maintain narrative flow and stylistic consistency.

Create concept characters, environments, and props from brief to polished visuals. Collaborate with art directors, animators, and production teams, iterate quickly, and maintain visual quality across games, animation, and film projects.

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.

Freelance SME to review, validate, and refine a four-course Coursera specialization on AI-powered creative strategy. Conduct three-stage reviews (outline, full script, on-platform final), ensure source fidelity, verify Meta Ads Manager workflows and AI creative setups, draft/clean copy, and produce screencasts as needed. Up to 80 project hours, remote.

Leads consulting engagements and develops loyalty, promotions, retention, customer engagement, CRM, and customer experience strategies for major brands. Responsibilities include discovery, program design, business cases, roadmaps, data-informed recommendations, client relationship development, cross-functional collaboration, and loyalty thought leadership. The role requires influencing senior client stakeholders and guiding engagement teams across creative, technology, data, and account management disciplines.

Own creative strategy and hands-on execution across web, paid media, email, direct mail, and social. Design campaign assets, create and appear in short-form video, manage customer stories and creator partnerships, maintain an approved asset library, and establish testing and performance measurement processes. The role also supports brand identity rollout, SEO-oriented content, compliance reviews, and organic social growth.

Research prospects, conduct outbound outreach, qualify leads, book meetings, and support proposal development for new business. Maintain CRM data, pipeline reports, and forecasting while collaborating with the VP of Business Development, marketing, and editorial teams. Monitor cultural and digital trends, assist with newsletters and field events, and help tailor sales materials. The role is remote-first with occasional travel for client dinners and events.

Develop and execute short-form social video strategy for major brands. Identify high-potential moments in long-form YouTube content, create creative briefs, guide editors through revisions, research trends and creators, develop original content concepts, and manage timelines, workflows, feedback, and deliverables across multiple clients.

Develop short-form video strategy by identifying strong moments in long-form YouTube content, creating creative briefs, directing editors, reviewing cuts, and optimizing content for social platforms. Research trends, creators, competitors, and audience behavior; support original content strategy; coordinate workflows in Asana; track revisions and deliverables; and progressively assume greater client and channel strategy ownership.

Leads creative technology initiatives by building AI agent pipelines, MCP servers, plugins, generative video systems, and voice agents. Designs AI architectures, prototypes emerging technologies, develops scalable creative systems, and optimizes tools and campaigns using tracing and agent analytics. Partners with clients and cross-functional teams, presents to executive stakeholders, mentors team members, and balances brand, audience, business, creative, and technical objectives.