Top Creative Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

Lead and mentor a small team of copywriters while producing and directing on-brand copy across CRM, digital, social, video, broadcast, and in-office channels. Develop big ideas and messaging frameworks, champion Aspen Dental's voice, integrate AI tools to scale content, collaborate with cross-functional partners, present concepts to senior leaders, and uphold creative standards and quality across campaigns.

Moderate and respond to comments across client social channels, write engaging brand content, maintain safe online communities, identify and escalate trends or issues, and adapt tone to different brands and audiences. The role requires outdoor sports knowledge, strong English writing skills, social media moderation experience, flexibility for evening, overnight, and weekend shifts, reliable internet, and remote-work capability.

Leads paid social creative strategy across mid-to-large accounts, overseeing testing agendas, creative roadmaps, performance analysis, client relationships, and strategy presentations. Manages and mentors strategists and designers, connects creative decisions to business outcomes, and champions AI-enabled workflows for concepting, copywriting, and creative variation development. Requires deep expertise across Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, structured testing, client leadership, and performance-driven creative strategy.

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.

Lead product-focused copywriting across product interfaces, email, help content, and ecommerce merchandising. Link messaging to business metrics, build scalable creative operations and workflows, optimize SEO and conversions, and adapt copy for white-labeled partner integrations while collaborating with UX, product, sales, and customer success teams.

Own ElevenCreative’s agency and platform partnerships from 0 to 1. Identify strategic partners, build senior relationships, define commercial models, enable adoption, develop integrations and joint go-to-market programs, and convert partnerships into measurable product usage and revenue. Collaborate with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Engineering while monitoring AI creative trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics.

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.

Generate and optimize AI video ads using emerging generative models. Develop prompting workflows and libraries, benchmark new models, improve consistency and lip sync, apply video-editing judgment, and create performance-focused advertising content in collaboration with the product team.

Lead development of AI-native creative production systems: turn customer insights and performance data into testable creative hypotheses, collaborate across design, growth and product to launch, iterate and scale ad concepts, evaluate and optimize ad performance beyond basic metrics, and continuously explore new formats and narratives.

Lead the creative learning system for growth: centralize cross-channel insights, scale production (studio, UGC, whitelisting), build testing frameworks and reporting, translate ad learnings into site, funnel, and product recommendations, and align Growth, Brand, and Product teams to institutionalize winning creative.

Lead AI-native creative production by turning customer insights and performance data into testable creative hypotheses. Use AI to generate, validate, and produce ad concepts; collaborate with Design, UA, Growth and Product to launch, iterate and scale creatives; analyze performance beyond CTR/CAC and continuously explore new formats and narratives.

Senior individual-contributor responsible for leading high-complexity creative strategy for major clients and pitches. Translate ambiguous business problems into messaging frameworks, testing roadmaps, and strategic narratives. Use AI, creative analytics, audience research, and platform tools to drive creative effectiveness, partner with cross-functional teams, and influence senior stakeholders. Mentor other strategists informally and contribute to thought leadership, templates, and case studies to improve creative strategy quality and measurable learning.

Lead creative strategy for complex client scopes: translate business goals and audience insights into briefs, testing roadmaps, and actionable messaging. Manage and develop creative strategists, provide quality control, and integrate strategy with Creative Studio, Media, Analytics, and Partnerships. Use platform and performance data to guide testing and optimization, present to clients, and drive process improvements and AI-enabled creative approaches.

The Creative Designer will design functional and visually appealing web product screens, work from brand guides, and maintain creative thinking while adapting across projects.

The intern will assist in SEO strategies, social media content creation, graphic design for marketing, and email marketing campaigns while analyzing data.

Lead and evolve Givzey / Version2.ai brand through visual storytelling, design systems, and cross-channel creative. Collaborate with product, marketing, sales, and customer success to deliver campaigns, video, web, and sales enablement that drive donor engagement and ensure brand consistency.

Design and create labels, packaging, marketing collateral, and ads; manage proofs and vendor submissions; maintain labeling review/approval records; provide creative support for company programs and events; ensure regulatory compliance and quality assurance; collaborate across teams and manage multiple projects to deadlines.

Lead full lifecycle implementations of Salesforce Data Cloud: design data models, integrations, segmentation, and activation. Act as primary technical expert for offshore teams, troubleshoot, build POCs, and enable personalized marketing using Salesforce platforms and data engineering best practices. Provide mentorship and stay current with Salesforce releases and AI/cloud trends.

Manage print and web production workflows for omnichannel marketing, approve final media, collaborate with vendors, drive process improvements, and recruit/train a creative production team to meet deadlines and maintain brand standards.

Develop and own performance-driven creative strategy for eCommerce brands: analyze campaign data, build testing roadmaps, create hooks/scripts/messaging, brief visual creators, review assets, provide performance-focused feedback, and collaborate with media buyers and clients to iterate and drive commercial results.

Leads a creative pod of strategists, designers, editors, and ACDs while owning hiring, development, retention, capacity, and performance management. Oversees creative strategy, client presentations, delivery quality, escalations, and high-priority hands-on execution across concepting, design, production, and post-production. Drives creative product innovation, AI adoption, QA, client retention, service expansion, and measurable business outcomes while partnering with R&D and platform teams.

Provides autonomous, in-person clinical care for children using applied behavior analysis. Responsibilities include conducting functional behavior and skills assessments, developing individualized treatment plans, supervising and mentoring RBTs, analyzing progress data, updating behavior intervention protocols, ensuring medically necessary documentation, coaching caregivers, and maintaining ethical BACB standards. Administrative teams handle staffing, credentialing, authorizations, billing, claims, and client acquisition.

Supports media analytics and data operations by preparing attribution and marketing mix modeling data, producing recurring insights reports, maintaining taxonomy standards, and quality-assuring deliverables. The role identifies data anomalies and pipeline issues, supports visualization and client reporting, collaborates with media and analytics teams, documents processes, and improves workflows. It requires quantitative education, analytics experience, SQL exposure, digital media platform knowledge, and strong data quality skills.