Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Source and engage passive candidates for current and anticipated roles across digital media, commerce, creative, analytics, strategy, client leadership, and agency operations. Build talent maps and pipelines, conduct outreach, provide market intelligence, maintain candidate relationships, and partner with People and hiring leaders to refine hiring profiles. This fractional recruiter works independently and represents Code3 credibly to prospective talent.

Lead programmatic and direct media strategy, activation, optimization, and performance across multiple client accounts. Manage DSP campaigns across CTV, OLV, display, native, audio, DOOH, and emerging formats. Develop audience and buying strategies, evaluate and negotiate publisher partnerships, and translate performance data into client recommendations. Collaborate with creative, analytics, growth, and client teams; mentor junior staff; support pitches and thought leadership; and test new media technologies, automation, and AI applications.

Manage paid mobile acquisition campaigns on AppLovin for agency clients. Responsibilities include launching campaigns, optimizing CPA and ROAS performance, monitoring budgets and bids, scaling efficiently, testing creative, targeting, placements and bid strategies, analyzing results, producing weekly reports, and collaborating with creative and account teams.

Lead paid search strategy, activation, optimization, measurement, and thought leadership for B2B clients. Manage Google and Microsoft campaigns, keyword research, ad copy, bidding, budgets, QA, forecasting, and performance analysis. Connect campaign activity to lead quality, sales opportunities, pipeline, and revenue using CRM, marketing automation, and analytics data. Advise clients, develop recommendations, support pitches, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive growth.

Lead paid search strategy and activation for a portfolio of DTC clients across search platforms (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo), manage performance and shopping/PMAX campaigns, drive insights and automation (including AI), mentor direct reports, support new business pitches, and act as a strategic client advisor.

Lead strategy, launch, optimize and QA paid search and DSP campaigns across retail media (Amazon, Walmart, Target). Produce performance reports, recommend optimizations, ensure pacing to budget, and support campaign wrap-ups and QBR reporting.

Lead paid social strategy across a portfolio of consumer accounts: develop full-funnel media plans, run testing and optimizations, analyze performance to inform creative and business recommendations, partner with creative/measurement/platform teams, surface emerging opportunities, and mentor junior strategists.