Creative Director

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$143K/yr – $190K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive high-impact creative ideation and culture-aware campaigns, own brand voice, and mentor the creative team to deliver earned-first work across platforms.

  • Own ideation and cross-discipline collaboration to feed algorithms and multi-platform content.
  • Must-have: 10 years copywriting experience with earned/digital campaigns.
  • Standout: culture-sensing, meme/newsroom awareness, and leadership of a creative team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create magic : You’ll drive ideation of attention-grabbing ideas. You’ll work alongside various disciplines from strategy to account to media relations and analytics (to name a few) to ensure your ideas feed algorithms and transcend platforms.
  • Own the voice, balancing art and strategy : Be a guardian of the tone of voice of the brand and for each campaign you work on. Stay playful, but always purposeful. Your visuals and ideas won’t just entertain, they’ll deliver results.
  • Be a builder : You’ll mentor and manage folks on our creative team—helping shape our next generation of creative talent imbuing them with a keen eye for storytelling and a focus on craft.
  • Be the pulse of culture : Research platforms, subcultures, emerging media, and niche communities to unearth untapped opportunities. You need to know before anyone else what Gens Alpha and Z are doing on social channels, why brands are jumping all over a meme, what conversations are capturing the attention of journalists (and why) and who is poised to become the next big thing in the cultural conversation.

Requirements

  • Experience: 10 years copywriting experience, especially if you’ve worked on earned campaigns, digital campaigns and social-first campaigns or for culturally relevant brands.
  • You’ll of course need to work quickly and accurately within all aspects of presentation software (PowerPoint).

Preferred

  • Bonus points for filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML.
  • A sense of humor.

Benefits

  • You’ll work with some of the best creatives in the business, a team fueled by bold ideas, cultural insights, and enough caffeine to power a small city.
  • You’ll have the freedom to experiment, fail forward, and redefine what “earned-first creativity” means.
  • You’ll create work that matters to brands, to audiences, and to culture at large.
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Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001
New York, NY, US
4.4K employees (1,170 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
74.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
5.6%
Social
11.7%
Paid
0.4%

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Current headcount: ~4.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
882 (20% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
7 years
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