Sr Director, Performance Creative

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$195K/yr – $230K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own AI powered creative production with a hybrid internal/external model, turning brand into performance through scalable testing, guardrails, and a rapid feedback loop.

  • Own the AI-powered creative production and testing loop spanning concept to launch across multiple brand identities.
  • Bridge brand positioning to conversion optimized creative with a scalable internal/external model and AI-native partners.
  • Lead the testing architecture and living hooks library to accelerate velocity without sacrificing quality.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and Lead the AI-Powered Creative Model
  • This is the defining responsibility of the role. AI is not a tool to dabble in here, it is the production infrastructure.
  • Architect a hybrid creative organization: internal creative strategists and brand-literate designers working in concert with a curated bench of external AI-native designers and production resources
  • Select, implement, and continuously evolve the AI toolset, covering generative design, video production, copy variation, and asset adaptation
  • Use AI as a design tool, a production accelerator, and a testing multiplier, enabling the team to produce at a volume and iteration speed that would be impossible through traditional production alone
  • Build the guardrails and quality standards that keep AI output on-brand and performance-ready across all channels and brand identities
  • Stay ahead of the AI creative landscape and bring a sharp, informed point of view to the C-suite on where the category is headed and what to adopt next
  • Own the Creative-to-Performance Feedback Loop
  • Partner with paid media leads and commercial leadership to translate performance signals (CTR, CVR, hook rate, cost per appointment) into creative direction
  • Build a closed-loop system from brief to launch to iteration, ensuring creative learnings compound across campaigns and channels

Requirements

  • 10+ years in performance creative, creative strategy, or performance marketing with clear accountability for measurable outcomes
  • 5+ years in a senior leadership role with direct reports across creative, strategy, or production functions
  • Demonstrated experience operating at or near the executive level, including presenting to and influencing C-suite stakeholders
  • Deep hands-on experience with paid digital channels, particularly paid social and paid search, and creative best practices across each
  • Demonstrated ability to build creative testing frameworks that generate actionable signal at scale
  • Fluency with AI creative tools (generative image, video, copy) and a concrete point of view on deploying them at production scale
  • Experience building or managing a hybrid internal/external creative model, including AI-native vendors or freelancers
  • Comfort reading and interpreting performance data; you find the story in the numbers and use it to drive creative and business decisions
  • Proven ability to influence resource allocation, organizational design, and technology investment decisions
  • 10+ years in performance creative, creative strategy, or performance marketing with clear accountability for measurable outcomes

Preferred

  • Background in retail, retail healthcare, or another appointment- or location-based business model
  • Experience managing creative simultaneously across multiple distinct brand identities and geo-targeted markets
  • Track record building or scaling an in-house performance creative function from an early stage
  • Experience managing agency and production vendor relationships for high-production formats such as CTV or digital video
  • Proven ability to use AI as both a design tool and a production accelerator, with examples of measurable output improvement

Benefits

  • a generous benefits package that includes paid time off, health, dental, vision, and 401(k) savings plan with match.
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When we launched Aspen Dental, we set out to break down the barriers that made it hard for patients to keep up with their dental health — affordability, transparency, and access. We knew the key to better patient care started with the provider, so we changed how the dental business worked. We built new relationships, expertise, and tools to help dentists run their businesses more effectively and better care for their patients. Fast forward, and over 25 years later, we’ve launched more than 1000 Aspen Dental locations—by doing so, we are proud to say we have changed access to dental care nationwide. But there’s more work to do. Healthier, happier smiles were just our beginning.We come together to launch TAG – The Aspen Group, and we are officially expanding beyond dental to embrace a new vision. As we transform Aspen Dental, Chapter, ClearChoice, WellNow, and Lovet into one family, we’re setting out to achieve one simple goal together: to bring better healthcare to more people - because we believe in a future where health and wellness is accessible for all. While our vision now is broader, how we achieve it remains the same. The best care starts with the provider, and TAG exists to power them so they can meet patients where they are, no matter their specialty, and deliver better care. Because we know that at the end of the day, better healthcare is simple — empower the provider and their teams and the rest will follow.United as one group, we’re not just breaking down barriers, today we’re breaking through. We’re challenging the status quo. Together we can prove healthcare can be better for both providers and patients. Together we can bring better healthcare to more people.

Founded in 1998
Chicago, Illinois, USA
934 employees (112 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
50% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.1%
Direct
44.5%
Referral
12.1%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~934

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
83 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

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