Vice President Group Director, Creative, AI Solutions

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$160K/yr – $229K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead the Human + AI creative agenda, shaping craft, offerings, and client impact across projects.

  • Set and defend AI-enabled creative standards and quality controls for all output.
  • Translate AI capabilities into repeatable studio offerings and efficient workflows with sustained quality.
  • Lead client pitches and partnerships with Strategy to shape revenue-generating AI-driven creative services.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set and defend the creative standard across all AI-enabled work, ensuring craft, storytelling, and concept strength remain paramount.
  • Translate emerging AI capabilities into creative opportunities and repeatable studio offerings that improve efficiency without compromising quality.
  • Lead pitches and client presentations: sell the studio, articulate AI-driven creative ideas, and build belief in new ways of working.
  • Partner with Strategy and New Business to surface opportunities, scope work, and shape commercial offerings that drive revenue.
  • Evangelize the studio internally and externally. Run workshops, demos, case studies, and thought leadership to drive adoption and client demand.
  • Mentor, hire, and develop multidisciplinary creative teams (designers, directors, writers, motion, etc.) to operate in Human + AI workflows.
  • Collaborate tightly with creative and production leadership to align on creative ambition with scalable solutions.
  • Create frameworks, templates, and best practices for prompt design, iterative creative reviews, and quality control across AI-assisted deliverables.
  • Establish ethical guardrails, quality checks, and IP-aware approaches for responsible use of generative tools.
  • Measure creative and commercial impact: define success metrics, capture learnings, and iterate on studio offerings.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in senior creative leadership (Creative Director, Head of Creative) ideally inside agencies, studios, or innovation labs.
  • Proven track record of award-winning, strategically strong work across digital, social, video, and experiential formats.
  • Hands-on familiarity with generative AI and related tools across image, video, audio, copy, and multimodal workflows. And the ability to translate capabilities into practice.
  • Experience leading client-facing pitches and business development, with strong presentation and persuasion skills.
  • Demonstrated success mentoring and growing creative teams in fast-moving environments.
  • Experience creating or implementing new creative workflows, tooling, or studio practices at scale.
  • Strong strategic thinking, storytelling, and visual/creative judgment.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid experimentation, and a bias for learning and iteration.
  • Senior client-facing skills and willingness to travel as required.

Preferred

  • Background designing Human + AI collaboration models, prompt architectures, or creative tooling.
  • Experience building training programs, internal evangelism, or community-of-practice models.
  • Familiarity with legal/IP/ethical issues around generative content and vendor evaluation.

Benefits

  • Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Digitas North America

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Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

Founded in 1980
Boston, Massachusetts, US
2.8K employees (892 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
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