Associate Creative Director

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$109K/yr – $145K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own and oversee bold, cross-channel ideas from concept through finished craft, partnering with strategy, account, and analytics to ensure impact across platforms.

  • Own the full creative process from blank page to finished craft
  • Lead mentorship and set craft standards with junior creatives
  • Deliver ideas that balance culture, strategy, and measurable results

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Make the work: You'll be hands-on, concepting and building attention-grabbing ideas from blank page to finished craft. You'll work alongside strategy, account, media relations, and analytics to make sure your ideas feed algorithms and transcend platforms.
  • Sharpen the idea, balancing craft and strategy: Whether your instrument is a headline or a layout, you'll help guard the voice and visual identity of every brand you touch. Stay playful, but always purposeful. Your work won't just entertain, it'll deliver results.
  • Bring others up with you: You'll mentor junior creatives and help set the bar on craft — not by managing from a distance, but by being in the work next to them.
  • 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. These inputs will shape the ideas you develop and bring to teams and clients.
  • Help sell it: You'll present your thinking with conviction — internally, and increasingly in the room with clients.

Requirements

  • Experience: 5–8 years in art direction, design, or copywriting — especially if you've worked on earned, digital, and social-first campaigns, or for culturally relevant brands.

Preferred

  • Bonus points for illustration, After Effects, photography, retouching, filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML

Benefits

  • Why You'll Love It Here (Other than the Snacks)
  • 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.
  • You'll get real runway. This is a step-up role, and we treat it like one — with the mentorship, the reps, and the visibility to grow into what's next.
Adelphi Group logo

Adelphi Group

The Adelphi provides a wide range of strategic support services and consulting for global pharmaceutical clients. Adelphi is dedicated to the healthcare sector, providing services across strategic marketing, marketing and business intelligence, real-world observational research and disease-specific programmes, health and economic outcomes, market access, pricing and reimbursement, value insight, multi-channel health communications, scientific services, and strategic product development consultancy. Headquarters are located in Manchester, UK with offices in Europe and the US. Adelphi employs over 700 people worldwide.

Founded in 1986
Bollington, England, GBR
233 employees (19 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
59.9%
Direct
26.4%
Referral
9.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~233

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
178