Creative Director, Brand & Packaging

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$150K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own and champion holistic brand systems and creative strategy across identity, packaging, and experiences, leading multidisciplinary teams and client engagements from brief to execution.

  • Own brand systems across packaging, retail, digital, and campaigns.
  • Lead presentations and creative conversations with clarity and confidence.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set and champion the creative vision for brands across identity, packaging, and the broader consumer experience.
  • Translate strategy, consumer insight, culture, and business objectives into distinctive creative ideas and brand systems.
  • Think beyond individual executions to create ownable, scalable brand worlds with clear principles for how they behave.
  • Protect the core idea from concept through execution, ensuring creative integrity across every expression of the brand.
  • Know when to preserve brand equity, when to evolve it, and when to challenge conventions entirely.
  • Lead the creation of holistic brand systems designed to work across packaging, retail, shopper, digital, social, content, campaigns, and emerging channels.
  • Bring deep expertise in CPG and packaging design, including portfolio architecture, shelf impact, consumer navigation, and the realities of bringing packaging to market.
  • Guide teams in translating core brand equities into flexible visual and verbal systems
  • Connect the right disciplines and specialists from strategy and copy to photography, CGI, motion, production, and engineering, to build richer brand experiences.
  • Ensure systems are both creatively ambitious and practical enough to scale.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of progressive experience in brand and packaging design, including significant creative leadership experience.
  • A standout portfolio demonstrating brand creation, identity systems, CPG packaging, and broader brand activation across channels.
  • Deep expertise in packaging and a sophisticated understanding of how brands operate across the consumer journey.
  • Proven experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams and developing senior creative talent.
  • Strong strategic instincts and the ability to connect business, consumer, and brand objectives to creative solutions.
  • Exceptional presentation and visual storytelling skills, with experience leading senior-level client conversations.
  • Strong understanding of packaging production, photography, CGI, content creation, and the realities of bringing creative ideas to market.
  • Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite and presentation tools; curiosity and fluency with emerging creative technologies.

Benefits

  • Group benefits currently include a selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage, dental plan, vision plan, basic and supplemental life insurance, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection, short/long term disability and 401(k) Savings Plan.
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Marks

We are Marks: The Brand Creation Platform, fusing creative, commerce, content, experience, production and digital innovation into a single tech-enabled system built for what's next. Part of the Propelis group, a global brand services ecosystem designed to deliver industry-defining creativity at scale.

Founded in 2019
Chicago, Illinois, USA
955 employees (451 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $160K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
52 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.8%
Direct
42.6%
Referral
9.1%
Social
6.2%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~959
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Creative Director, Brand & Packaging

Marks · Chicago, IL · On-site