Creative Director, Brand & Packaging

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$145K/yr – $155K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and champion the brand's creative vision, translating strategy into distinctive brand systems while leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver scalable experiences across packaging, retail, digital, and campaigns.

  • Owns brand vision and system development across multiple channels
  • Leads multidisciplinary teams and senior client conversations
  • Shapes briefs with Strategy and Client Services to identify opportunities beyond the brief

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

$145K/yr – $155K/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