Creative Director, Copy

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$129K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Own and guide major creative initiatives across integrated campaigns, mentoring talent, and steering cross-functional teams to deliver strategically grounded, brand-aligned work.

  • Own concept development, storytelling, and visual direction.
  • Collaborate across strategy, account, production, and content teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead major creative initiatives and integrated campaigns, ensuring ideas are strategically grounded, creatively strong, and aligned to client priorities.
  • Provide creative direction across brand advocacy, campaign, content, digital, social, video, event, newsletter, email, and always-on communications work.
  • Partner with strategy, account, production, project management, content, and creative teams to develop work that is clear, compelling, and executable.
  • Guide concept development, campaign storytelling, messaging, visual direction, and presentation narratives.
  • Manage and mentor creative talent while staying close to the work and providing actionable feedback throughout the development process.
  • Present creative work and rationale to internal stakeholders and clients with clarity, confidence, and strategic perspective.
  • Ensure creative output is consistent with the broader creative vision, brand standards, and quality expectations.
  • Help teams navigate ambiguity, feedback, timelines, and stakeholder needs while maintaining creative momentum.

Requirements

  • 10-12 years total experience with Senior creative leadership experience within an agency, in-house agency, or large brand environment.
  • Copy, narrative, or content-led creative background preferred
  • Experience mentoring or managing creative talent in an agency, in-house agency, or brand environment.
  • Experience working across multiple channels, including digital, social, video, events, email, newsletters, and brand communications.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating integrated campaign concepting, brand storytelling, strategic thinking, and polished execution.
  • Experience leading creative teams and partnering cross-functionally across strategy, account, production, content, and project management.
  • Ability to translate business objectives into creative platforms, campaign ideas, and channel-right executions.
  • Strong presentation, communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.
  • Experience with advocacy, brand communications, digital, social, video, events, email, or always-on content preferred.
  • Comfortable working in a confidential, matrixed client environment with shifting priorities and senior stakeholder input.

Benefits

  • The best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

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$129K/yr – $165K/yr

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Creative Director, Copy

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V · Chicago, IL · Hybrid