Marketing Manager - Creative for Small Business Banking

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$124K/yr – $146K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive creative marketing strategy and end‑to‑end asset delivery for multi‑channel campaigns.

  • Own diverse creative strategy and lead designers, copywriters, and agencies.
  • Must-have: Eight+ years in marketing strategy with proven results.
  • Standout: Strong cross‑functional influence, budget trade‑offs, and data‑driven insights.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own creative marketing strategy for assigned products and initiatives, translating business objectives, customer insights, and performance data into integrated creative approaches.
  • Lead development of advertising and marketing assets across display, social, video, direct mail, email , and other assigned channels while acting as the key point of contact for our internal and external agencies .
  • Serve as primary creative lead and decision‑maker for designers, copywriters, and agency partners; provide strategic direction, feedback, and final approval.
  • Manage multiple concurrent campaigns, balancing priorities, timelines, complexity, and risk to ensure on‑time, on‑brand delivery.
  • Review and approve creative assets to ensure brand consistency, clear messaging, and strong value proposition articulation.
  • Analyze campaign performance to generate insights and optimize creative strategy; communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Leverage market research, customer insights, and performance learnings to inform creative direction; lead research across traditional and AI‑enabled channels.
  • Provide input into creative budget planning; manage assigned budgets and make trade‑offs to maximize impact and efficiency.
  • Act as a strategic marketing partner to cross‑functional stakeholders, influencing decisions through expertise and data‑backed recommendations.
  • Stay current on marketing trends, creative best practices, and emerging technologies relevant to small business audiences.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
  • Eight or more years of related experience in marketing and marketing strategy with proven ability to deliver results

Nice to Have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Design, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Eight to ten years of progressive experience in marketing, advertising, or creative strategy leading complex initiatives.
  • Strong knowledge of advertising, marketing, and creative development principles.
  • Strong analytical, project management, and organizational skills.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
  • Proven ability to work under broad direction and lead in a matrixed environment.
  • Experience using AI tools alongside traditional tools for creative, copy, strategy, imagery, and research is a plus.
  • MBA or equivalent markers of high achievement preferred.

Benefits

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Basic term and optional term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
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At U.S. Bank, we help millions of clients achieve their goals with a balance of best-in-class technology and human expertise tailored to individual needs. As the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, we’ve built a reputation for strength and stability across a diversified mix of businesses, including commercial and institutional banking, business banking, payments, wealth management and consumer banking. We’ve been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute and the most admired superregional bank by Fortune. In addition to thousands of branches serving consumers, U.S. Bank offers a complete suite of products, services and strategic partnerships for business. Within our Wealth, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking division, we serve more than half a million clients across the country and around the world, ranging from wealthy individuals and families to the largest corporations, including 90% of Fortune 1000 companies.We’re also consistently recognized as a great place to work. We’re shaping our company culture with intention, focused on creating a workplace where it’s safe to speak up, share ideas and try new things. We’re proud to be recognized as a “Best for Vets” employer by the Military Times and included on Fair360’s (formerly DiversityInc.) list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity. U.S. Bank, NA. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.

Founded in 1968
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
81K employees (1,757 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
65% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
27.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.7M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.5%
Direct
74.2%
Referral
4%
Social
0.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~80.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,168 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
21 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
15

Funding

Total Funding
$991M
Last Raise
$55M
Post IPO Debt, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $55M
  • Aug 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $936M

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