Job Description

Weber Shandwick is looking for a dynamic Creative Director with a mind for helping big brands and corporations navigate the modern world of media (paid, earned, and owned). This candidate is a highly conceptual strategic thinker, guiding award-winning campaigns across both corporate and consumer sectors. You will lead creative development while driving engagement within the earned, digital, and social media landscapes. This role requires a visionary leader who can seamlessly balance the nuances of corporate communication with the energetic creativity of consumer-focused projects. The Creative Director must have excellent presentation and client-facing skills along with the ability to juggle multiple projects at once. They are the consummate collaborator and comfortable working within fluid team structures, working both behind the scenes on big ideas, and managing and mentoring the work of assigned junior talent. This candidate will be responsible for developing campaigns for corporate and consumer-focused work, and contributing to new business efforts as well.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ideate and Execute earned and social first creative activations
• Generate corporate narratives for companies, for both internal and external buyers
• Work directly with C-suite to mine for stories and opportunities
• Liaise with client teams to ensure alignment with client objectives
• Collaborate and concept across integrated teams and platforms
• Foster a culture of creative innovation, excellence, and accountability
• Mentor staff, receive and provide constructive feedback
• Remain current, sharing industry best practices, trends, and techniques
  
  

Basic Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in Creative Director role within a creative agency
• Experience in big ideas, brand activations, scripts, social content, and creative writing
• Experience in digital (social, content, video, media, influencer)
• Experience delivering creative campaigns for PR (earned, owned and paid strategies)
• A love and respect for true collaboration between teams, from concept to completion
  
  

Benefits

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit
  
  

Illinois Salary range: $143,000 – $190,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Flexible hours,

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