Group Creative Director

We’re looking for a Group Creative Director to lead one of the most creative, culturally relevant brands in the world and one of our most important clients.  The ideal candidate us looking to do the best work of their lives by creating work that matters. Work that matters in culture. Work that matter to our clients. Work that matters to us.

In the Group Creative Director role, you’ll lead a team of talented creatives to create award winning work that earns attention. You’ll do it with your internet breaking earned first, inherently social, ideas that grab national headlines. 

You are a leader. A nurturer of teams and their work. A natural, strategic decision maker. You make ideas better and bring them to life with an attention to craft in production. You can own the room and sell the work with the kind of passion that great ideas deserve.

This role is ideally located in Chicago, but for the right candidate working from other locations will be considered.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Job #1 is to bring the freshest, most inspired, most unexpected thinking that solves a client’s problem.

• Collaborate with other creatives, strategists, media, digital and account teams to ensure our work is always relevant, strategically sound and headline worthy.
• Communicate your ideas to the clients with clarity, strategic insight, and passion.
• Hunt for and share out with the rest of the team what’s breaking in culture BEFORE it breaks in culture.
• Proactive thinking. You’re always bringing ideas because you know not every opportunity lives within the brief.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ years’ creative experience in advertising or social. Knowledge of earned media is a plus.
• A creative portfolio that’s filled with smart thinking. 
• Internet fluency. You know the ins and outs of social media, speak the language of the internet, have gone down YouTube rabbit holes for multiple hours in a row, have uploaded multiple TikTok videos and have explored without fear the inner depths of Reddit.
• You’re a genuinely good person who brings energy every single day to your work and to the agency. 

ABOUT GOLIN

Golin is a Cannes Lion winning, 2020 & 2021 Earned Media Agency of the Year.

We are a progressive earned media and social idea agency designed to reach the profoundly diverse market. Inclusion is a core value for Golin and we are focused on establishing a culture that is intentionally inclusive, potently diverse and uncompromisingly equitable

Our Chicago office has a broad range of clients and we’re increasingly focused on marketing to the youth market, a profoundly diverse and differentiated audience with unique interests, behaviors, and needs. Understanding this audience – and how to reach them – is key.

We tend to Go All In, in everything we do. We’re especially committed to going all in for our people. We challenge our employees to be Courageously Happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. LifeTime offers unlimited time off, enhanced family care, generous health and wellness benefits, the ability to work remotely, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies. Our culture is built around happy people who are the best at what we do! 

Salary range: $150,000 - $260,000

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Golin is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose). Therefore, if hired, candidates must present proof of vaccination. Candidates may request an accommodation due to disability, religious belief, or exception required under applicable law.