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***POSITION IN CHICAGO, IL***

Join us in helping our clients in marketing for a better world.

Overview

Strategic rigor, briefing power, and client partnership

We’re seeking a deeply curious, culturally attuned strategist to lead brand and marketing strategy across the agency. This is a pivotal role that bridges insight and imagination, bringing strategic rigor, clarity, and creative innovation that fuel effective and lasting campaigns.

You’ll work across accounts to uncover what truly moves people, translate those insights into compelling strategies, and shape creative briefs that unlock bold ideas. From campaign planning to messaging frameworks, from difficult decisions to creative breakthroughs, you’ll be the strategic backbone that drives more innovative work and stronger client partnerships.

Key Responsibilities:

Research & Insight Development

• Lead the design and execution of qualitative, quantitative, and secondary research to uncover actionable insights.
• Explore not just what audiences do, but why. Identify emotional, behavioral, and cultural drivers that reveal deeper opportunities.
• Conduct competitive audits, stakeholder interviews, and trend analysis to inform strategies and challenge assumptions.
• Develop audience profiles and journey maps that bring precision and empathy to campaign planning.

Strategy Development

• Translate insights into comprehensive brand strategies, messaging frameworks, and marketing roadmaps that deliver measurable impact.
• Balance foundational brand strategy (positioning, value proposition, narrative architecture) with agile, channel-aware campaign thinking.
• Build frameworks and tools that bring structure and clarity to strategic planning across the agency.
• Collaborate with account teams to set KPIs and ensure strategies are measurable and aligned with business goals.

Creative Briefing & Oversight

• Craft briefs that spark ideas, not dictate them. Define the problem to be solved and the tension to be explored.
• Partner with creative directors to ensure the work remains strategically grounded through concept development, production, and refinement.
• Provide thoughtful, constructive feedback that challenges the work to go further while staying true to the strategic intent.

Strategic Marketing Oversight & Client Stewardship

• Serve as a strategic partner to Account Directors—meeting regularly to ensure alignment, surface opportunities, and proactively identify and address risks.
• Apply deep marketing knowledge to spot what others might miss—raising critical questions around licensing, tone, platform fit, cultural relevance, or legal risk.
• Push the work, not for the sake of pushing, but to ensure our solutions are smart, innovative, defensible, and built for long-term trust.
• Stay ahead of what’s changing across media, audience expectations, and industry trends—bringing strategic foresight into internal and client conversations.
• Join client meetings as needed to provide insight-driven counsel and model strategic leadership.

Agency Leadership & Growth

• Elevate strategic thinking across the agency by mentoring junior strategists and account teams.
• Help refine and scale internal planning processes and tools that strengthen our work across functions.
• Contribute to new business efforts by developing strategy sections of proposals and bringing clear frameworks to pitches and presentations.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in brand planning, marketing strategy, or integrated campaign development—preferably within an agency or strategic consultancy.
• Strong command of research synthesis, message strategy, and positioning development.
• Demonstrated success working cross-functionally with creative, account, and digital teams.
• Clear, persuasive communicator and critical thinker with the confidence to ask hard questions and the experience to know when to push.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects while keeping the big picture in focus.
• Cultural fluency and a firm grasp of messaging nuance across audiences and platforms.
• Bilingual or bicultural experience is a plus, especially in multicultural or community-centered campaigns.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Group Health Plan
• Dental, Life & Vision
• IRA, similar to a 401K
• Transit Benefit Program
• PTO
• Anniversary holiday
• Hybrid work environment for eligible individuals

Contact Information:

Please send a cover letter, resume and link to portfolio to careers@purplegrp.com

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***POSITION IN CHICAGO, IL***

Background

Established in 2001, Purple Group is an award-winning independent advertising, marketing, and public relations agency with consulting roots. We leverage our craft to impart a different perspective, dismantle barriers, and help our clients market their services to create a better world.

Our Culture

The Purple Group team is rooted in our mission to leverage our craft to help our clients in marketing for a better world. We value integrity, innovation, creativity, passion, and results and have developed a collaborative, culturally sensitive, work-family culture.

Job Summary

As a member of our creative services department, you would work hand-in-hand with the art director and designers to generate concepts, copy, and edit content for various accounts. 

Responsibilities:

• Write original copy, edit, and proof promotional copy for ads, social, web, collateral, broadcast, radio, and other channels.
• Guide and maintain brand consistency across channels.
• Apply brand tone, style, structure, and voice to all copy and content.
• Liaise with the Art Director and Designers to brainstorm and enrich the text with visuals to produce award-winning, results-driven creative assets. 
• Collaborate across teams to coordinate each project’s concept, copy, visuals, and touchpoints.
• Ability to collaborate and brainstorm with a Spanish copywriter to create and adapt concepts for English and Spanish-speaking audiences. 
• Work with client relations teams to orchestrate project timelines and client needs.
• Comfortably vary voice, style, and other characteristics based on the client’s needs, different industries, and various brand voices. 

Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years of proven work experience in a similar role, advertising or marketing environment, multicultural advertising expertise, and Spanish bilingual/bicultural preferred.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Exceptional proficiency in English, style, syntax, grammar, etc.  
• A portfolio showing various compelling creative ideas that work across multiple channels. 
• Strong organizational skills and project management skills.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office or G-Suite, ASANA, or other project management programs.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, juggle multiple projects, and work independently in a fast-paced office.
• Strong interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative agency environment with multi-disciplinary teams are essential.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Group Health Plan
• Dental, Life & Vision
• Transit Benefit Program
• Anniversary holiday
• Hybrid work environment for eligible individuals

Contact Information:

Please send a cover letter, resume and link to portfolio to careers@purplegrp.com

******COVER LETTER AND RESUME WITH LINK TO PORTFOLIO***
***POSITION IN CHICAGO, IL***

Background

Established in 2001, Purple Group is an award-winning independent advertising, marketing, and public relations agency with consulting roots. We leverage our craft to impart a different perspective, dismantle barriers, and help our clients market their services to create a better world.

Our Culture

The Purple Group team is rooted in our mission to leverage our craft to help our clients in marketing for a better world. We value integrity, innovation, creativity, passion, and results and have developed a collaborative, culturally sensitive, work-family culture.

Job Summary

As a member of our creative services department, you will collaborate closely with the Art Director and Designers to creatively adapt or transcreate English materials into Spanish and develop Spanish-language, culturally tailored communications, advertisements, and other communications pieces.

The preferred candidate has experience adapting financial services, education, healthcare and advertising concepts into Spanish, including a broad range of disclosures.

Responsibilities:

• Write original and transcreate/adapt copy, edit, and proof promotional copy for ads, social, web, collateral, broadcast, radio, and other channels.
• Ensure consistency in brand tone, style, structure, and voice across all Spanish-language and bilingual communications.
• Collaborate with the Art Director and Designers to integrate compelling visuals with copy, creating culturally resonant and results-driven creative assets.
• Brainstorm and concept ideas with the Total Market Creative Director (English) to effectively adapt to Spanish and/or recreate in Spanish to effectively communicate the intended message.

Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years of proven work experience in a similar role, advertising or marketing environment, Multicultural Advertising expertise, Spanish Bilingual/Bicultural required
• Excellent Spanish writing and editing skills, a keen eye for detail.
• Exceptional proficiency in Spanish, style, syntax, grammar, etc.
• A portfolio showing various compelling creative ideas that work across multiple channels.
• Strong organizational skills and project management skills.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office or G-Suite, ASANA, or other project management programs.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, juggle multiple projects, and work independently in a fast-paced office.
• Strong interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative agency environment with multi-disciplinary teams are essential.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Group Health Plan
• Dental, Life & Vision
• Transit Benefit Program
• Anniversary holiday
• Hybrid work environment for eligible individuals

Contact Information:

Please send a cover letter, resume and link to portfolio to careers@purplegrp.com

******PLEASE PROVIDE COVER LETTER AND RESUME***
***POSITION IN CHICAGO, IL***

Background

Founded in 2001, Purple Group is more than just an award-winning, independent agency specializing in advertising, marketing, and public relations with a strong consulting foundation. 

We are an impact agency driven by a clear mission: to use our craft to help clients in marketing for a better world. Our commitment and passion for making a positive impact through purposeful work are at the heart of everything we do.

We value integrity, innovation, creativity, passion, and results and have developed a collaborative, culturally sensitive, work-family culture.

Job Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented and dynamic Account Executive to join our team. In this role, you will handle multiple media-driven projects across various platforms, acting as the primary liaison between clients and internal teams. You will work closely with the Account Director to ensure the seamless execution of campaigns, maintain client satisfaction, and help grow our client accounts.

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day client relationships and communication, ensuring their needs were met and expectations were exceeded.
• Coordinate and oversee multiple advertising and media projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.
• Support the Account Director in strategy development, campaign planning, and client presentations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including creative, media, and production, to ensure campaign deliverables align with client objectives.
• Monitor and report on campaign performance, providing insights and recommendations for improvement.
• Assist in developing and maintaining strong client relationships, attending meetings, and participating in new business pitches.
• Handle administrative tasks such as preparing briefs, updating project trackers, and managing budgets.

Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or a related field.
• At least three years of experience in an account executive role, preferably within an advertising or media agency. Spanish bicultural, preferred. 
• Strong understanding of media channels, including digital, print, and broadcast.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
• Familiarity with project management tools.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) or equivalent, Google Workspace.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Group Health Plan
• Dental, Life & Vision
• IRA, similar to a 401K
• Transit Benefit Program
• PTO
• Anniversary holiday
• Hybrid work environment for eligible individuals

Contact Information:

Please send a cover letter, resume and link to portfolio to careers@purplegrp.com