Jobs at Havas Chicago

Leads the development and delivery of experiential marketing campaigns, activations, launches, and events from concept through execution. Responsibilities include shaping creative responses, presenting to clients, managing budgets and timelines, coordinating suppliers and agency partners, reviewing production details, navigating permits and logistics, and overseeing on-site delivery. The role also involves building client relationships, collaborating across PR, social, content, design, and digital teams, mentoring emerging talent, and traveling domestically across Australia.

Develop brand and communications strategies by uncovering consumer, cultural, category, and commercial insights. Challenge briefs, identify distinctive creative opportunities, build client trust, partner with account and creative teams, and lead strategic thinking. Present complex ideas clearly, support recommendations with research and analytics, contribute to effectiveness reporting, and proactively guide strategy across the agency and Havas Village.

Owns enterprise client portfolios across technical SEO, content strategy, AI search visibility, structured data, reporting, and client communication. Leads Havas Media’s AI visibility practice by developing GEO methodologies, audit frameworks, content standards, zero-click strategies, platform tooling, and reporting templates. Trains the wider team, supports new-business pitches, builds AI-assisted automations, and contributes to thought leadership on AI search.

Lead day-to-day digital operations for multiple clients, coordinate cross-channel planning with specialist teams, manage briefs and creative input, buy media directly with digital publishers, and execute performance-driven campaigns to meet sales and lead KPIs. Provide digital leadership, campaign management, and support for new business pitches.

Lead a portfolio of client accounts delivering earned-first communications campaigns, provide senior strategic counsel, grow accounts and new business, manage financials and resourcing, mentor team members, and champion agency culture and cross-functional integrated solutions.

Lead strategy, planning and implementation for a portfolio of clients with a focus on TV planning. Manage team outputs, finances, invoicing and forecasting. Coach direct reports, uphold media process excellence, anticipate client needs, drive cross-pillar commercial solutions and represent the agency externally. Support pitches and new business.

Implement and execute paid search and social campaigns across platforms (Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, TikTok). Support the Performance Manager, obtain/maintain platform certifications, manage client communications, set expectations, share knowledge, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet client performance objectives.