Jobs at Havas Chicago

Develops and presents e-commerce strategies for clients, executes and optimizes campaigns, measures performance, manages marketplace and retail partnerships, supports new business pitches, and contributes to local e-commerce capabilities through best practices and case studies.

Supports Havas Group’s e-commerce consulting capabilities through marketplace strategy, advertising, audits, retail insights, and direct-to-consumer and drive-to-retail experiences. Builds partnerships with local and global e-commerce players, analyzes performance data, develops marketing approaches, and advises clients on marketplace setup. Requires marketplace advertising experience, quick commerce exposure, strong communication, numerical comfort, and marketplace auditing skills.

Develops and manages social media strategies, content calendars, organic and paid campaigns, community management guidance, reporting, and competitive monitoring for assigned clients. Collaborates with media, analytics, creative, design, and project management teams to support broader marketing initiatives, manage timelines and budgets, and track social trends and performance.

Plan, execute, monitor, and optimize paid media campaigns across Google and Meta, including search, display, video, branding, awareness, and lead generation campaigns. Analyze CTR, CPA, ROAS, and conversion rates; conduct A/B testing; collaborate with creative teams; produce performance reports; and stay current on digital advertising trends and platform updates.

Create and edit blogs, articles, website content, and other digital materials aligned with brand objectives. Conduct topic, competitor, and keyword research; produce SEO-friendly content; optimize headings, metadata, internal links, and readability. Coordinate with SEO, design, account, and internal teams, while managing content calendars, timelines, multiple assignments, proofreading, revisions, and final delivery.

Creates blogs, articles, website content, and other digital materials aligned with brand voice and business goals. Conducts topic, competitor, keyword, and trend research; optimizes content for SEO; proofreads and edits drafts; repurposes content; and coordinates with SEO, design, account, and internal teams. Maintains content calendars and project trackers, manages multiple assignments, follows up with stakeholders, and ensures high-quality, timely delivery.

Create and edit high-volume social, motion graphics, interview, podcast, documentary, and other video content. Transform raw footage into polished productions using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and AI tools. Develop compelling visual narratives, animations, transitions, and bespoke graphics while managing multiple projects and deadlines. Collaborate with creative, writing, and marketing teams, contribute video concepts and content strategy, and stay current with production and social media trends.

Design, deploy, and manage scalable AWS/Azure infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation). Build CI/CD pipelines, containerize apps with Docker, run workloads on Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), implement monitoring/AIOps, enforce DevSecOps, script automation (Python/Bash), optimize costs (FinOps), collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and productionize lead scoring, churn, and media-mix models; write SQL and Python pipelines; use GCP/BigQuery; translate model outputs into actionable marketing recommendations and work with cross-functional teams to embed analytics into campaigns.

Manage client social accounts with the social, copy, and design teams; create engaging content; execute daily account tasks; support branding, positioning and marketing implementation; propose service and positioning improvements; monitor performance and trends to drive engagement.

Create and edit SEO-optimized website and blog content for client brands, refurbish existing content, collaborate with SEO team, analyze content metrics, and meet tight deadlines.

Lead development of brand, digital and social strategies by uncovering audience, cultural and media insights. Define channels, content approaches, influencer use, write creative briefs, brief teams/agencies, run qualitative and quantitative research, monitor digital trends, and collaborate across Strategy, Creative, Analytics, Production, PM and Accounts. Participate in client workshops and presentations.

Lead end-to-end 360° digital and social media campaigns, act as senior client partner, develop social-first strategies, guide creative/content/media teams, monitor performance and optimize, manage account profitability and team development.

Entry-level copywriter who partners with art directors to develop and execute creative concepts from ideation through finished product. Produces tone and style aligned with client marketing objectives, conducts research, follows agency production and review processes, meets deadlines and budgets, adapts copy across media, and collaborates with teams to support brand personality and campaign goals.

Design and iterate end-to-end UX: define product flows, wireframes, prototypes, and user journeys. Conduct and document user research and testing, collaborate with PMs, engineers, and visual designers, capture edge cases and states, and ensure UX aligns with product roadmap.

Lead UI/UX design work across web and mobile, create wireframes and interface designs, direct usability testing, provide creative QA and mentorship, run client presentations, and deliver responsive/PWA-ready design assets and specifications.