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Creative Jobs in Naperville, IL (NOW HIRING)

A media buyer who can't talk creative is only half the picture, and so is a creative who can't run the account. We're looking for both, at a high level, in one person. This is a senior seat. If you ...

CREATIVE DIRECTOR, PORTFOLIO TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA LOCATION: TORONTO / CHICAGO (HYBRID) COMPANY OVERVIEW The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It's a team of ...

CREATIVE DIRECTOR, PORTFOLIO TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA LOCATION: TORONTO / CHICAGO (HYBRID) COMPANY OVERVIEW The Kitchen brings together a range of disciplines and capabilities. It's a team of ...

The Creative Execution Lead is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of creative production and integrated campaigns intomarket. This is a true player ...

The Creative Execution Lead is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of creative production and integrated campaigns into market . This is a true player ...

The Creative Execution Lead is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of creative production and integrated campaigns into market. This is a true player ...

The Senior Director, Creative partners closely with strategy, brand, and creative leadership to ensure our visual systems are insight-led, scalable, and emotionally resonant. WHAT YOU'LL DO ...

What creative should we make next, and why? If you've ever watched a gaming ad and immediately thought "I know exactly how I'd make this better" , you'll probably enjoy this role. What You'll Own ...

Creative Director, Brand & Content Smartly is looking for a Creative Director to join our Brand & Content team and help shape how our brand comes to life across campaigns, content, events, digital ...

Creative Director, Brand & Content Smartly is looking for a Creative Director to join our Brand & Content team and help shape how our brand comes to life across campaigns, content, events, digital ...

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How much do creative jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 14, 2026, the average yearly pay for creative in Naperville, IL is $104,437.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $71,400.00 and $146,300.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Creative vs Graphic Designer?

AspectCreativeGraphic Designer
Required CredentialsPortfolio, sometimes a degree in arts or related fieldDegree or certification in graphic design or visual arts
Work EnvironmentAdvertising agencies, media companies, marketing teamsDesign studios, marketing departments, freelance
Industry UsageBroader creative roles including advertising, branding, content creationPrimarily visual communication through graphics
Search & ComparisonBroader, encompassing various creative rolesMore specific to visual design tasks

While both Creative and Graphic Designer roles involve visual work, Creative is a broader term that includes various creative functions like branding, advertising, and content creation. Graphic Designers focus specifically on visual communication through graphic elements. Understanding these differences helps in choosing the right career path or job search focus.

What are creative jobs?

Creative jobs are jobs that require artistic talent or a creative mindset, and they usually refer to jobs in the advertising, marketing, graphic design, apparel manufacturing, literary, and film industries. The specific qualifications for creative jobs vary by field and position. For example, if you want to work in the art department at an ad agency, you need to have strong visual skills, a talent for graphic or fine art, and excellent drawing and drafting skills. Meanwhile, as a copywriter, you need to have strong written communication skills. Your duties and responsibilities also vary depending on the type of creative work you do.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a creative, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Creative, you need a strong portfolio showcasing artistic ability, innovative thinking, and proficiency in design or content creation, often supported by a degree in a related field. Familiarity with industry-standard tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, or other digital media platforms is typically required. Standout soft skills include adaptability, collaboration, and effective communication to convey ideas and work with diverse teams or clients. These skills and qualities are essential to producing compelling work that meets project goals and adapts to evolving creative trends.

What is a creative?

Creatives are professionals involved in generating original ideas and producing content across various fields, such as advertising, marketing, design, writing, and the arts. Their main role is to develop visually appealing, engaging, or thought-provoking materials that help communicate messages, promote brands, or entertain audiences. Creatives can include graphic designers, copywriters, art directors, illustrators, and more, often working in teams or agencies to bring concepts to life.

How does a creative professional typically collaborate with other departments during a project?

Creative professionals often work closely with teams such as marketing, product management, and development to ensure their concepts align with overall business goals. Collaboration usually involves brainstorming sessions, regular feedback meetings, and iterative revisions based on input from key stakeholders. This cross-functional teamwork helps to refine ideas, maintain brand consistency, and deliver effective campaigns or products. Being open to feedback and adaptable to changes are important qualities for success in this collaborative environment.

What are the most commonly searched types of Creative jobs in Naperville, IL?

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Infographic showing various Creative job openings in Naperville, IL as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 78% Full Time, and 22% Part Time. Highlights an 100% In-person job distribution, with an average salary of $104,437 per year, or $50.2 per hour.

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B2B Media Buyer - Remote US or Canada Full-time $120K-$150K OTE 9am-6pm ET

Read this part first

This seat runs paid acquisition for our program: high-level B2B media on Meta, and the creative going into it. You run the ads AND you build the angles, hooks, and copy that make them work. Those aren't separate jobs here. A media buyer who can't talk creative is only half the picture, and so is a creative who can't run the account. We're looking for both, at a high level, in one person.

This is a senior seat. If you've been running serious B2B spend and building the creative behind it, we'd love to talk.

Who we are

Limitless is a coaching program for marketing agency owners. We teach agency founders how to scale.

#1 fastest-growing coaching program for marketing agencies. 225+ agencies joined us in the last 12 months. Built by two founders who've actually done what our students are trying to do.

Gill Valerio scaled his first agency from zero to $500K a month and exited in a multi-million dollar deal in three and a half years. Dave Pancham has run his agency for seven years, has been at multi-seven-figures for over five years steady, and his business is fully run by his team. Two founders, two paths, same destination.

What you'll own

Media buying - your primary. You run all paid media on Meta for our program: targeting, testing structure, pacing, every optimization decision. This is high-level B2B lead gen, not e-com, and you've done it before at real scale. You own the numbers. You know what changed, why it changed, and what you're doing about it before anyone has to ask. You diagnose at the concept level, is this angle dead or is it the hook, is the offer wrong or the persona too broad, because you're also the one who built the creative.

Creative strategy and copy. You develop the concepts, write the hooks, and script the funnel: ads, VSL, book-a-call page. Our funnel is VSL to book-a-call, and that's a hard creative problem on purpose. A B2B VSL has to hold a skeptical, sophisticated buyer through education before the offer shows up. The foundation under all of it is direct-response copywriting. If the message isn't dialed in, nothing else lands, no format, no targeting, no spend saves a weak message. You write the message that makes a cold agency owner stop and say yes.

Our market is a niche: agency owners. Every persona is an agency owner who needs what we teach, but for different reasons. One's stuck under a revenue ceiling. One's drowning in delivery and can't sell. One's profitable but has no system. Same buyer, different pain, each a different angle. The job isn't just writing ads, it's reading where the market's head is at, how aware they are of the problem and the solution, and meeting them there. Sometimes that means selling a better mechanism, sometimes it means selling an opportunity they didn't know existed. You research what makes them say yes and turn it into angles nobody's run yet. You won't edit or design, we have a team for that. You bring the angle, the copy, and the brief.

Organic, part of the same acquisition engine. Instagram organic and YouTube organic aren't a side project here, they're part of our client acquisition ecosystem, the same goal as paid, a different channel. Once you're in the creative, turning our coaching calls and winning angles into organic content and YouTube scripts is the same muscle pointed at another way to bring clients in. You'll help own that strategy and scripting too.

Coaching. You'll run a weekly group coaching call with our students, showing them what's working in our ads right now and helping them sharpen their own B2B strategy, and you'll be the one who steps in with feedback when they have questions along the way. You're not doing support and you're not on client calls. The reason you can do this is that you run this stuff yourself, you're the expert in the room.

Who you'll work with

You report to Dave and Gill, the founders. You'll work closely with both of us, this isn't a hand-off-and-disappear seat. You work alongside our editors and designers, who handle production. You don't manage clients and you don't sit in client calls. Your job is the work and the room.

Requirements

What you've done - both halves, both at a high level

Media buying:

  • You've run B2B paid media at a high level, national campaigns, six figures a month in spend, hands-on, in the account making the calls.
  • B2B lead gen specifically: agencies, coaching/info, or high-ticket services sold to businesses. This one really matters to us, B2B behaves nothing like e-com, and we need someone who already knows the difference.
  • Deep on Meta. You read an account and know what the data is telling you without anyone translating it.

Creative:

  • Direct-response copywriting is one of your strongest skills. You can write the message that makes a cold, skeptical B2B buyer pay attention, and prove it with copy that converted. VSLs, ads, book-a-call pages.
  • A track record of original concepts and angles, not just variations of someone else's idea. You can name the work and what it produced.
  • A genuine point of view on creative. You study the space, you know what's working right now and why, you have opinions about it, and you can brief it so the team builds what you pictured.

Both:

  • You can explain why an ad works to someone less experienced without drowning them in jargon. That's the coaching test.
  • Portfolio or work samples, we'd love to see the work.

Logistics

  • Able to work 9am-6pm ET.
  • Located in the US or Canada. Required, you work directly with our team.

Preferred (not required)

  • Google Ads and YouTube Ads experience. We run Meta first, our students ask about Google, and we don't have an expert in-house. If you've done it, that counts.
  • AI built into your workflow.
  • Experience with organic content or growing an audience of your own.

Benefits

What you'll get

Comp: $70k base. OTE is $120k. Base plus performance. Full medical, dental, and vision. Paid time off. Fully remote. Direct access to the founders who've built real agencies and lived the exact path our students are on.

Benefits listed apply to US employees. Canada hires join as contractors paid in USD

Shortlisted candidates do a paid trial project: take one of our offers and build the creative spine for it, a batch of distinct angles each speaking to a different reason an agency owner would need us, a VSL hook and opening, and a walkthrough of how you'd structure and read the account to know if you were right. We pay for your time, and it's the closest thing to the actual job you'll see in any interview.

This team is going somewhere. The only question is whether you're on it. If you're the one, you'll know it reading this. Apply, and let's find out.