Jobs at Havas Chicago

Develops and manages paid social campaigns across multiple platforms, aligns strategies with marketing objectives, segments audiences, manages budgets, monitors performance, conducts A/B tests, and prepares campaign reports. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and copywriting skills, current knowledge of social media trends, paid media experience, and advanced English proficiency. It is a hybrid, permanent position supporting global brands from Havas’ Lima Center of Excellence.

Supports consumer and brand PR campaigns through media and influencer outreach, pitching, media materials, events, product launches, influencer programs, trend monitoring, campaign reporting, client communication, and project coordination. The role contributes to culturally relevant ideas and earned-first campaigns for travel, food, lifestyle, entertainment, and consumer brands.

Designs, builds, and optimizes Azure and Microsoft Fabric data platforms, including lakehouses, warehouses, dimensional models, ETL/ELT pipelines, semantic models, and AI-ready data products. Develops RAG and LLM solutions with embeddings, retrieval, evaluation, and responsible AI controls. Establishes governance, security, data quality, observability, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code practices while optimizing performance and cost. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, mentoring, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Owns the reliability, security, performance, availability, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management of enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, tuning, patching, upgrades, high availability, disaster recovery, security administration, automation, incident leadership, migrations, BI workload support, documentation, and mentoring. The role partners with developers and data engineers on schema design, query optimization, releases, and modernization initiatives including Azure SQL adoption.

Lead strategy, execution, optimisation and reporting of performance-driven digital media campaigns (search, social, display). Manage budgets, clients, vendors and a small team; deliver insights, drive growth opportunities, and contribute to cross-division projects and agency thought leadership.

Lead global media planning for Havas Media Network pitches, coordinating full-funnel, multi-market responses from written submissions through client presentations. Develop integrated brand, performance, commerce, and retail media strategies tied to business outcomes. Own planning quality control, global frameworks, transformation roadmaps, local-market connectivity, innovation, capability development, and partner relationships. Collaborate across strategy, activation, creative, analytics, data, e-commerce, and AI teams while identifying opportunities for organic client growth.

Lead social-first strategy across client work, new business, and agency initiatives. Develop audience- and culture-led insights, strategic recommendations, creative briefs, platform and creator strategies, trend analysis, success frameworks, and KPIs. Collaborate across client, creative, data, and insight teams; manage strategic workstreams, support client growth, contribute to thought leadership, and coach junior team members.

Lead social, creator, and integrated communications strategy for major client relationships. Develop culture-led campaigns, consumer journeys, messaging frameworks, briefs, and success metrics. Advise senior clients, lead workshops and pitches, collaborate across creative and specialist teams, mentor strategists, support new business, and strengthen agency capabilities in social, influencer, culture, and AI-enabled strategy.

Develop bold, culturally resonant designs and integrated campaign concepts for major brands. Create polished work across online and offline formats, present ideas, collaborate with creative and account teams, and contribute throughout agency production workflows. The role requires strong layout, typography, storytelling, and Adobe Creative Suite skills, with motion design and After Effects experience beneficial. Designers will also guide peers, challenge briefs constructively, and help deliver award-quality creative work.

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.

Manage digital media campaigns across platforms, coordinating media planning, campaign execution, client communication, advertiser and media partner relationships, performance monitoring, optimization, reporting, and administrative workflows. The role also supports pitches and tenders, manages multiple deadlines, and contributes strategic ideas to improve campaign performance and processes.

Supports the digital design team by creating content for social, digital, print, events, email, presentations, and campaigns. Assists with still and video shoot concepts, develops templates, illustrations, infographics, and maintains a marketing asset library. Collaborates with design, strategy, and accounts teams while contributing creative ideas and staying current with design trends. The full-time internship lasts four months, with potential extension and advancement.

Plans and executes integrated media campaigns for BBC properties across digital, social, print, radio, outdoor, and other channels. Responsibilities include audience research, media planning, campaign coordination, budget monitoring, performance analysis, billing reconciliation, client and partner relationship management, quality control, and mentoring junior team members. The role requires strong communication, attention to detail, media knowledge, project coordination, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment.

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.

Develop digital strategies for existing clients and new business opportunities. Lead discovery workshops, interviews, roadmaps, strategic recommendations, business cases, presentations, and proposals. Translate business and customer objectives into viable solutions spanning people, processes, experience design, data, AI, and technology. Build senior stakeholder relationships, identify growth opportunities, support consultative selling, and collaborate with agency, Havas network, and technical teams.

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.

Supports localization, transcreation, and creative production projects across markets and channels. Coordinates internal teams and external suppliers, maintains client relationships, tracks timelines and project progress, prepares status updates and documentation, and helps improve processes. The role focuses on French-speaking client service and delivering marketing campaigns on time and to quality standards within an international agency environment.

Coordinates employee lifecycle activities including contracts, onboarding, offboarding, records management, employee support, reporting, compliance, training, reviews, and People projects. Partners with Payroll, IT, and People leaders to deliver accurate and welcoming employee experiences while maintaining confidential records and supporting People operations across Havas ANZ.

Execute CRO experiments, including A/B, multivariate, and split tests, while implementing and auditing Google Tag Manager tracking. Analyze user behavior, heatmaps, analytics data, and conversion bottlenecks; configure GA4 events and data layers; troubleshoot martech integrations; collaborate with design and development teams; and deliver experimentation insights and performance reports to clients and stakeholders.

Leads visual conceptualization and execution for integrated advertising campaigns across digital, print, social, and experiential media. Translates client briefs into impactful visual solutions, oversees designers, collaborates with copywriters and strategists, presents concepts to clients, manages multiple projects, and contributes to new business pitches. Requires strong design expertise, agency experience, portfolio quality, and proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite.