Senior Creative Manager - Marketing Agency

Margle Media sits at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and performance. We’re a fast-moving digital agency helping brands grow through strategy, content, creative, social, influencer, and performance marketing.

We’re looking for a Senior Creative Manager to serve as the connection point between strategy and creative execution — making sure creative projects are properly planned, resourced, coordinated, and delivered while supporting our internal creative team and external creative partners.

This is a role for someone who understands marketing, creative production, and agency workflows, and knows how to turn strategic direction into high-quality creative work.

You’ll lead creative development and execution across client accounts:

• Collaborate with the Director of Accounts to understand project goals, messaging, audiences, and creative objectives
• Participate in creative planning, concept development, and review discussions
• Apply audience research, strategic insights, campaign objectives, and performance learnings to creative recommendations and execution decisions
• Review creative work through both a creative and marketing lens, and provide thoughtful feedback throughout the process

You’ll plan resources and manage creative partners:

• Assess creative project requirements and determine the right internal and external resources
• Help allocate creative budgets across designers, editors, freelancers, and production needs
• Source, onboard, and manage freelance designers, editors, photographers, videographers, and creative specialists
• Build and maintain a reliable freelancer network, plus a best practice guide for briefing, file delivery, revisions, and communication

You’ll support the creative team and stay close to execution:

• Serve as the day‑to‑day lead for the creative team, including a videographer, video editor, and content creator
• Help prioritize work, remove roadblocks, and support quality and consistency across projects
• Participate in client creative planning, presentations, and reviews, building confidence through your expertise
• Jump into hands‑on creative support when needed — light design, content updates, and asset prep using Adobe Creative Suite
• Actively integrate AI tools (generative image, video, copy, and workflow automation) to improve speed, quality, and efficiency

• 5+ years in a creative, agency, marketing, content, production, or creative operations role
• Experience managing a team as well as freelance creative talent and vendors
• Strong understanding of marketing, branding, content, and creative production workflows
• Experience in client-facing conversations and presentations
• Working proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and related tools)
• Hands‑on proficiency with AI creative tools and a demonstrated ability to build them into production workflows
• Deep understanding of how creative performs across digital platforms (Meta, Tik Tok, You Tube, CTV, and display)
• Excellent communication, organization, and relationship‑management skills, with strong creative judgment and attention to detail

You’re marketing-minded and creatively curious, comfortable operating between strategy and execution. You can connect research, strategy, audience insights, and performance data to creative decisions — and you’re just as confident leading a client conversation as you are jumping into a project to make the work better.

You’re organized without being process‑heavy, resourceful, and solutions‑oriented. You understand not just what needs to be created, but why it matters.

• Full‑time, Exempt
• Based in Milwaukee, WI. Hybrid flexibility as well as remote work potential.
• Salary Range - $95,000 - $105,000 annually.

Benefits include flexible PTO, medical insurance eligibility after 60 days, and an HSA with employer contribution (plus flexible work arrangements when possible)

If this sounds like a fit, we’d love to hear from you.

Margle Media is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the hiring process.