Associate Vice President Creative Studio

Department: 12818 Enterprise Corporate - Brand: Creative Status: Full time Benefits Eligible: Yes Hours Per Week: 40 Schedule Details/Additional Information: No additional information. Pay Range: $99.75 - $159.60 Join Us in Elevating Brand Storytelling At Advocate Health, we're committed to helping people live well by delivering exceptional care with compassion, innovation, and expertise. We're seeking an experienced Associate Vice President, Creative Studio to lead enterprise creative strategy and help shape how our brand connects with consumers, patients, teammates, and communities. As a key creative leader, you’ll play a critical role in advancing high-impact brand storytelling, leading a multidisciplinary creative team, and ensuring innovative, digitally focused creative work is delivered across channels with excellence, consistency, and brand integrity. About This Opportunity This opportunity offers the chance to lead and evolve an in-house creative studio responsible for developing compelling creative from strategy and concept through completion. The Associate Vice President, Creative Studio will guide creative execution across print, digital, social, video, audio, experiential, and emerging platforms while partnering closely with marketing, digital, operations, legal, executive leaders, external agencies, and other strategic partners. This leader will help define and socialize the organization’s unique value proposition, brand positioning, and differentiation while ensuring creative strategies are grounded in customer insights, market trends, and changing consumer expectations. The role also includes advancing the use of AI-powered tools and Generative AI to enhance design, content creation, image/video editing, project management, brainstorming, rapid prototyping, and creative production. What You’ll Do Develop and articulate a comprehensive creative strategy aligned with organizational goals, marketing priorities, and brand strategy. Define and communicate the brand’s unique value proposition, positioning, and differentiation to target audiences. Lead creative strategies informed by customer insights, audience needs, market trends, and industry dynamics. Evaluate, implement, and optimize AI-powered tools for design, content creation, image/video editing, and project management. Develop, direct, and produce creative assets from strategy and concept through completion across print, digital, social, video, audio, experiential, and emerging platforms. Manage highly visible and complex creative projects that impact the business and span multiple teams, platforms, or stakeholder groups. Forecast resource needs, drive project schedules, prioritize work, and communicate trade-offs when timelines or deliverables are at risk. Review creative output from internal partners, agencies, production companies, and vendors to ensure high standards of creativity, innovation, quality, and brand association. Supervise and develop the content team, ensuring alignment with brand strategy, messaging, and business objectives. Manage content workflows, set clear expectations, monitor performance metrics, and provide constructive feedback to support professional growth. Leverage AI-assisted writing and editing tools to scale content creation, including briefs, scripts, social copy, and other creative materials. Oversee the use of Generative AI tools for brainstorming, rapid prototyping, and producing creative assets while maintaining quality, originality, and brand voice. Collaborate with insights teams and agencies to identify market trends, consumer behaviors, and opportunities for differentiation. Influence marketing and business leaders by translating consumer needs into creative strategies that positively impact marketing strategy and consumer experience. Lead external agency and partner relationships, providing creative direction and ensuring work aligns with project expectations and brand standards. Design and direct the work of assigned areas of responsibility. Select, coach, develop, and inspire teams by setting objectives aligned with organizational strategy. Manage talent through performance management, succession planning, development, recognition, feedback, and continuous performance improvement. Develop and/or recommend operating and capital budgets and control expenditures within approved budget objectives. Understand and adhere to the organization’s Code of Ethical Conduct and ensure supervised team members comply with applicable policies, regulations, and laws. What You’ll Bring Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, design, or related field. Minimum of 10 years of experience in creative services, an in-house agency, or advertising agency. At least 5 years of experience leading large teams, budgets, and comprehensive creative strategies. Proven ability to guide, mentor, and inspire diverse, multidisciplinary creative teams. Demonstrated ability to foster a collaborative, inclusive, innovative, and high-performing team culture. Exceptional interpersonal influence skills with the ability to build relationships and collaborate across departments and with external partners. Strong storytelling and persuasion abilities, with the ability to convey complex ideas and compelling narratives to stakeholders at all levels. Robust strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail and the conceptual ability to develop impactful campaigns. Demonstrated business acumen and deep understanding of industry trends and the competitive landscape. Deep curiosity and expertise in digital trends, social platforms, innovation, emerging technologies, and their application to creative decisions. Superior project management skills, with a track record of managing multiple projects and resources, both internal and agency, simultaneously. Proven success executing projects across all media formats and driving change across people, processes, and technology. Preferred Experience leading creative strategy within a large, complex, matrixed organization. Experience building or evolving an in-house creative studio or creative services function. Healthcare, consumer brand, agency, or enterprise marketing experience. Experience implementing AI or Generative AI tools into creative workflows. Strong executive presence with the ability to serve as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders. Physical Requirements and Working Conditions Remote position. Approved remote states: AL, AK, AR, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL (ONLY Midwest), IN, LA, KS, KY, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, WY. DISCLAIMER All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders. Our Commitment to You: Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including: Compensation Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job Incentive pay for select positions Opportunity for annual increases based on performance Benefits and more Paid Time Off programs Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs Educational Assistance Program Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview. About Advocate Health Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits. This is Transformation One shared purpose brought us together. Now, as one of the 10 largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the United States, our combined strength and stability drives us forward. Starting with You Caring for nearly 3 million people has inspired a transformation. One in which the patient’s experience guides our vision and empowers us to offer new possibilities in our communities. Reshaping Access What is access? It’s offering more sites of care than any other health system in the Midwest. But there’s a new frontier. Access is exploring the latest technologies to deliver care to patients exactly where they are and exactly when they need it Inspiring Professionals With our dynamically inclusive workforce and strong connections to the places where we live and work, we’ll touch more lives and contribute to stronger and more vibrant communities. Transforming Care We’re redefining the standard for care with world-class doctors and caregivers, innovative solutions, outstanding outcomes, and leading-edge research and clinical trials. Combined, Advocate and Aurora are recognized for clinical excellence in: Cardiovascular Care Neurosciences Gynecology Oncology Pediatrics Primary Care Neurology Geriatrics Trauma Care