Marketing, Advertising and PR Jobs in Lombard, IL

Who We Are:

We are Lever, a marketing agency that stands at the intersection of experience and innovation. Lever is a place where the acumen of industry experts harmonizes with the latest advancements in advertising technology. Our focus? Spotlighting our clients, the true protagonists of our success narratives.

Our team is a dynamic collective of individuals, united in their pursuit of excellence and innovation. We foster a culture of transparency and adaptability, building partnerships grounded in trust and mutual growth. At Lever, we are more than just an agency; we are a community of marketing professionals who are curious, driven, and committed to delivering results that surpass expectations.

As a potential member of the Lever team, you would be joining an organization that values great work, strong integrity, and high morale. We are growth-oriented, constantly seeking avenues to not only enhance our clients’ journeys, but also to nurture careers and foster lasting relationships.

Join us at Lever, where we are reshaping the marketing landscape, one success story at a time.

How We Define Success in This Role:

The Account Director serves as the strategic and operational leader of a dedicated client pod. This individual is ultimately responsible for the health, performance, and growth of the clients assigned to their pod.

Success in this role is defined by the ability to lead client relationships, guide strategic direction, and ensure that the pod consistently delivers high-quality marketing performance. The Account Director ensures that campaign strategy, media execution, and client communication remain aligned with each client’s business objectives.

A successful Account Director demonstrates strong leadership, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of digital marketing. They are able to guide both clients and internal teams toward effective marketing solutions while maintaining accountability for results.

The Account Director works closely with the Media Director to ensure that marketing strategies translate into effective campaign execution across platforms. They are also responsible for mentoring and managing the client-facing and operational members of their pod.

This role reports to the Director of Client Success and works closely with the Media Director assigned to the pod.

Primary Ownership Areas:

• Client relationship health
• Strategic direction of accounts within the pod
• Revenue growth and retention within the pod
• Escalation management
• Performance accountability for pod clients

What You’ll Do:

Lead Client Strategy and Relationship Management

Serve as the senior strategic advisor for clients within your pod, ensuring that Lever’s marketing initiatives align with each client’s broader business goals.

Develop and guide long-term marketing strategies that incorporate multiple digital channels, audience insights, and evolving platform capabilities.

Build strong, trusted relationships with client stakeholders through thoughtful communication, strategic guidance, and proactive problem solving.

Identify opportunities to expand client engagements by introducing new strategies, marketing channels, and performance initiatives that support business growth.

Serve as the primary escalation point for client concerns, ensuring that challenges are addressed quickly and effectively.

Lead and Manage a Cross-Functional Pod Team

Oversee the overall performance and coordination of the pod supporting your client portfolio.

Manage Account Strategists and Project Managers within the pod, providing guidance, mentorship, and leadership.

Ensure that all pod members remain aligned around client goals, campaign priorities, and deliverables.

Collaborate closely with the Media Director to align client strategy with media planning and execution.

Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the pod.

Oversee Strategic Marketing Planning

Guide the development of marketing strategies that incorporate paid media channels such as paid search, paid social, programmatic media, and emerging advertising platforms.

Ensure that marketing strategies reflect a strong understanding of audience behavior, competitive positioning, and industry trends.

Collaborate with Media Directors to ensure campaign plans are aligned with broader strategic goals.

Support the development of testing frameworks, measurement approaches, and optimization strategies that improve marketing performance.

Ensure Operational Excellence Across Accounts

Work with the Project Manager to ensure deliverables remain organized, timelines are maintained, and client commitments are met.

Review reporting insights and campaign performance to ensure that strategies remain aligned with client objectives.

Ensure that the pod operates efficiently while maintaining high standards of quality and accountability.

Maintain visibility into client budgets, campaign performance trends, and strategic opportunities across the pod’s accounts.

Drive Client Growth and Long-Term Partnerships

Identify opportunities to expand client relationships through additional marketing services, new channel initiatives, and strategic recommendations.

Work with agency leadership to develop growth strategies for key accounts.

Ensure that Lever continues to deliver strategic value that strengthens long-term client partnerships.

What You’ll Bring:

A strategic mindset combined with strong leadership and communication skills. You are comfortable guiding client strategy while managing internal teams responsible for execution.

5+ years of experience in digital marketing, marketing strategy, account management, and/or client services within a marketing agency or performance-focused environment.

Strong understanding of integrated digital marketing channels including paid search, paid social, programmatic media, and performance marketing strategies.

Experience managing complex client relationships and guiding marketing strategies across multiple channels.

Demonstrated ability to lead teams, mentor employees, and coordinate cross-functional work.

Strong analytical thinking and comfort interpreting marketing performance data to guide strategic decisions.

Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex marketing strategies to clients and internal stakeholders.

Highly organized and capable of managing multiple client priorities simultaneously.

Benefits Shortlist:

• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• 13 paid holidays
• Generous vacation and personal time-off package
• Remote work flexibility
• Company donation match — you donate, we donate
• Time off for community service

Are you passionate about connecting people with the right opportunities? Join our innovative marketing firm as an Entry Level Recruiter and be a part of raising the bar in consumer engagement. We collaborate with local and national brands to develop relationship-based marketing campaigns, and we're expanding our reach nationwide.

As our firm experiences rapid growth, we're seeking a motivated Entry Level Recruiter to join our dynamic team. Recruiters are fundamental to our success and play a core role in our organization. If you have 0-5 years of experience, enjoy engaging with people, and take pride in your work, we invite you to continue reading!

Responsibilities:

• Conduct inbound and outbound calls to connect with prospective candidates.
• Review resumes of potential applicants to identify individuals suited for various positions.
• Continuously research our client brands to ensure candidates understand job duties.
• Manage recruiting schedules for multiple accounts, ensuring efficient coordination.
• Generate and provide updated reports with detailed candidate breakdowns.
• Book Zoom/in-person interviews, streamlining the hiring process.
• Work with ATS applications to effectively track candidate progress.
• Place strategic advertisements on various job boards to attract top talent.

Requirements:

• Possess an outgoing and positive attitude that fosters strong relationships.
• Must be proficient in web applications and comfortable with technology.
• Exhibit exceptional customer service skills to provide a personalized candidate experience.
• Ability to self-manage and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Must have a proactive, go-getter mentality and thrive in collaborative settings.
• Must thrive in a fast-paced high-pressure environment
• Proficient in handling and prioritizing multiple tasks, ensuring timely completion.

Benefits:

• Pay range starting at $650 per week + bonuses based on performance
• Hybrid Schedule after completing two weeks of training in office
• Exciting travel opportunities, both domestically and internationally.
• Build a vast professional network across the country, enhancing your skills and connections.
• Unlimited growth potential within our organization for top performers.

Additional Information:

• Workday begins promptly at 7:30 am, ensuring an early start to the day for maximum productivity.
• Some weekend work is required, to accommodate business needs and deliver exceptional results.
• 90-day probationary period, providing an opportunity to showcase your skills and demonstrate your commitment to the team.

At our firm, we offer room for professional growth and advancement. Whether you're looking to increase your earning potential or pursue a management role, we only promote from within. Initial interviews will be conducted immediately.

Full-Time | Base Salary + Performance Incentives | Fast-Growth Environment

We are seeking a motivated, early-career professional who wants to build a career in Talent Acquisition, Recruiting Operations, or Human Resources.

This is not a traditional staffing role.

We partner with growing organizations across multiple industries to manage the top-of-funnel recruitment process — sourcing, qualifying, and booking candidates for first-round interviews. Once interviews are scheduled, our clients take the process from there.

This role is ideal for a recent college graduate or early-career professional who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys performance metrics, and is motivated by measurable results.

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What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Making 500–1,000 outbound calls per day

• Screening candidates for alignment and role fit

• Booking qualified candidates for first-round interviews

• Managing candidate pipelines and tracking performance metrics

• Optimizing call scripts and improving booking ratios

• Working closely with leadership to improve funnel performance

This is a metrics-driven role. Success is measured by activity, conversion rates, and booking outcomes.

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Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (Business, Communications, HR, Psychology, or related field)

• Competitive, goal-oriented, and coachable

• Comfortable handling high call volume

• Strong communicator with professional phone presence

• Motivated by base pay + performance incentives

• Interested in building a long-term career in Talent Acquisition or HR

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What You’ll Gain

• Real experience in high-volume recruiting strategy

• Training in talent pipeline management and performance analytics

• Direct exposure to client-facing recruitment operations

• A clear performance-based growth track

• Base salary + structured performance incentives

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This Role Is NOT For You If:

• You dislike outbound calling

• You struggle with activity goals

• You prefer slow-paced environments

• You want a purely administrative HR role

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Why This Role Is Different

Most recruiting jobs focus on full-cycle placement.

We specialize in optimizing the top of the recruitment funnel — where most companies struggle.

You’ll learn how hiring truly works at scale.

If you’re competitive, analytical, and looking to build a serious foundation in Talent Acquisition, apply.

Job description

Strategic Marketing Services is a national award-winning marketing company providing data-driven, multi-channel marketing for the automotive industry. Strategic Marketing is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Since 1995, we have had a passion to create overwhelming client success for the automotive industry. As a preferred vendor for several major Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), including General Motors and Stellantis, we have established a reputation for delivering exceptional results. Our comprehensive suite of marketing services includes digital advertising, data analytics, customer engagement strategies, and more, allowing us to support automotive businesses in reaching their full potential. Our employees describe our organization as fun, exciting and fast-paced. 

Does the following describe you?

• You are looking for a career which has great income potential
• You desire to work in a team environment with a “We before Me” attitude.
• You possess strong social and selling skills.
• You like being in a positive environment
• You are driven to make your customers successful.
• You want to join a high-performance team.

If you answered “YES!” to all of these questions and satisfy the following job requirements, Strategic Marketing is very interested in speaking with you about our opening to cultivate and strengthen our Scalability, Performance, and Success culture.

Role: Territory Sales Representative

You are responsible for selling proven marketing concepts to automotive clients. Individuals who want to advance their careers and be a part of a winning team with a clear path of earning potential need to apply. We provide a full training program and support system to teach our marketing concepts in full. No need to understand automotive or data driven marketing. We will coach and counsel the right candidates. The re-occuring revenue sales model in place and used by our team members allows for exponential growth opportunities and has allowed us to create a culture of success. We are looking for individuals who want to WIN and be successful. Our reputation demands it.

We are looking for long-term commitments from individuals who are like-minded and possess our company’s 6 core values:

• Integrity
• We before Me
• Excellence
• Client Success Driven
• Level 10 Attitude
• Always be Winning

Strategic Marketing has an award winning culture who has been awarded one of the "Best Places to Work" in Kentucky and a “Top Places to Work”. When you visit our company, you will understand these are awards we take very seriously.

Compensation includes an aggressive salary plus commission bonuses and attractive benefits. Earn between $80,000 and $100,000 1st year. Each additional year income growth allows for more aggressive compensation to another level.  We will only be offering 2 individuals the opportunity to join our team. You must meet the criteria, be a self-starter, great attitude, and have a willingness to learn so you can make a difference for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Working within your territory with new and existing customer opportunities by presenting to a captive audience. WE only work with automotive dealers and manufacturers. Niche Market where we are the leaders.
• Meet prospective clients and present our data-inspired marketing solutions
• Ability to create relationships with our clients to enhance the re-occuring revenue model to enhance income.
• Understand and learn the company's products and services to promote the company’s strengths and solutions to solve client’s problems.
• Work within the team culture and use existing and new information as it is developed to share in front of clients and potential clients to further your sales growth.
• Execute a communication strategy in your territory using the several tools provided.
• Maintain reporting structure on all accounts

Requirements

• 1 – 3 years Inside and/or Outside sales experience
• A self-starter with the ability to prioritize and manage time effectively
• Willingness to Learn
• Ability to identify problems and provide solutions to clients
• Excellent presentation capabilities (online and in-person)
• Positive Attitude
• Ability to build strong customer relationships
• Proven Track record of over-achievement and closing skills
• Strong listening skills
• Light travel to the assigned market is required.

Please visit to learn about our internal culture, leadership, and much more.