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Marketing Creative

Shape brand stories that stop people mid-scroll.

$157,620 Median wage+8% (Faster than average)Best Ikigai types for this career: Creative Enthusiast

What a Marketing Creative does

Day-to-day responsibilities and the work itself.

  • Direct creative teams to develop integrated campaigns across digital, print, and broadcast channels while managing timelines and budgets.
  • Analyze market research and competitive data to identify audience insights and refine positioning strategies for product launches.
  • Approve final creative assets, messaging frameworks, and brand guidelines to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and brand voice.
  • Present campaign concepts, performance metrics, and ROI analysis to executive leadership and client stakeholders for approval and feedback.
  • Collaborate with product, sales, and analytics teams to translate business objectives into creative briefs and measurable marketing outcomes.

Best Ikigai types for this career

Personality profiles whose strengths align with Marketing Creative.

Pillar profile for this career

How Marketing Creative draws on the four Ikigai pillars.

Passion
95
Mission
55
Vocation
70
Profession
50

Salary detail

Median wage

$157,620

USD/yr

Range (10th–90th percentile)

$79,890$239,200+

10th–90th percentile

10-year growth

+8%

Faster than average

US employment (2023)

415,100

SOC 11-2021

Source: BLS OEWS May 2023; EP 2023–2033

Key skills

Campaign strategyCreative directionBudget managementStakeholder communicationMarket analysis

Typical education

Bachelor's degree

A day in the life

My morning begins with a strong coffee and a scan of overnight social media performance—our campaign hit 2.3M impressions, which means the creative landed. By 9 AM, I'm in a creative review session, pushing back on a designer's color palette and demanding it reflect the moodboard we locked last week. The afternoon fractures into smaller pieces: a budget reallocation call with finance, a stakeholder presentation where I defend our pivot toward video-first content, a brief with the copywriting team on tone for Q4. There's a moment around 4 PM where I step back and look at the campaign timeline on my wall—six weeks to launch—and feel the familiar weight of knowing whether this lands or flops depends on decisions we make today. I leave around 6, my brain still churning through whether we should test that headline variation.

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