Regional Creative Manager - Design Studios

Boston Consulting Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 99,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance premiums paid

Dental and vision coverage

Retirement plan contributions

Parental leave

Generous PTO

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group’s Design Studios seeks a Regional Creative Manager in Chicago to lead creative direction, advise case teams, and scope high‑value projects. You will shape the creative vision for client work, overseeing presentations, customer journeys, and videos while integrating applied AI into concepts.

You’ll build a regional network, partner with the Strategy team on go‑to‑market efforts, and report to the Senior Regional Creative Manager.

Qualifications

• 6 to 10 years of experience in a creative leadership role.
• Experience building strong client relationships, ideally in account management or creative management.
• Hands-on experience scoping creative work and understanding the end-to-end process.
• Strong practice in applying AI to creative work.
• Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Provide creative leadership and advisory to case teams, partners, and project leaders.
• Scope and manage creative work with realistic timelines and expectations.
• Advise on approach, quality, and delivery across presentations, proposals, journeys, and videos.
• Build relationships across the region and promote Design Studios’ offerings.

Skills

Creative leadership

Client relationship management

Project scoping

AI in creative work

English communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

Design Studios is BCG’s in-house creative agency: a global, multidisciplinary team of design strategists, creative leaders, and digital experts. We partner with consultants and clients to turn complex ideas into compelling visual stories, using design, technology, and media to take BCG’s work to the next level. As a Regional Creative Manager in our Chicago office, you will be the creative leader that BCG case teams, partners, and project leaders across Chicago and the Midwest turn to. You will shape the creative vision for their work, advise on the right approach, and scope projects across presentations, high-value proposals, customer journeys, and videos. You will understand the creative process from first brief to final delivery, and you will use that knowledge to raise the quality of what leaves the studio and set clear expectations for the people who ask for it. This is an advisory role, not an operations role. You will work alongside project managers, creative leads, and subject matter experts who run the day‑to‑day production, and you will bring applied AI into how the work is conceived and scoped. You will also build relationships and a network across the region, so that case teams know Design Studios and come to you early. You will report to the Senior Regional Creative Manager and partner with the regional Strategy team on go‑to‑market efforts. Your time will split roughly as follows: 50% creative leadership and advisory, 30% relationship‑building with case teams, and 20% networking and growing awareness of Design Studios.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Shaping creative direction: translating a business goal or loose brief into a clear creative concept and approach.
• Scoping creative work with realistic timelines, formats, and effort, and setting expectations with clients up front.
• Holding the line on quality: reviewing work from first draft to final delivery, giving sharp feedback, and raising the bar across formats.
• Applying AI to the creative process, from ideation and research to production, and knowing where it adds value and where it does not.
• Making fast, sound calls on your own. You trust your judgment and move quickly in a high‑expectation environment.
• Coaching designers and peers informally on creative thinking and craft, without formal line management.

Relationships and influence

• Building trusted relationships quickly with busy case teams, and showing your value from the first conversation.
• Advising senior stakeholders with confidence, in person and on screen, and presenting ideas with credibility.
• Managing client expectations, keeping feedback loops open, and making sure case teams have a great experience.
• Thinking commercially: connecting creative choices to the business outcome a team is trying to reach.

Networking and growth

• Networking with energy and curiosity: you ask about other people’s roles, learn what drives their work, and find ways to help.
• Working with the regional Strategy team to promote Design Studios’ offerings and support go‑to‑market initiatives.
• Keeping client and project details current in a CRM tool.

What Success Looks Like

• First 6 months: a firm understanding of BCG, how Design Studios works, and the value creative brings inside a consultancy.
• By 12 months: established relationships with case teams, active involvement in creative projects alongside them, and growing influence on a global team.

What You’ll Bring

• 6 to 10 years of experience in a creative leadership role at a creative or marketing agency, an in‑house creative team, or a consultancy. Agency or in‑house creative experience is a plus.
• Experience building strong client relationships, ideally in account management or creative management.
• Hands‑on experience scoping creative work and a deep understanding of the creative process from start to finish.
• A strong practice in applying AI to creative work. This is a must‑have.
• Executive presence, strong commercial judgment, and the confidence to influence direction.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in design, communications, business, marketing, or a related field.
• A portfolio is welcome, but your track record matters more. Hands‑on proficiency in design tools is not required.
• Experience working in fast‑paced, matrixed, or global environments.
• Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken.
• Ability to travel about 30% and to work in the Chicago office two days a week.

Who You’ll Work With

BCG case teams, partners, and project leaders across the Midwest, along with Design Studios project managers, creative leads, designers, and video producers around the world. You will report to the Senior Regional Creative Manager.

Additional info

We are Design Studios, an in‑house creative agency comprised of cutting‑edge professionals creating premium designs. We are a global, multidisciplinary team of design strategists, creative leaders, and digital experts. We craft powerful design stories for BCG to deliver inspiring solutions to our clients’ challenges. As part of BCG, Design Studios partners with consultants and clients to shape our brand by elevating our work through the power of design. We offer guidance and orientation through a strategic and audience‑centric approach, and apply design, technology, and media solutions to take BCG’s achievements to the next level.

As bold design leaders, we are fresh, punchy, and playful, while committed to delivering premium business excellence. We recognize how to transform complex ideas into compelling visual experiences, and how to activate new commercial opportunities at the intersection of business and design. We value innovation, co‑creation, inspiration, and the business impact that design achieves. We believe in the art of the possible and in applying creative solutions to business challenges. We believe we can advance the world by conquering its complexity through a universal human language—design.

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in‑person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development.

For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices.

We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork.

*** For US locations only ***

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.

• The base salary range for this role in Chicago is $99,000.00 - $137,000.00.

This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high‑end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.

In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

All Of Our Plans Provide Best In Class Coverage

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
• Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, and the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
• Paid sick time on an as needed basis

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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