VP, Change Catalyst

Job Description:

As VP, Change Catalyst, you will be the integrator who connects creative ingenuity, media performance, and the marketing supply chain into one seamless growth engine. Sitting at the intersection of data, creative, media, AI, and ad technology, you will design solutions that anticipate challenges, remove friction, and shape the future of how media and creativity work together. This is not a traditional operational role — it’s a strategic, solutions-oriented seat built to ensure that ideas, platforms, and processes come together to drive growth. You will report directly to the Head of Innovation and Performance Strategy. 

Hybrid role based in Chicago, with in-office presence required on Thursdays (flexible up to 3 days/week).

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Integration & Solutioning: Architect and operationalize connections between creative development, media activation, data intelligence, and automation platforms — ensuring tools, workflows, and people align into one system. 
• Catalyze Growth: Identify and solve systemic challenges across the creative and media supply chain to unlock scalable, repeatable value. 
• AI & Automation Solutioning: Partner with specialist teams to design how AI can be applied across creative and media workflows, ensuring strategies translate into working solutions that drive speed, personalization, and performance. 
• Tech & Platform Expertise: Provide integration guidance on core platforms including Workfront and Adobe Creative/Experience Cloud, alongside production and creative automation tools such as Celtra, Flashtalking, Frame.io, and Stensul. 
• DCO Platforms: Understand and advise on the role of dynamic creative optimization (e.g., Clinch, Flashtalking) to ensure personalization strategies are effectively enabled in market. 
• Strategic Problem Solving: Diagnose organizational, process, and client pain points, designing future-proofed solutions that elevate both efficiency and effectiveness. 
• Client Partnership: Act as a senior advisor to clients, demonstrating how integrated media, creative, and technology solutions translate into stronger performance and growth. 
• Internal Enablement: Inspire and align cross-functional teams around new ways of working, embedding agile, AI-enabled, and data-driven practices across creative and media workflows. 
• Results Orientation: Establish success metrics that tie transformation initiatives directly to business impact — stronger creative, smarter media, higher performance. 

Who You Are

• A systems thinker who sees creative, media, and data as one fluid ecosystem. 
• A solutions architect who thrives on integrating platforms, workflows, and teams into unified operating models. 
• A change agent with proven success leading transformation across marketing, media, or technology organizations. 
• A systems thinker who sees creative, media, and data as one fluid ecosystem. 
• A solutions architect who thrives on integrating platforms, workflows, and teams into unified operating models. 
• A change agent with proven success leading transformation across marketing, media, or technology organizations. 
• A bridge builder who can translate between creative, technical, and business stakeholders with clarity and conviction. 
• A trusted partner with strong client-facing advisory skills and executive presence. 
• 12+ years of experience in marketing, media, advertising technology, or digital transformation. 
• Deep understanding of the creative supply chain, media ecosystems, and marketing automation. 
• Understanding of creative development process across marketing channels from broadcast to digital  
• Proven success enabling cross-disciplinary teams to bring transformation strategies to life. 
• Familiarity with AI-driven marketing tools, enterprise ad tech platforms, and workflow orchestration. 
• Strong platform fluency with Workfront, Adobe Creative/Experience Cloud, Celtra, Clinch, Flashtalking, Frame.io, Stensul, and AEM. 
• Strong executive presence with experience in senior client-facing advisory roles. 
• A trusted partner with strong client-facing advisory skills and executive presence. 
• 12+ years of experience in marketing, media, advertising technology, or digital transformation. 
• Deep understanding of the creative supply chain, media ecosystems, and marketing automation. 
• Understanding of creative development process across marketing channels from broadcast to digital  
• Proven success enabling cross-disciplinary teams to bring transformation strategies to life. 
• Familiarity with AI-driven marketing tools, enterprise ad tech platforms, and workflow orchestration. 
• Strong platform fluency with Workfront, Adobe Creative/Experience Cloud, Celtra, Clinch, Flashtalking, Frame.io, Stensul, and AEM. 
• Strong executive presence with experience in senior client-facing advisory roles. 

Qualifications

Additional Information

The annual salary range for this position is $136,000-$219,650. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,

• Life Insurance,

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,

• 401k,

• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and

• Paid Parental Leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

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Location:

Chicago

Brand:

Dentsu Creative

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

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