Chief Digital Innovation, Strategy & Content & SVP, Propelis

Marks, part of the Propelis Group, is a consumer experience agency creating engaging moments across the entire brand spectrum—from brand design and packaging to content and consumer connections. We are a collaborative global network of 1,900+ team members across 25+ studios and 20+ countries, partnering with some of the world’s most recognized brands to solve complex business challenges through design, strategy, and craft.

Hybrid in Chicago, Toronto or NY

Reporting to Marks’ President, this Propelis SVP-level job (Chief Digital Innovation, Strategy & Content Officer at Marks) plays two critical roles within the agency — primarily leading the evolution of the Marks global business through innovation and product development that's centred on AI automation; and also consequently playing an active role leading global Digital Strategy, Digital Services and the Marks Content Solutions Practice.

The successful candidate will be the hands‑on driver of Marks technology strategy which includes not just setting the direction for which tools and tech processes drive Marks but also partnering with the engineering development team at 5

Flow (Propelis’ Technology Company), as well as Adobe, AWS and other 3rd party partners who we are actively building solutions with.

• Digital Services Team, a matrixed SME team that provides strategic, creative and content production guidance to all Marks CS and Creative teams delivering a fast‑growing set of services focused on e‑COM and Social Activation to clients globally.
• Global Content Solutions, an inter‑connected team which includes 10 photo studios, 150 CGI and visualization artists and retouchers.
• Engineering & Structural Design & Global Digital Strategy

• Strategic & digitally minded agency executive, possibly having run an agency, or at a minimum has been a meaningful contributor to the leadership team.
• Must be technologically grounded and both knowledgeable and curious about how AI is going to transform the agency landscape.
• Ideally very hands‑on with the tools agencies are using today, immersed in digital innovation and has likely come from CS or Strategy or general management in the past.
• Must be interested in the space Marks occupies in the marketing ecosystem, an agency with DNA in brand design, that is expanding rapidly in scaled digital content as well as creative campaigns and branded environments/experiential marketing with some of the coolest clients on the planet!

Propelis is a portfolio of global marketing services and technology companies with a combined legacy of 150+ years, 2,000+ clients, 9,000 employees, and operations across 30 countries. Propelis provides the scale and support of a global organization while preserving the unique culture and identity of each company in its portfolio. For more information visit:

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $220,000 - $280,000 USD annually. Ultimately, in determining pay, we will consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job‑related factors.

Group benefits currently include a selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage, dental plan, vision plan, basic and supplemental life insurance, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection, short/long term disability and 401(k) Savings Plan.