After World War II, she first worked at an ad agency in 1946 at Bresnick & Solomont in Boston, Massachusetts. She joined Grey Advertising in 1947. She was hired by Doyle Dane Bernbach Agency on Madison Avenue in New York City in 1949 and remained until 1962 where she was copy chief. She was the copy chief for the agency's first 13 years and a mentor to copywriters like Paula Green, Julian Koenig, Mary Wells Lawrence, and George Lois. Since her daughter's birth in 1962, she worked three days a week until retirement in 1982 to start a consulting company of her own.