Morningstar
Associate Visual Designer
Morningstar, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
About the Role:
Morningstar is looking for an Associate Visual designer to help develop collateral across a variety of mediums including print, digital and live events to join our Morningstar Retirement business, which provides investment advisory and management solutions to the broader retirement market. In this role, you will create compelling materials that help differentiate and promote our unique service offerings to B2B and B2C audiences. Associate visual designers at Morningstar collaborate with writers and content strategists, marketers, product managers, sales and business owners to develop experiences that express the Morningstar brand.
This position is based in our Chicago office. We follow a hybrid policy of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote work.
You'll be great at:Making informed design decisions around typography, space, color, and iconography while utilizing the Morningstar Design System and expressing the Morningstar brand.Partnering with lead/senior designers in creating collateral for projects including digital web experiences, email campaigns, social media, printed collateral, events and conference exhibiting, and other branded communications.Making complex information understandable and formulate design concepts that are engaging, attractive, and user-friendly.Apply problem-solving methods for creating new marketing/product content while following brand guidelines.You'll also do things like:
Collaborate with product owners, engineers, and UX designers on your squad to make product decisions.Clearly articulate design decisions and share your process when appropriate.Participate in critiques, workshops, design studios, and other design activities.Demonstrate design skills, especially concerning typography, information hierarchy, and data visualizationBe curious, resourceful, and have a desire to contribute to solving challenging information and communication design problems.Have excellent interpersonal and analytical skills; be self-directed, comfortable working independently, and able to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in graphic design or equivalent experience/training in the graphic arts.1-2 years of experience in design and knowledge in the following programs: Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Figma, and Mac OS X .Nice to have
Knowledge of HTML and CSSHow to apply:
Please include a portfolio of work you're most proud of, so you can tell stories about your experience and impact. We're interested in your designs and want to understand how you work with a team to solve problems.002_MstarAssocLLC Morningstar Investment Management LLC Legal Entity
If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
Morningstar is looking for an Associate Visual designer to help develop collateral across a variety of mediums including print, digital and live events to join our Morningstar Retirement business, which provides investment advisory and management solutions to the broader retirement market. In this role, you will create compelling materials that help differentiate and promote our unique service offerings to B2B and B2C audiences. Associate visual designers at Morningstar collaborate with writers and content strategists, marketers, product managers, sales and business owners to develop experiences that express the Morningstar brand.
This position is based in our Chicago office. We follow a hybrid policy of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote work.
You'll be great at:Making informed design decisions around typography, space, color, and iconography while utilizing the Morningstar Design System and expressing the Morningstar brand.Partnering with lead/senior designers in creating collateral for projects including digital web experiences, email campaigns, social media, printed collateral, events and conference exhibiting, and other branded communications.Making complex information understandable and formulate design concepts that are engaging, attractive, and user-friendly.Apply problem-solving methods for creating new marketing/product content while following brand guidelines.You'll also do things like:
Collaborate with product owners, engineers, and UX designers on your squad to make product decisions.Clearly articulate design decisions and share your process when appropriate.Participate in critiques, workshops, design studios, and other design activities.Demonstrate design skills, especially concerning typography, information hierarchy, and data visualizationBe curious, resourceful, and have a desire to contribute to solving challenging information and communication design problems.Have excellent interpersonal and analytical skills; be self-directed, comfortable working independently, and able to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in graphic design or equivalent experience/training in the graphic arts.1-2 years of experience in design and knowledge in the following programs: Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Figma, and Mac OS X .Nice to have
Knowledge of HTML and CSSHow to apply:
Please include a portfolio of work you're most proud of, so you can tell stories about your experience and impact. We're interested in your designs and want to understand how you work with a team to solve problems.002_MstarAssocLLC Morningstar Investment Management LLC Legal Entity
If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.