Senior Visual/UI Designer

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Northern Trust is focused on identifying and designing digital experiences that enhance user interactions through a human-centered process. The Senior Visual/UI Designer on the Creative Team in Corporate Marketing is responsible for designing best-in-class digital experiences to support public digital marketing channels including web, social media, and mobile. The role will be instrumental in ensuring we push our practice to create truly differentiating experiences reflective of Northern Trust's capabilities and business objectives as well as user needs and behaviors. Uses expertise to provide guidance to others as a project manager or consultant. Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines. This role will encompass 70% Visual Design and 30% User Interface (UI) Design.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Demonstrates strong concepting and creative problem-solving skills for digital experiences and delivers "best in class" creative solutions in the digital and online space.
• Uses analytical and data-driven approach to survey and interpret the competitive landscape to ensure the creation of differentiated experiences during moments that matter along user journeys, bringing forth leading edge thinking and processes to our digital design work to push our practice in new directions.
• Creates visual designs within a multidisciplinary team to support Corporate Marketing efforts focusing on visitor goals in public touchpoints such as NorthernTrust.com, social media and marketing campaigns. Executes UI design for new AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) components to enhance the user experience for our public digital properties.
• Works with an open and optimistic culture of experimentation, intellectual curiosity and rapid prototyping using agile methodology for large projects.
• Leads digital initiatives and translates business strategies into design opportunities.
• Shares work in-progress, solicits critical feedback from business partners, and provides productive critique.
• Mentors and advises junior designers and directs their work on digital projects and initiatives.
• Lead creative input sessions, client presentations, status updates and other meetings needed for projects.
• Apply and extend the Northern Trust digital design system appropriately to create innovative functional solutions that meet business and project needs.
• Provide quality assurance of creative deliverables.
• Collaborates with UX lead to enable a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. Ensure the work created aligns with brand guidelines while simultaneously exploring new graphic standards

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of proven experience
• Solid proficiency with front end UI technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, etc.) and current technologies. Expertise of industry-standard software, including Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, In-Vision, and bring new technology to the table. Experience working with components in AEM - Adobe Experience Manager

Knowledge/Skills

• Excellent communication skills, easily adaptable, exceptionally organized, excellent presentation, problem solving, storytelling and design skills with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus
• Experience in translating UI/design to development; writing stories and requirements for developers and ensuring smooth-handoff between teams.
• Knowledge of AfterEffects and Infogram a plus
• Excellent design/creative portfolio and online presence expertise
• Highly flexible and adaptable, embraces ambiguity and responds positively to change
• Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines
• Applies best practices and how own area integrates with others

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accomodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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