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Senior Digital/Visual Designer (application)

Swoon, Chicago, IL, United States

Salary: $60/hour

Job type: Full Time


Our client, a top recognizable financial/commercial banking organization, is hiring a Senior Visual/Digital Designer to join their team working on their new visual refresh of the their banking digital and in-app experiences for the US, an exciting new initiative, reporting to their Senior Design Manager of US Digital Banking.


Hourly Rate: Up to $60/hour (some flex)

Duration: 1 year

*High probability to extend & possibility to convert to FTE (not guaranteed)

Location: Chicago (hybrid)


Day to Day:

  • Work on the new look/feel for digital experience (design systems/design guidelines have been established)
  • Key designer driving visual design thinking, contribute to ideation, and design strategy; breathe life into the new visual experience and establish core elements to take into the application
  • Apply the design system/guidelines to the US side of the business, building it into next year's visual refresh for their mobile banking application
  • Partner with UX/Product Design and UX Research
  • Own the work end-to-end working highly collaboratively, and fairly autonomously


Requirements/Experience Needed:

  • 7+ years of experience (somewhat flexible)
  • Experience with higher-level visual design thinking, contribute to strategy and design ideation/vision (this is not a straight delivery role!)
  • Specific design experience working on mobile
    ative applications
    - required
  • Visual/Digital/Brand design background with a strong hands on understanding of UI/UX design
  • Ad agency experience - a big plus! (banking experience - like to have, not required)
  • Portfolio required - seeking clean layouts, use of gradients/animations, confident use of white space, clean/on trend look/feel
  • Must have experience designing for web, mobile, and application (animation experience a bis plus!)


Please provide your portfolio within your resume showcasing clean on-trend digital/application/mobile design work; must be well organized.