Sr. Designer, Brand & Marketing

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Brand design lead role focused on creating cohesive visuals for marketing, internal comms, and employer branding. Responsibilities include asset creation, brand guideline evolution, and collaboration with marketing teams. Strong emphasis on scalable systems, strategy contribution, and effective storytelling. Requires extensive experience with brand execution and design tools.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design high-quality visuals that bring our brand to life across marketing, communications, and internal initiatives
  • Develop creative assets for campaigns including digital ads, social media, landing pages, emails, presentations, and event materials
  • Maintain and evolve brand guidelines to ensure a cohesive and consistent visual identity
  • Collaborate closely with marketing stakeholders to concept and execute design solutions that support business goals
  • Create scalable systems of brand assets, templates, and design toolkits for use across the organization
  • Support internal communications and employer brand efforts with engaging visuals
  • Contribute to creative strategy and brainstorming sessions
  • Present and articulate design rationale to stakeholders at various levels of the business
  • Advocate for best practices in visual storytelling, typography, color, and layout

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in brand, marketing, or visual design with a strong digital portfolio
  • A portfolio that demonstrates excellence in brand execution across diverse formats and channels
  • Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as Figma
  • Strong understanding of typography, layout, color theory, and visual hierarchy
  • Experience maintaining and evolving a brand identity across a growing organization
  • Excellent collaboration, communication, and presentation skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

  • Experience in fintech, SaaS, or a high-growth startup environment
  • Experience with CMS platforms such as Contentful
  • Motion design or animation capabilities
  • Experience with event branding and experiential design
  • Familiarity with print production processes
  • Passion for markets, trading, or financial technology

Benefits

  • Our Core Benefits Include: Generous PTO 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually 1 Service Day Annually 401k with 3.5% Company Match Paid Parental Bonding Leave Health, Vision, Dental Coverage Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
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Founded in 2004
Chicago, Illinois, USA
449 employees (43 in marketing)
86% recommend to a friend
90% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.3%
Direct
58.2%
Referral
4.6%
Social
1.1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~449

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (8% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2020
    Private Equity

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