Senior Digital 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.

The Senior Digital Designer supports teams in the Digital & Brand Design practice within Corporate Marketing, envisioning digital and service experiences for BU products and initiatives. The Senior Digital Designer ensures that the design of a new or existing product or offering is elevating the experience of interacting with Northern Trust and meeting or exceeding the needs of the people these experiences serve.

Working Model: Hybrid

We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need, and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office and working from home.

Major Duties

• Works within processes established by design leadership and contributes to improve future team workflows.
• Works toward improved user experiences with a team of creatives, technology, and business collaborators to create stunning digital concepts to meet client briefs and expectations.
• Contributes to an open culture that enables employee development through direct and constructive feedback, promotes diverse perspectives, and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism.
• Creates user experiences, from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity mockups and prototypes while applying the NT Digital Design System and digital resources.
• Balances design decisions between research, technology, and business unit objectives.
• Partners with UX/UI lead, Visual designers, and development teams to create best-in-class digital experience across NorthernTrust.com including campaign landing pages, thought-leadership pages, design systems, interactive web experiences, and other digital-based experiences for the brand and BUs.
• Applies and extends brand identity systems, understanding of typography, photography, color, tone of voice, and other visual aesthetics appropriate to create innovative visual solutions that meet business and project needs.
• Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
• Ensures deliverables are accessible (WCAG 2.1).

Knowledge

• Strong design skills in one or more competency areas (visual, interaction, UX, information architecture, product).
• Able to present work and decisions effectively, through presentation and storytelling skills.
• Highly flexible, adaptable to change, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Effective use of collaborative/communication tools.
• Clear growth mindset, looking for opportunities to learn and motivated to approach challenges proactively.

Experience

• 5+ years demonstrated work experience in design delivering UX/UI experiences for digital products and interactions, comprehensive websites, or applications.
• Extensive knowledge and technical skills in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Working knowledge in Adobe Experience Manager or similar CMS platforms, and HTML, HTML5, CSS is a plus.
• Experience building components in conjunction with development team is a plus.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and prioritize when needed.
• Educated in design or related field, formally or through comparable training.
• Working knowledge of Human-Centered Design and UI/UX best practices, as demonstrated in a portfolio of professional work.
• Experience working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle.

Working With Us

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 accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at

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.