Senior UX Designer

About the Role

Morningstar is looking for a Senior Designer to help lead user experience (UX) and visual design for the Morningstar Indexes and Sustainalytics websites. We’re looking for a designer who loves the challenge of turning complex topics into compelling designs, translating wireframes into beautiful, engaging interfaces, and creating rewarding experiences for our diverse client base. In this role, you will work with our business owners, central brand team, marketing team, software developers, project managers, and product managers to develop the next iterations of our public facing websites.

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:

• Turning complex information into usable, engaging, and easy-to-understand design experiences and presenting multiple concepts for consideration 

• Making expert-level decisions around typography, composition, color, information hierarchies, and data visualization 

• Creating prototypes with interactive transitions, visual specs, and other artifacts to communicate design direction

• Utilizing user-centered design methods (such as user research, prototyping, and other design thinking) in day-to-day work to inform design decisions 

• Articulating design decisions to peers, engineering teams, and stakeholders 

• Expressing the Morningstar brand and coaching the team on how to achieve those outcomes 

• Participating in greater design efforts, such as contributing to the Morningstar Design System 

• Participating in visual QA to ensure the final implementation matches your design

• Being a self-directed critical thinker, capable of and comfortable working independently 

You’ll also do things like:

• Drive the discovery process and participate in requirements gathering exercises to identify business needs and inform design decisions

• Partner with the product owner and engineering team to support the end-to-end vision of the product

• Demonstrate exceptional stakeholder management skills, including effectively managing expectations and obtaining agreement on key objectives

• Edit and generate clear and concise labels, prompts, and other messaging copy that guides the user and meets business needs

• Persuade and lead others to invest in quality design and demonstrate the value of doing it right

• Apply creativity, logic, and critical thinking in new situations to find the best solution while continuously striving to find better ways of doing things

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or equivalent experience/training in the graphic arts

• At least 5 years of experience designing for software, web, and/or digital products

• Strong communication skills and ability to work with distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of Figma and/or Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and Mac OS X

• Knowledge of HTML and CSS

• Experience making simple animations

• Familiarity working with Content Management System

How to apply:

Please include a portfolio of work that you’re most proud of, so you can tell stories about your experience and the impact you've had. We're interested in the designs you’ve created and want to understand how you work with a team to solve problems.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least 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.