Visual Designer IV

Summary

Join NerdWallet's in-house creative brand studio as a Digital Designer to contribute to compelling visual storytelling and innovative content. You will conceptualize, design, and implement creative solutions supporting our design system and digital programs. This role involves defining and evolving brand expression across digital properties, collaborating with senior designers, and maintaining design systems. You will create landing pages, digital ads, emails, and banners, working closely with engineers for implementation. The ideal candidate possesses 3-5 years of digital/web design and design system experience, strong visual design principles, and proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. This is a 100% remote, W2 contract role with an hourly rate of $71.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of applied design experience, specifically in digital/web design and design systems
• Excellent foundation of visual design principles (layout, typography, color, hierarchy)
• Strong experience in Figma, contributing to design systems, creating new components and variants
• Experience designing for digital channels such as web design, digital ads, social ads, banner ads
• Proficient in UX/UI principles with a demonstrated ability to apply them effectively across web and mobile design
• Skilled in attention to detail with a pixel-perfect design approach and a strong focus on systematic thinking
• Experienced in collaborating closely with engineers on website development and implementation
• Experience in Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our design system by building components and variants, and expanding on component ideas for landing pages, emails, and ad designs
• Design landing pages for campaigns and nerdwallet.com, building in our CMS platform, and collaborating with engineering to QA and bring pages to life
• Help prep landing page files to be production ready for development handoff
• Create banner ads and digital ads for performance marketing, brand campaigns, and homepage
• Create and maintain design templates for digital creative
• Design email designs using our email design system and proposing testing ideas
• Partner with product design to create delightful, branded, user experiences on webpages and within our product experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in illustration
• Working knowledge of motion graphics and interaction design

Benefits

• The hourly rate for this position is $71/hour
• This is a W2 contract role hired by Magnit
• The estimated schedule for this engagement would be 40 hours per week from January-December
• This role is 100% remote (based in the U.S. or Canada)