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Visual Designer IV (Contract)

At NerdWallet, our mission is to provide people with clarity and confidence to make better financial decisions. Our in-house creative brand studio plays a pivotal role in bringing this mission to life through compelling visual storytelling and innovative content. As a Digital Designer, you will help conceptualize, design, and implement creative solutions to support our design system, digital programs and campaigns. This role will report to the Director of Brand Design.

As a Digital Designer on the Brand Studio team, you will help define, implement, and evolve our brand expression across our digital properties – contributing to programs including CRM, performance marketing, product marketing, and more. You will support Senior team members by helping build and maintain our design systems across landing pages, emails, digital ads, and our overall brand guidelines. With a start-up mentality and your range of skills in visual design, web design, and design systems, you will help our team push the boundaries of what's possible to grow and extend the NerdWallet brand.

Your center of excellence should be digital design, with experience contributing to design systems, landing page design, digital and social ads, emails, and banners. You will work closely with our Senior Digital Designers and Art Directors to maintain our design system in Figma, build digital templates and creative, design landing pages, and help build in our CMS platform.

Where you can make an impact:

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

Your experience:

We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

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, interest in illustration a plus
Working knowledge of motion graphics and interaction design is a plus

Pay Transparency & Contract Details:

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)

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What You Should Know About Visual Designer IV (Contract), NerdWallet

At NerdWallet, we are on a mission to empower individuals to make informed financial choices, and as a Visual Designer IV (Contract), you’ll play a crucial role in this journey. Joining our dynamic in-house creative brand studio, you will dive into the world of digital design, supporting our design system and a variety of innovative campaigns. Reporting to the Director of Brand Design, your day-to-day will involve a diverse range of responsibilities including conceptualizing, designing, and implementing creative solutions that resonate across our digital channels. You'll work closely with Senior Digital Designers and Art Directors, helping to evolve our brand expression by creating stunning landing pages, digital ads, and email designs. Your keen eye for detail and familiarity with tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite will be essential as you build design components and templates, ensuring that our branding is coherent and compelling at every touchpoint. If you’re passionate about pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling and eager to collaborate with talented team members, this role might be your perfect fit. We’re looking for someone with 3-5 years in digital design, who thrives in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, and who’s excited to contribute to a team that's dedicated to making a meaningful impact through design.

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What does a Visual Designer IV at NerdWallet do?

A Visual Designer IV at NerdWallet is responsible for conceptualizing and executing creative visual solutions that enhance the company's brand expression. This role includes building design systems, creating landing pages, and producing digital ads while collaborating closely with other design team members and engineers.