Senior Graphic Designer

Why join us?

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 8 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years) 
• Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible 
• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few 
• Family-friendly work hours 
• With 175+ community bank locations, we offer opportunities to grow and develop in your career 
• Promote from within culture

Why join this team?

• Building an agile, world-class team structured with a Fintech startup mindset. 
• Opportunity for digital savvy and entrepreneurial marketers to make big impacts - not just a cog in the wheel. 
• Close, collaborative culture that celebrates diverse backgrounds, thinking, and ideas.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and collaborate with junior designers and copywriters 
• Create innovative and on-brand emails, landing pages, and display/social ads, print advertisements, postcards, brochures, and more, in association with marketing initiatives and campaigns. 
• Learn and understand Wintrust’s product line and their disclosures 
• Translate marketing objectives into clear creative with the customer journey in mind. 
• Listen to design needs, come up with ideas, and communicate them to leadership and other members of the team. 
• Balance creative instincts with data learning to optimize creative assets. 
• Produce clean, organized, and technically accurate files that are ready to share with other designers, printers and/or developers. 
• Be a constant learner with a passion for making things better by actively keeping ahead of the curve and exploring tools, trends/best practices,and styles, as well as advertising and design styles. 
• Design eye-catching digital assets that lead to higher levels of engagement and increased click-through rates, as well as sales growth where possible. 
• Research up-to-date and emerging technologies and developments in the design field and implement them when appropriate. 
• Present designs and key deliverables to peers and department management

• 7-10 plus years of professional experience in graphic design and marketing 
• Highly developed skills in Adobe Creative Suite (XD, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Word ) 
• Handle running multiple projects every day that are at different stages of approval 
• A portfolio with digital emphasis that clearly demonstrates strengths in concepting, creative thinking, and has a clean design aesthetics 
• Experience in an in-house corporate design agency or agency creative department a plus as well as working with the nuances of legal disclosure on marketing 
• Knowledge of Workfront and Bannersnack is a plus

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment
• Short-term and long term Disability Insurance 
• Parental Leave 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) with company match 
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount 
• Critical Illness Insurance 
• Accident Insurance 
• Transportation and Commuting Benefits 
• Banking Benefits
• Pet Insurance