About LearnVest

LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future. 

Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands. 

Description:

The Associate Creative Director, Product is the driving force behind bringing LearnVest’s mission to the masses. This person is a thought leader who is also deep in the trenches of the craft and doing in a high speed environment built to delight and perform. An equal obsession with simplicity and elegance in their own work and the designers they are leading on projects spells success.

Responsibilities:

• Play a major role in codifying the expression of the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands in digital products
• Create elegant typography, clean grids, beautiful visualizations of complex information...
• Ensure our products are the ultimate expression of the Learnvest mission and value prop through visual design
• Ensure consistency of fluidity in visual language across breakpoints an devices
• Drive the future of our products and help execute their realization
• Mentor and manage and assist in recruiting a team of superlative visual designers
• Assist in managing teams across offices and agencies when necessary
• Working well with the UX, Copy, Research teams and be an ambassador of awesomeness to Product, Tech and Business Partners
• Make sure that we are never settling

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in a creative role
• Experience mentoring, growing junior designers while ensuring every pixel is perfect and the work is strategically on point, clean and delightful
• Significant knowledge of the fundamentals: interaction design, user-centered design, brand development, and how products are put together.
• Ability to provide clear creative feedback as well as timely and prescriptive critique on work as well as how to improve the design process for the company as a whole.
• Don draper-esque presentation skills and communication abilities tailored to the audience in the room
• A passion for being on top of new platforms and technologies.

Link to work or an online portfolio is a must

Things that we value: 

• Curious minds and an appetite for learning
• Passion for the craft
• A strong point of view with a healthy dose of humility
• A collaborative mindset, thick skin and a great sense of humor
• Finesse to know when to be evolutionary and when is the right time for a revolution
• A personality that thrives in a agile/nimble environments
• Willingness to take risks and fail (and fail again. And again)
• A belief in our vision

Benefits

• Fully stocked snacks, beer fridge, cold brew kegs, frequent catered lunches, company dodgeball team, and whiskey hours
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
• Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, Matching 401(k), pension program