- Location
- Austin, TX, US · San Francisco, CA, US
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- iCIMS
Description
Your Opportunity
The Marketing Experience Design Team (MXD) helps marketing teams create consistent, high-quality digital experiences across web, email, and social channels.
As a Senior Visual Designer, you will shape how Schwab shows up across digital marketing touchpoints. This role blends UX strategy, visual design craft, interaction design, design systems, and emerging AI-enabled design processes. You will partner with marketing, content, product, technology, brand, and vendor teams to turn complex needs into polished, scalable digital experiences.
We are looking for a senior designer with strong visual design judgment who can lead independently, build trusted partnerships, and help teams make client-centered decisions without sacrificing brand quality, usability, or craft.
What You’ll Do
- Lead UX and visual design direction for digital marketing experiences across web, email, and social.
- Translate marketing goals, client needs, content strategy, brand direction, AI opportunities, and technology considerations into clear design direction.
- Create visual patterns, templates, modules, page layouts, and reusable assets that help teams deliver faster and more consistently.
- Apply strong understanding of interaction patterns, layout, typography, color, imagery, accessibility, and responsive behavior.
- Provide art direction and visual design critique to strengthen message clarity, brand expression, and overall experience quality.
- Apply AI tools and workflows to support discovery, synthesis, ideation, content exploration, prototyping, and workflow acceleration.
- Partner with marketing, content, product, engineering, analytics, legal/compliance, vendor, and channel teams to align decisions and remove barriers.
- Help teams adopt practical guidance, tools, and ways of working that improve quality and efficiency.
About MXD
- Creates scalable design assets, templates, modules, and guidance that support consistent digital marketing execution.
- Partners across channels to support web, email, and social experiences.
- Supports a large digital footprint, including approximately 28 websites and high-volume email programs across the organization.
What you have
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant experience in UX design, visual design, digital marketing experience, interaction design, product design, content strategy, or equivalent roles.
- Experience leading UX, UI, or visual design work across digital marketing channels, including web and email.
- Strong understanding of content strategy and structure, information architecture, and taxonomy.
- Strong visual design skills, including typography, layout, hierarchy, composition, color, imagery, responsive design, and brand expression across digital channels.
- Proficiency in Figma, reusable component libraries, visual specifications, and applied use of AI tools or AI-enabled workflows as part of the design process.
- Ability to communicate clearly, influence without direct authority, build alignment, and form strong cross-functional partnerships.
- Online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design craft, design thinking, problem-solving, and client-centered digital experience outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background creating templates, reusable components, or channel guidance that helps teams deliver at scale.
- Familiarity with modern content management systems and development platforms like Sanity and Vercel.
- Experience supporting client-facing experiences in regulated industries, financial services, complex enterprises, or large matrixed organizations.
- Ability to mentor designers and help teams adopt new tools and ways of working.
