Senior Visual Designer II

Forbes Advisor is a new initiative for consumers under the Forbes Marketplace umbrella that provides journalist- and expert-written insights, news and reviews on all things personal finance, health, business, and everyday life decisions. We do this by providing consumers with the knowledge and research they need to make informed decisions they can feel confident in, so they can get back to doing the things they care about most. We are an experienced team of industry experts dedicated to helping readers make smart decisions and choose the right products with ease. Marketplace boasts decades of experience across dozens of geographies and teams, including Content, SEO, Business Intelligence, Finance, HR, Marketing, Production, Technology and Sales. We bring rich industry knowledge to Marketplace’s global coverage of consumer credit, debt, health, home improvement, banking, investing, credit cards, small business, education, insurance, loans, real estate and travel.

At Marketplace, our mission is to help readers turn their aspirations into reality. We arm people with trusted advice and guidance, so they can make informed decisions they feel confident in and get back to doing the things they care about most. 

We are an experienced team of industry experts dedicated to helping readers make smart decisions and choose the right products with ease. Marketplace boasts decades of experience across dozens of geographies and teams. The team brings rich industry knowledge to Marketplace’s global coverage of consumer credit, debt, health, home improvement, banking, investing, credit cards, small business, education, insurance, loans, real estate and travel. 

Responsibilities

• Visual Craft: Partner with product designers across pods (insurance, financial products, home services, and others) to bring illustration, motion, and visual polish into flows that drive measurable conversion lift. Sit in critiques, push back, and propose visual solutions to product problems. 

• Illustration & Visual Systems: Design and produce original illustrations, icon sets, and visual assets that extend our brand into product surfaces — editorial pages, landmark templates, conversion funnels, AI/LLM templates, and onboarding. Build illustration systems that scale, not one-offs. 

• Motion & Animation: Own motion work end-to-end, from storyboard and concept through After Effects composition, Lottie export, and lightweight SVG/CSS animation specs handed to engineering. Ensure motion ships at the quality you designed. 

• Design System Contribution: Develop and maintain illustration and motion guidelines as part of our design system — defining style, usage rules, reusable components, and motion tokens. 

• Brand & Sponsored Content: Contribute to high-visibility sponsored content packages and media kit deliverables, working alongside BD, editorial, and brand stakeholders when those projects call for senior visual craft. 

• Rapid Prototyping: Concept and prototype visual ideas quickly — comps, moodboards, animation tests to align stakeholders before production. 

• Engineering Partnership: Collaborate with front-end engineers on implementation, specifying motion behavior, easing, timing, and fallback states so what ships matches intent. 

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across design, product, editorial, BD, and engineering. Articulate why a visual choice matters in plain language to non-designers. 

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a visual designer, graphic designer, illustrator, or motion designer, ideally with time inside a product, editorial, or digital media environment. 

• A portfolio that demonstrates range: original illustration work, strong typographic and layout craft, and motion pieces you've taken from concept to shipped asset. 

• Deep fluency in After Effects, Lottie (Bodymovin or equivalent), Figma, and the Adobe suite. Comfort with SVG animation and a working understanding of how motion ships on web. 

• Experience producing illustration systems that scale across a product or brand — defining style, rules, and reusable components rather than producing isolated assets. 

• Strong opinions about craft, paired with the collaborative instincts to work inside a product design team and respond to business and conversion goals. 

• Ability to articulate the rationale behind a visual choice in plain language to PMs, engineers, editors, and commercial stakeholders. 

• Comfortable iterating quickly in a fast-paced environment and distilling direction from open-ended briefs. 

• Remote-first experience with strong asynchronous communication habits. 

• You bring people together—articulate vision, build alignment, and foster cross-team collaboration through inspiring narrative. 

Must haves

• Minimum of 6+ years experience in visual design, graphic design, illustration, or motion design 

• Portfolio with at least 4-6 projects showcasing illustration systems and motion work with clear rationale 

• Expert proficiency in After Effects, Lottie, and Figma 

• Demonstrated experience shipping motion work to production on web 

Nice to haves

• Working knowledge of front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/SVG) sufficient to spec animations for engineering 

• Familiarity with AI image and motion tools (Gemini, Whisk, Flow, Runway) as part of a production workflow 

• Experience designing for editorial or media brands 

• Background in advertising, sponsored content, or branded creative 

• Experience contributing to a design system 

Perks

• Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month) 
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being 
• Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program 
• Paid paternity and maternity leaves

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