Asset & Wealth Management, Marketing, Associate - Chicago

Goldman Sachs; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in Chicago seeks an Associate, Designer to join the Asset Management Marketing team. You will coordinate updates with junior designers and ensure brand compliance while delivering high-quality visuals of market insights and products.

The role blends creative design with production tasks, balancing innovation with regulatory standards. You will work across digital assets, print collateral, and key campaigns, including infographics, motion design, and PowerPoint support.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of designer's work (weblink or PDF) required.
• 3–5 years of professional design experience, preferably in financial services.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud; InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop; motion design preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate updates of Innovator ETF materials with channel and product marketing.
• Design high‑fidelity web banners, social graphics, and email assets for campaigns.
• Translate financial data and market insights into clean infographics.
• Create short animated display ads or edit short talking-head videos.
• Update, format, and maintain marketing collateral on a monthly/quarterly cadence.
• Refine and format high-stakes PowerPoint presentations with brand consistency.

Skills

3–5 yrs design

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Organization

Education

Bachelors in Graphic Design

Tools

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

After Effects

Director

Figma

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Role Overview:

This Associate, Designer will sit within the in-house marketing team in Asset Management Marketing in Chicago and report to the US Head of Design in New York. This role is responsible for coordinating product materials updates with junior designers based in Chicago.

Design functions include conceptualizing and executing high-quality visual assets that communicate the firm's market insights, product offerings, and brand values. The designer must balance creative innovation with strict regulatory compliance and global brand standards. This role will execute at a creative level but is also required to perform essential production and formatting work.

The workload is structured as approximately 20% management, 40% creative design and 40% production & formatting. The ideal candidate is a versatile designer who is equally comfortable designing for digital/web environments and preparing assets for physical print production.

Key Responsibilities:

Workflow Management

• Intake & Maintenance:Manage update of Innovator ETF suite of materials, coordinate requirements and schedule with channel and product marketing.
• Conceptualization & Ideation:Collaborate with marketing strategists to brainstorm and design visually compelling campaigns, digital assets, and print collateral.
• Campaign Asset Creation:Design high-fidelity web banners, social media graphics, and email assets for business focus campaigns.
• Infographics:Translate complex financial data, market outlooks, and economic data into clean, modern, and easy-to-understand infographics.
• Motion design: Create short animated display ads or edit short talking-head videos per video template.

Creative Design

• Conceptualization & Ideation:Collaborate with marketing strategists to brainstorm and design visually compelling campaigns, digital assets, and print collateral.
• Campaign Asset Creation:Design high-fidelity web banners, social media graphics, and email assets for business focus campaigns.
• Infographics:Translate complex financial data, market outlooks, and economic data into clean, modern, and easy-to-understand infographics.
• Motion design: Create short animated display ads or edit short talking-head videos per video template.
• Template Management & Versioning:Update, format, and maintain existing marketing collateral, pitch books, and product materials in monthly or quarterly cadence.
• Insights: Support content and product team’s ad hoc insights by creating header image and data visualization for webpages
• Presentation Support:Refine and format high-stakes PowerPoint presentations, ensuring correct use of templates, typography, and brand consistency.
• Event Branding & Environmental Design: Adapt and elevate established brand standards to design cohesive visual assets for high-profile client events and conferences. Apply existing brand guidelines to stage backdrops, digital and directional signage, step-and-repeats, and custom booth layouts.

Key Qualifications & Technical Skills:

• Experience:3-5 years of professional design experience, preferably within financial services, corporate marketing, or an agency environment.
• Education:Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field.
• Portfolio: Portfolio of designer's work as weblink or PDF is required.
• Adobe Creative Cloud:Expert knowledge of Indesign (multi-page document layout), Illustrator (vector graphics), and Photoshop (image editing). After Effects, Director and/or other motion design experience strongly preferred.
• Figma:Advanced proficiency in Figma for layout design, prototyping, and utilizing component libraries.
• Microsoft Office:Advanced knowledge of PowerPoint and Word to ensure seamless integration of design assets into corporate templates.
• Attention to Detail:Exceptional precision is required to handle complex financial data and regulatory disclosures without errors.
• Organization:Strong organization skills with ability to manage multiple projects at once with tight and competing deadlines.

Team Player: Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who is open to feedback to refine design. Experience managing junior team members.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Chicago, IL, United States-based position is $85000-$150000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally availableto active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the‑art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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