Asset & Wealth Management, Marketing, Associate - Chicago

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

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Group is seeking an Associate Designer in Chicago to join Asset & Wealth Management Marketing. You will coordinate updates with junior designers, create high-quality assets communicating market insights, product offerings, and brand values while ensuring regulatory compliance and adherence to global standards.

The role blends creative design with production and formatting duties, with a workload split around 20% management, 40% design, and 40% production.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of designer's work (weblink or PDF) required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or related field.
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).
• Advanced Figma for layout design, prototyping, and components.

Responsibilities

• Workflow management: update and coordinate product materials with team.
• Create high-fidelity web banners, social media graphics, and emails.
• Translate data into clear infographics and visuals that comply with brand standards.
• Produce motion graphics: short ads or edited videos per templates.
• Format and maintain marketing collateral and pitch books.

Skills

3–5 years design experience

Brand storytelling

Regulatory compliance

Digital/web design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design

Tools

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

After Effects

Figma

PowerPoint

Word

Director

Job description

Asset & Wealth Management, Marketing, Associate - Chicago

Chicago, IL, United States

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 .

Job Info

• Job Identification 186494
• Job Category Associate
• Posting Date 10/30/2026, 02:40 PM
• Locations Chicago, IL, United States

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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.

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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.

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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).

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