Creative Content Producer: Audience Engagement & Video

Morningstar, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match up to 6%

Stock Ownership Potential

Health benefits (medical/dental/vision

Sabbatical program

Job summary

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Content Producer, Audience Engagement to bring investing coverage to life across social, video, newsletters and other formats.

The role blends editorial judgment with visual storytelling to translate complex investing concepts for individual investors. The ideal candidate will create social graphics, scripts, and short-form videos, collaborate with designers, and optimize content using performance data.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in digital journalism, editorial content, social media, audience development, content marketing, or a related field.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex ideas approachable.
• Demonstrated experience creating content for multiple digital formats, such as social posts, graphics, newsletters, or social media video.
• Strong visual instincts and experience using Canva or a comparable design platform.
• Experience developing short-form video content and appearing on camera.

Responsibilities

• Develop social media graphics, carousels, charts, and other visual storytelling formats using Canva and Morningstar's design systems.
• Collaborate with Morningstar designers on more elaborate graphics, templates, and visual storytelling projects.
• Write concise, engaging scripts for short-form social and editorial videos.
• Appear in videos when appropriate, helping explain investing news and concepts in an accessible way.
• Identify stories, data points, charts, and investing concepts with strong potential for visual, social, video, or newsletter treatment.
• Translate complex financial topics into content that is clear, accurate, useful, and engaging for individual investors.
• Help manage Morningstar's editorial presence across key social platforms, including planning, publishing, and optimizing content for each audience.
• Write and edit newsletter introductions and other original newsletter content that helps readers understand the day's most important investing stories.
• Contribute ideas for new recurring franchises, video concepts, visual explainers, newsletter features, and platform-specific storytelling formats.
• Use audience data and platform insights to evaluate performance, identify opportunities, and improve future content.
• Maintain Morningstar's standards for editorial independence, accuracy, voice, and visual consistency across every format.
• Collaborate with Morningstar's corporate social media team as editorial is a key contributor of content to owned corporate channels.

Skills

Content creation

Editorial judgment

On-camera video

Cross-platform storytelling

Social media audience development

Tools

Canva

Parse.ly

Sprinklr

Google Analytics

Job description

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Content Producer, Audience Engagement to bring investing coverage to life across social, video, newsletters and other formats.

The role blends editorial judgment with visual storytelling to translate complex investing concepts for individual investors. The ideal candidate will create social graphics, scripts, and short-form videos, collaborate with designers, and optimize content using performance data.