Senior Visual Designer

Charles Schwab Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation’s Marketing Experience Design Team is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to shape digital marketing experiences across web, email, and social. This role blends UX strategy, visual design craft, interaction design, design systems, and AI-enabled design processes.

You will partner with marketing, content, product, technology, brand, and vendor teams to turn complex needs into polished, scalable experiences that support client-centered outcomes and uphold Schwab’s brand

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in UX or visual design for digital marketing.
• Experience leading UX, UI, or visual design across digital marketing channels, including web and email.
• Strong understanding of content strategy and structure, information architecture, and taxonomy.
• Proficiency in Figma, reusable component libraries, visual specifications, and applied use of AI tools or AI-enabled workflows as part of the design process.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.

Skills

UX design

Visual design

Digital marketing

Interaction design

Product design

Content strategy

Design systems

AI-enabled workflows

Tools

Figma

Component libraries

Visual specifications

AI tools

Job 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.