Top Fintech Design Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own product design for Scotch’s web-based back office, focusing on orders, transactions, payments, integrations, reporting, and data-heavy workflows. Lead merchant research, define problems with product managers, collaborate with engineers, design responsive experiences, evolve the design system, and support the full product lifecycle from discovery through post-launch iteration.

Own and evolve the design system for a new retail trading platform, including token architecture, Figma Variables, component libraries, Code Connect mappings, documentation, accessibility, and governance. Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to resolve design-to-code gaps and inform product decisions. Use AI tooling to improve workflows and work independently in an early-stage design organization.

Lead FinTech product design from vision through execution, including payment experiences, billing portals, spend management, bill payment, insights, and credit card products. Partner with product, engineering, data, and executives to define user-centered solutions, simplify complex workflows, lead design reviews, improve feedback processes, and shape design strategy while mentoring other designers and raising the organization’s quality bar.

Lead end-to-end design for Coinbase's CX products (Help Center, Chatbot, Voicebot, in-app Concierge). Define AI-powered support UX, build reusable pattern libraries, drive MVPs and future-state concepts, partner with product/engineering/operations, translate Concierge revenue goals into experience, and generate insights from customers and agents to improve automation and satisfaction.

Conducts user experience research for PayPal’s Checkout team, using surveys, user testing, data analysis, and other methods to uncover customer needs and pain points. Develops research methodologies, analyzes complex findings, leads research programs, and influences stakeholders to improve end-to-end purchasing experiences. The role also requires collaboration with enterprise merchants, developers, vendors, and partners, plus continuous improvement of research practices.

Create user-centered designs for a banking platform, improving usability, accessibility, and visual quality. Responsibilities include delivering pixel-perfect designs from concept through production, developing design systems and prototypes, and collaborating with customers, engineers, and product stakeholders. The role requires strong systems thinking, comfort with ambiguity, attention to detail, excellent communication, and a portfolio demonstrating high-quality consumer or enterprise product work.

Creates and delivers motion graphics, animation, visual effects, video, and branded visual storytelling across campaigns, social, digital, executive, and event channels. Develops storyboards, style frames, templates, motion systems, and reusable assets while maintaining brand, accessibility, legal, and technical standards. Collaborates with creative and marketing teams, manages complex assignments, and supports scalable, AI-enabled production workflows.

Lead content strategy, taxonomy, governance, and communication architecture for complex financial trading products. Design high-stakes regulatory and risk-mitigation experiences, govern AI-generated financial content, translate SEC and FINRA requirements into product direction, support new financial instrument launches, establish accuracy standards across platforms, and mentor junior designers.

Lead Rewards Network’s internal design team and external creative partners while owning brand stewardship, design systems, campaign execution, digital experiences, content production, and creative operations. Develop differentiated co-branded experiences across marketing, product, sales, service, and events. Mentor designers and copywriters, manage vendors and freelancers, collaborate cross-functionally, and present creative strategies and program status to executives and partners.

Leads Cboe’s global UX organization across design, research, and design systems. Sets enterprise UX strategy, AI-enabled design standards, accessibility practices, and design system governance. Manages hiring, performance, career development, resource allocation, roadmaps, budgets, vendors, and agency relationships. Partners with business, product, engineering, marketing, and communications leaders, represents UX at executive forums, defines UX metrics, and contributes to strategic projects as an individual contributor.