Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads go-to-market launches, product positioning, messaging, sales enablement, customer marketing, and adoption programs for advisor software. Partners with product, sales, client success, and service teams to develop client-facing assets, competitive intelligence, and lifecycle marketing initiatives. Uses market research, win/loss analysis, analytics, and business results to guide product decisions, improve sales performance, increase retention, and drive customer engagement.

Leads the Security Engineering team responsible for security tooling, detection platforms, endpoint and email protection, SOAR, cloud security, and security foundations. Sets engineering priorities, develops staff, manages roadmaps, improves SOC detections and incident response, automates security operations, and partners with product, cloud, and infrastructure teams across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The role also integrates security checks into CI/CD pipelines and supports secure AI-assisted development.

Leads Morningstar’s global communications strategy, corporate narrative, executive and CEO communications, media relations, thought leadership, digital content, reputation, crisis response, internal communications, and employer brand storytelling. Oversees a 20-person global team, communications budget, agency ecosystem, analytics, AI enablement, and regional execution. Advises senior executives and the Board while modernizing communication channels, operating models, measurement, and content formats.

Leads Morningstar’s U.S. Investment Management distribution organization, setting go-to-market strategy and driving revenue, net asset flow, market-share growth, and strategic partnerships. Oversees advisor distribution, sales, national accounts, portfolio specialists, and practice consulting. Builds commercial infrastructure, manages forecasting and P&L contributions, launches investment capabilities, strengthens advisor relationships, and develops a high-performing leadership team.

Develop qualified sales opportunities by researching prospects, following up on marketing-qualified leads, conducting outreach by phone, email, and LinkedIn, arranging meetings and demonstrations, maintaining CRM records, tracking outreach metrics, and sharing lead-quality feedback with marketing and sales teams.

Owns Morningstar Direct’s event marketing channel, including strategy, portfolio planning, execution, budgeting, vendor management, performance measurement, and optimization. Partners with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to drive pipeline, engagement, customer relationships, and business growth through conferences, sponsorships, executive programs, hosted events, and hospitality experiences. Establishes scalable processes and uses automation, AI, and event technology to improve execution and attendee experiences.

Own discovery, validation, and delivery of agentic AI use cases for Morningstar Direct. Lead market research, experiments, prototypes, requirements, product vision, prioritization, and execution with engineering, data, design, sales, marketing, and client success teams. Engage financial professionals through demos and feedback sessions, while incorporating responsible AI principles including bias, safety, privacy, and reliability.

Senior full-stack JavaScript engineer to develop and modernize web applications. Build backend APIs with Node.js, create responsive single-page apps using Angular.js or Vue.js, implement consistent CSS/SASS, follow MVC/MVVM patterns, work in Agile/Scrum, and promote usability and scalability within a financial services context.

Develop, maintain, and analyze cash flow models for structured finance transactions across ABS, RMBS, CMBS, and structured credit. Interpret legal documents, model waterfalls and structural features, perform cash flow tie-outs, assess credit implications, and present findings to senior stakeholders and rating committees. Provide technical guidance to junior analysts and collaborate globally on complex transactions.

Early-career software engineer joining Morningstar’s Central Technology AI team through its development program. Responsibilities include contributing to Agile projects, researching and solving business problems, building AI-enabled solutions with Python and modern AI tools, collaborating with engineers and business stakeholders, presenting outcomes, and participating in structured training and mentorship. The role is based in Chicago with four days per week in the office.