Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

Leads quality engineering and test automation for payments, messaging, liquidity, and banking systems. Responsibilities include developing automation frameworks for UI, APIs, and microservices; implementing CI/CD pipelines; establishing enterprise testing strategies; conducting proof-of-concepts; resolving defects; improving automation metrics and processes; and mentoring SDETs. The role requires extensive quality engineering, automation, technical leadership, financial-services domain knowledge, and collaboration with global technical and business teams.

Drive distribution of NTAM solutions through Wealth Client Group intermediaries by creating targeted account plans, coordinating with product and marketing teams, designing coverage models, identifying high-probability prospects, deepening client relationships, and traveling domestically to client offices (20–40% travel).

Lead global content strategy and delivery for Wealth Management sales enablement. Create scalable, compliant sales and proposal content, drive adoption through training and technology, manage RFP/proposal teams, partner across Sales, Investments, Compliance and Marketing, and measure content impact using KPIs and AI-enabled tools to improve pipeline conversion and response quality.

Maintains complex wealth management client relationships across fiduciary, investment management, estate settlement, guardianship, and custody accounts. Coordinates account administration, service requests, transactions, documentation, compliance processes, action plans, and issue resolution. Supports advisors with client meetings, presentations, business development, and account reviews. Ensures systems and fee information remain accurate, identifies process improvements, and mentors junior employees while overseeing daily operational activities.

Manages OTC and FX derivatives trade operations, including confirmations, settlements, resets, corporate actions, discrepancy resolution, documentation, and regulatory processes. Serves as a product subject-matter expert, escalation point, project lead, and liaison among clients, counterparties, trading desks, control groups, and technology teams. Supports trade-management system enhancements, staff training, strategic initiatives, and accurate risk-controlled processing in a fast-paced environment.

Leads Northern Trust’s national Sports & Entertainment wealth management franchise. Develops strategy, operating model, ecosystem partnerships, client pipeline, and advisory revenue while coordinating advisors and specialists. Builds relationships with athletes, entertainers, agents, team owners, executives, family offices, and professional advisors. Establishes governance, controls, reporting, and risk standards, advises senior leadership, and connects the franchise to ultra-high-net-worth offerings.

Performs internal audits across departments by assessing risks, controls, business processes, and operating practices. Develops audit test steps, documents findings, evaluates control effectiveness, identifies weaknesses, and recommends improvements. Reviews regulatory changes, supports special projects, communicates audit results to business units, and prepares professional summaries and workpapers. The role requires analytical, organizational, report-writing, and financial-services auditing knowledge.

Prepare and maintain fund accounting records, assist with investment fund NAV calculations, reconcile cash and securities accounts, resolve accounting discrepancies, process investment transactions, and follow internal controls. The role also supports process improvements and requires strong analytical, communication, teamwork, and attention-to-detail skills.

Consults with institutional trust and custody clients to assess requirements and implement asset servicing, custody, and trust products. Coordinates onboarding, implementation plans, service setup, documentation, training, and stakeholder communication. Manages risks, resolves implementation challenges, and ensures successful client outcomes while partnering with sales, relationship management, client service, and operational teams.