Experience Design Specialist 2 - Contingent

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Experience Design Specialist in Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of experience design, content design, design programs, design research and strategy, or product design experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• Portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking and high craft execution, especially in environmental design, print, digital, and campaigns
• Strong understanding of typography, composition, layout systems, and visual hierarchy; ability to create clean, impactful aesthetics with disciplined restraint.
• Experience designing for event marketing ecosystems (e.g., signage, decks, email adjacent assets, on site collateral, templates).
• Comfort delivers design rationale: can explain the “why,” connect to the strategy andobjectives, and participate in stakeholder conversations.
• Highly collaborative, feedback positive, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast moving environment.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Motion design capability (simple kinetic typography, transitions, social/motion assets) or strong collaboration experience with motion/video teams
• Environmental production familiarity (print specs, vendor coordination, fabrication considerations)
• Experience partnering with web/dev/CX early to ensure creative concepts can be executed cleanly

What You Will Be Doing

• Participate in low to moderately complex initiatives and identify opportunity for process improvements within experience design, such as content design, design programs, design research and strategy, or product design.
• Review and analyze basic or tactical experience design assignments or challenges that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternatives, related to low-to-medium risk deliverables.
• Present recommendations for resolving low to moderately complex situations and exercise some independent judgment while developing understanding of function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Provide information to client personnel in experience design.
• Concept & pitch: Develop campaign and event concepts based on strategy and given creative vision, explore “mild to wild” routes, and contribute to client/stakeholder presentations with clear rationale and recommendations
• Design execution: Produce polished, channel ready creative across events, print, digital, and integrated campaign; maintaining a clean, high impact aesthetic
• Systems thinking: Translate creative direction into scalable design systems—layouts, typography, grids, component libraries—so assets can expand efficiently across touchpoints.
• Collaborate in a pod model: Work in tight cross functional pods and engage early with partners (e.g., video/motion, web/dev, CX) to ensure concepts are feasible and production ready
• Iterate quickly and strategically: Respond to feedback constructively, refine work through rounds, and uphold high craft standards from first comp to final files

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.