Digital Design Lead

About The Role

Morningstar's Creative Services team is looking for an experienced Lead Digital Designer with a genuine commitment to building exceptional, user-centered digital experiences. In this role, you'll lead design work across our digital platforms, collaborating with Creative Services peers, the Corporate Digital Web team, and cross-functional partners in marketing, product, and technology.

Job Responsibilities

• Design a wide range of digital content — web experiences, design systems, data visualizations, and interactive experiences.
• Take an active role in the design process from discovery through delivery, helping shape B2B solutions that engage and inform.
• Apply strong core design skills — especially in typography, composition, information hierarchy, and data visualization — to create delightful, engaging experiences that reinforce the Morningstar brand.
• Proven fluency with AI-enabled content workflows, including experience evaluating, piloting, or operationalizing AI tools that improve content quality, efficiency, or governance.
• Solve challenging information and communication design problems and be able to present multiple concepts for consideration, with sound rationale.
• Contribute to competitive assessments and gather inputs that inform strategy and creative direction.
• Present and defend design solutions to cross-functional teams, be open to feedback and know how and when to defend design choices that balance business goals.
• Incorporate Morningstar design systems, brand standards, and digital best practices while educating both stakeholders and engineers.
• Connect and communicate with other design teams within Morningstar.

Qualifications

• Design 7+ years of experience designing digital products, interactions, large-scale websites, or applications.
• Experience contributing to and managing design systems, with the ability to educate stakeholders and partners on standards and best practices.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in digital/visual design, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong skills in information hierarchy, typography, and data visualization.
• Able to present design solutions clearly to project teams and stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects that balance innovation and usability, with the ability to listen and anticipate needs from multiple teams.
• Comfortable presenting and defending design decisions to senior stakeholders and translating design rationale into business and user impact.
• Proven ability to build alignment across disciplines — including marketing, product, and engineering — while navigating competing priorities and feedback.
• Work Style & Leadership: Flexible and able to manage multiple projects and shifting priorities in a fast-moving environment. Self-directed and comfortable working independently, leveraging modern tools—including AI— to improve focus, efficiency, and the quality of design output.
• Experience mentoring or leading peers; interest in people leadership is a plus.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and other design and prototyping tools.
• Familiarity with CMS platforms (Contentstack is a plus), HTML, and CSS.
• A working knowledge of AI-assisted design and productivity tools, and a sense of how to use them responsibly to augment creativity, efficiency, and decision-making.

How to Apply

Please include a portfolio of work you're most proud of, so you can tell stories about your experience and impact. We're interested in your designs and want to understand how you work with a team to solve problems.

Compensation And Benefits

• Total Cash Compensation Range: $95,275.00-139,741.66 Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive
• Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week.
• A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change.