Art Director Jobs in Illinois

This is an opportunity, you'll own end-to-end visual storytelling across campaigns and experiences—setting the creative direction, leading photo shoots, and building scalable design systems that bring clarity, consistency, and energy to one of the most visible brands in financial services.

As an Art Director / Graphic Designer on the Brand, Creative team, you'll concept and produce brand-defining creative that helps JPMorganChase show up clearly and consistently across touchpoints. You'll design and refine assets across channels (digital, social and print), contribute to scalable visual systems, and collaborate with partners across marketing, product, and creative from brief through delivery. You'll also lead photoshoots and social productions end-to-end—setting the visual approach, building shot lists, directing talent on set, and overseeing selects/retouching to ensure the final imagery meets brand standards. This role is built for a creative with strong craft and judgment who can balance ambition with precision, speed, and consistency at enterprise scale.

Job responsibilities

• Direct photoshoots and social productions: Develop shot lists, visual direction, partner with producers, photographers, and directors, direct talent on set, oversee selects and retouching and edits.
• Build, evolve, and maintain visual identity systems and toolkits that enable consistent execution across partnership assets and channels.
• Develop and execute creative concepts and designs across card design, packaging, email, print collateral, publication, and other partnership-related applications.
• Apply advanced typography, color theory, layout, and photography direction to produce elevated, engaging work.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to solve design challenges, align on objectives, and deliver cohesive creative outcomes.
• Present and clearly articulate design decisions, rationale, and brand standards to team members and stakeholders.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 3–5 years of creative agency experience in graphic design, brand design, or visual communication design.
• Bachelor's degree in design, visual arts, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Portfolio showing strong design fundamentals and range across multi-channel deliverables (digital, print, and presentation work).
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma, including efficient file setup and organized working practices.
• Strong command of typography, layout, hierarchy, composition, and image-making/selection.
• Demonstrated ability to work within (and help maintain) brand guidelines, templates, and design systems.
• Comfort partnering cross-functionally and communicating clearly in critiques, reviews, and stakeholder conversations.
• High attention to detail with strong quality control—from concept through final production files.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with solid prioritization and time management.
• Interest in experimenting with and adopting AI-enabled tools/workflows to support design exploration and execution.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience designing for large, complex organizations or multi-brand environments with multiple stakeholders and approval paths.
• Working knowledge of animation/motion design—able to concept and/or produce simple animations for digital and social (e.g., kinetic type, transitions, logo/brand moments), with experience in tools like After Effects (or equivalent) a plus.
• Experience contributing to or evolving design systems, templates, toolkits, or scalable visual frameworks.
• Ability to art direct or collaborate on imagery/illustration, including selecting, commissioning, or guiding assets when needed.
• Comfort partnering with external agencies, freelancers, or production vendors to deliver work on time and on brand.
• Interest in exploring new tools and workflows (including AI-enabled) to improve efficiency and creative output.

Additional information

• Opportunity to work on iconic brands and high-impact projects.
• Collaborative, creative, and fast-paced team culture.
• Commitment to professional growth and innovation.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

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