Morningstar Design Information
We do not have any more internships this summer, but there is one full-time, entry-level position.
Position: Designer
Business Unit: Retail (includes the investor website Morningstar.com)
Morningstar is currently seeking an entry-level designer. The entry level designer
will work under the guidance of Senior Designers and the Design Director or team
leader to provide creative assistance and support to the design team throughout the
design process. Responsibilities include developing design concepts for our investor
websites, newsletters and other publications, refining design concepts, creating
product prototypes, and developing specification documents for team-wide reference.
Designers must have strong verbal communication and typography skills, extensive
knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver or other interaction development
tools. Experience with digital photography, publication design, online or
interactive design, information design is also beneficial. Each applicant must have
a degree in graphic design to be considered.
Design at Morningstar
Design teams at Morningstar work in a cross-disciplinary environment, interacting
with writers, site coordinators, product managers, programmers and other technical
experts on a daily basis. Creative skill sets have not been as narrowly defined as
at some web development companies, so designers are involved in a broad range of the
interface design process including information design, interaction design and
technical design.
The nature of Morningstar's online content is varied and complex: financial data,
feature articles, and interactive tools and applications. Our overall goal is to
present this information to individual investors with the utmost clarity and
simplicity. Designers should therefore be interested in and skilled at solving
challenging information and communication design problems. Strong typographic skills
and a desire to create compelling visual communication documents are required. Since
financial services is one of the most competitive businesses on the Web, a strong
desire to compete by using design to make Morningstar a financial and critical
success is a plus.
Design at Morningstar is recognized at the highest levels of the company and is seen
as a core skill, integral to our success. While most designers at the company work
for a specific business unit, it is the company's goal to build a strong visually
unified global brand.
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