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Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Visual Designer, Associate Director Requisition ID: 49113 Business Unit: Fitch Group Category: Information Technology Location: Toronto, ON, CA Date Posted: Feb 17, 2026 Fitch Ratings is seeking a worldclass Visual Designer to elevate the quality, clarity, and consistency of our digital product ecosystem. This role focuses on designing highfidelity user interfaces for complex, workflowdriven applications used daily by global financial professionals. As part of the Ratings Workflow Solutions team, you will shape how Fitchs products look, feel, and performbringing precision, hierarchy, and polish to datadense experiences where trust, efficiency, and usability matter deeply. You will partner closely with Product Designers, UX Researchers, Engineers, and senior stakeholders to translate user needs and product strategy into beautiful, scalable, and usable digital interfaces. This role is ideal for a designer who is passionate about product UI craft, thrives in complex problem spaces, and wants their work to ship, scale, and make a measurable impact. What We Offer: High Visibility: Collaborate directly with senior stakeholders and have a direct impact on the design and user experience of high-profile products used by industry leaders. Amazing Team: Join a diverse team of talented and experienced professionals who are passionate about design and innovation. Great Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that includes a competitive salary, health insurance, retirement plans, and generous paid time off. Well Count on You To Lead Visual Quality Across Digital Products: Set and maintain a high visual bar across Fitch Ratings Workflow applications. Design refined, accessible, and responsive interfaces that balance elegance with functional clarity. Apply strong visual hierarchy to make complex data and workflows intuitive and efficient Design for Scale and Systems: Contribute to and evolve a multibrand design system used across multiple products. Define reusable UI patterns, components, and standards that support consistency and quality. Ensure visual integrity is maintained from concept through implementation. Partner Deeply Across Disciplines: Collaborate with Product Designers and UX Researchers to translate insights, journeys, and requirements into highquality visual solutions. Work closely with engineers during handoff and build phases. Engage directly with senior stakeholders, articulating visual decisions with clarity and confidence. Champion Craft, Accessibility, and Innovation: Leverage AIassisted design tools to accelerate exploration, iteration, and refinement Advocate for accessibility best practices, inclusive design, and modern UI standards. Continuously refine designs based on usability testing, qualitative feedback, and quantitative product data. What You Need to Have 7+ years of experience in visual, UI, or product design with a strong focus on digital products or applications. An exceptional portfolio demonstrating highquality UI design for complex, datarich, or workflowheavy products. Expertlevel proficiency in Figma, including highfidelity UI, component libraries, and Dev Mode documentation. Deep understanding of typography, layout systems, color theory, and interaction design in product environments. Strong design judgment and the ability to clearly explain visual decisions and tradeoffs. Experience working within crossfunctional, Agile product teams. What Would Make You Stand Out Experience contributing to or leading design systems used across multiple products or brands. Experience designing enterprise, fintech, SaaS, or internal workflow applications. Comfort designing within technical constraints (component frameworks, performance considerations). A portfolio that shows both bigpicture systems thinking and finegrained UI detail. Experience mentoring designers or elevating visual quality across a team. About the Team Youll join a 25person UX organization that includes Product Designers, UX Researchers, and Design System Specialists. The teams mission is to deeply understand Fitchs internal and external users and deliver intuitive, efficient, and trustworthy digital experiences through close collaboration with product, engineering, and business partners. About Fitch Group and The Technology & Data Team As one of the worlds top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst. Join our fastgrowing Toronto innovation hub, where were building productiongrade AI to reshape global credit decisions. Here, you wont just ship featuresyoull help reinvent an industry using decadesdeep proprietary data and a modern tech stack, free from heavy legacy. Backed by full enterprise support, youll build reliable, explainable intelligence at real scale within a collaborative, outcomedriven community. If youre looking for purposeful work, constant learning, and a place where your impact and growth acceleratethis is where youll thrive. Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and longterm goals Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing Supportive Parenting Policies: Familyfriendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forwardlooking credit opinions. To protect Fitchs credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work. FOR TORONTO ROLES ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between 120,000 CAD and 145,000 CAD per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other jobrelated factors. Base pay is one part of Fitchs total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, longterm incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch. #J-18808-Ljbffr