Infographic Designer

Why you should join us:

We’re a small startup working like mad to disrupt a multi-billion dollar financial industry and cut out tens of thousands of inefficient middle-men. The company is named FeeFighters, and we are like Kayak or LendingTree for business financial services.

Business owners hate shopping for financial services, such as credit card processing, because the products are complicated, the shopping process takes a long time and the fine print makes it difficult to get a good deal. At FeeFighters we make shopping for business financial services as easy as buying a plane ticket and save our customers lots of money.

We have users, investors, partners and a product that our customers love. We pay ourselves decent salaries, are generous with equity and we enjoy a fun and stimulating work environment.

FeeFighters has an exciting future, and the team is growing. We need a talented designer who can help us convey complex topics using simple, beautiful graphics. Great design is worth its weight in gold, we know that… so we’re always on the lookout for amazing designers who can knock our socks off.

200 S. Wacker Dr., 15th Floor
Chicago, IL, 60606

How To Apply:

Send us an email with your resume, some examples of your work, and some basic information about why this is the ideal job for you.

No need to write a novel, we just want to get a sense for how you think, and provide a good launching-off place for further discussion.

For more details, see How To Apply below.

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Our description of you:

You live to visualize data. When you discover rich new data-sets, you can’t help thinking about the different ways that you could bring them to life in design. You hang out on InformationIsBeautiful, and look forward to checking out FlowingData each morning. You take pride in being able dig into the most complex topics, extract an essential message, and present it in a beautiful manner that can be understood at-a-glance. Your graphics are works of art… but Tufte would be jealous of their organization and clarity.

You’ll be joining a small design & development team on a part-time basis, but you’ll play a key role in our marketing efforts over the next several months. As the company grows, there will be innumerable opportunities to grow this job beyond infographics. We can always use more design talent on-board, so if you impress us, this could easily turn into a full-time gig. You’ll have ownership of a variety of infographic projects, working alongside our chief designer and the rest of the marketing team.

If you’re a Chicago native: great, we should grab some coffee! However, we have a distributed design team… so we’re already used to working with smart people from all over the world. We’re looking for the most talented designer we can find, so the only requirement is that you are a self-starter who is comfortable working remotely.

How to apply:

If you think that you are the perfect candidate for this job… get in touch with us. At the very least, send an email with your resume, some examples of your work, and some basic information about why this is the ideal job for you.

Don’t have a deep design portfolio or resume to show off?
That’s OK… We need good designers, and we don’t care where they come from, what school they went to, etc. Here’s a couple of things that we would find really interesting:

  • Take a look at this infographic we did recently. How would you improve it? What problems do you see in its execution?
  • Find a complex topic and take 5 minutes to sketch out an idea for an infographic that explains some aspect of it. This should be a back-of-the-envelope sketch… something very rough that we could quickly evaluate and give a thumbs-up/thumbs-down on. (bonus points for using 37Signals “Draft” iPad app…)
  • Take the above idea, and spend some time in Photoshop producing a rough mockup. Keep track of your time, and limit yourself to an hour or less. Explain how long it took you, and why you chose to stop where you did. Explain where you would have taken it if you had worked for another 4 hours.

Thanks! We look forward to hearing from you soon!
— Josh, CTO & Co-Founder of FeeFighters