Freelance Sr. Designer

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.

Varo is looking for a freelance senior designer or art director to help our creative team.

W2 Contract Details:     

- 30 weeks (July 2025 - February 2026)   

- 40 hours/week    

- 9am-5pm PST

As a senior designer, you are a seasoned creative who loves to collaborate with art directors, copywriters, and other designers to bring a brand to life. You’re on top of industry trends but can incorporate your own unique creativity and lens on the work. You can develop compelling marketing creative that levels up our brand, help us grow customers — and keep them engaged.

• Collaborate with the marketing team to create compelling marketing creative that level-up our brand, help us grow customers — and keep them engaged
• Lead creative development from early concepting to final handoff, ensuring the work relates strongly to the briefs provided
• Partner with stakeholders to create compelling creative that clearly communicates Varo’s products and offering
• Collaborate with a team of art directors, writers, and designers to interpret our brand across various touch points including web, lifecycle and paid media
• Work closely with the Creative Director and Senior Art Director to develop and enhance the aesthetic of the brand and ensure all materials are designed and produced accordingly
• Create beautiful designs that build upon the library of assets we already have established, while looking for innovative ways to evolve how we use type, color, and photography
• Work with project management and stakeholders to gather feedback, and incorporate it quickly while meeting deadlines
• Partner with copywriters to develop creative that’s not only well-executed but strategically tells a story, too

• 6-9 years of design or art direction experience working within a creative team
• Design studio or ad agency experience is preferred, but not mandatory
• Must have a strong knowledge of web design, branding, typography, digital, print, and art direction as it pertains to photography, video, and motion graphics
• Organized and clean file management as you work within a brand library of components and collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Marketing
• Excellent skills with design software, primarily Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong presentation skills

We recognize not everyone will have all of these requirements. If you meet most of the criteria above and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you!

About Varo

Varo launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. We’re a new kind of bank – all-digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed around the modern American consumer. 

As the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020, we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products, insights, and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customer-first features, we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.

We are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Fintech 50, and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies across the country.

Varo. A bank for all of us.

Our Core Values

- Customers First

- Take Ownership

- Respect

- Stay Curious

- Make it Better

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Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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