Middle Graphic Designer (6 months)

Location: Ukraine

Department: Mastercard Team

Our client is a leading financial institution focused on digital innovation and customer-centric solutions.
We are seeking a Middle Graphic Designer for a 6-month project role to strengthen client’s team in producing high-volume product graphics for the banking app, used daily by millions of people. Visual style and brand guidelines are already established; your mission is to design scalable, high-quality visual assets following existing direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Graphic Design System Development: Expand, refine, and systematize iconography and illustration libraries.
• Product Asset Creation: Design custom vector icon sets, 2D/3D and raster illustrations, interface graphics, and onboarding visuals.
• Visual Research: Build moodboards, reference collections, and storyboards to explore visual concepts.
• Figma Asset Management: Maintain organized component libraries with variables and variants for seamless handoff to product designers and developers.
• Technical Handoff & Optimization: Export assets in required formats (SVG, Lottie, PNG), optimize file sizes, and ensure full compatibility with Light and Dark modes.
• In-App Visuals: Create graphic assets for banners, push notifications, and touchpoints.

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years in graphic design, focusing on digital product assets.
• Portfolio: Proven track record of vector/raster illustrations and icon systems created for digital products (mandatory upon application).
• AI Tool Integration: Practical experience leveraging AI tools and Figma plugins (e.g., Figma Weave, generative AI tools) to speed up graphic generation and processing.
• Icon Fonts: End-to-end experience with icon fonts, from drawing to building and delivering font files to engineering.
• Guideline Compliance: Ability to work within tight brand guidelines while maintaining visual consistency across large asset packs.
• Technical Precision: Pixel-perfect attention to detail, grids, line weight consistency, and vector node optimization.
• Software Stack: Advanced proficiency in Figma (components, variants, libraries), Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Ownership: Ability to drive tasks end-to-end, from initial sketch to polished UI components and production-ready exports.
• Feedback-Oriented: Comfortable with iterative design reviews and incorporating feedback.

Nice to Have:

• Basic-to-intermediate 2D animation skills (After Effects / Lottie) to bring icons and illustrations to life.
• Experience with 3D graphics tools (e.g., Blender).
• Previous experience in fintech, banking, or other high-load products.