Content Producer, Audience Engagement

Morningstar • Chicago, IL

11d • $83,750 - $122,850 • Hybrid

About The Position

Morningstar’s editorial team helps investors make informed decisions through independent research and accessible investing insights. The team reaches individual investors and financial advisors across Morningstar.com, newsletters, social media, video, Apple News, and other platforms. The Content Producer, Audience Engagement will create and adapt investing coverage for these and emerging editorial formats, identifying compelling story ideas and translating them into effective formats for specific audiences.

This hands-on role may involve creating social graphics and carousels, writing short-form video scripts and appearing in videos, developing newsletter content, and collaborating with designers on visual storytelling. The successful candidate will combine editorial judgment, visual creativity, and an understanding of digital audiences. They will work with investing content, communicate complex ideas clearly, and experiment with new storytelling approaches. An understanding of investing, markets, and personal finance is expected, along with eagerness to deepen that knowledge.

The role is part of the Audience Engagement team within Editorial and collaborates with editors, writers, designers, video producers, research analysts, and Morningstar’s corporate social media team. It is based in Morningstar’s Chicago office under a hybrid policy of four days onsite and one day remote each week.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in digital journalism, editorial content, social media, audience development, content marketing, or a related field.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, including the ability to make complex ideas approachable.
• Demonstrated experience creating content in multiple digital formats, such as social posts, graphics, newsletters, or social media video.
• Strong visual instincts and experience using Canva or a comparable design platform.
• Experience developing short-form video content and appearing on camera.
• Strong editorial judgment and ability to identify an interesting, useful, or surprising angle within a larger story.
• Ability to use performance data from platforms such as Parse.ly, Sprinklr, and Google Analytics to make content decisions and report performance to stakeholders.
• Genuine interest in investing, markets, and personal finance.
• Collaborative working style and experience partnering with writers, editors, designers, and other creative colleagues.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and balance daily production with longer-term creative projects.
• A portfolio demonstrating cross-platform content creation, including examples of visual, social, newsletter, and/or on-camera video work.
• Submit a link to a portfolio or reel to be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Previous financial journalism or investing-content experience is strongly preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Develop social media graphics, carousels, charts, and other visual storytelling formats using Canva and Morningstar’s design systems.
• Collaborate with Morningstar designers on more elaborate graphics, templates, and visual storytelling projects.
• Write concise, engaging scripts for short-form social and editorial videos.
• Appear in videos when appropriate to explain investing news and concepts accessibly.
• Identify stories, data points, charts, and investing concepts suited to visual, social, video, or newsletter treatment.
• Translate complex financial topics into clear, accurate, useful, and engaging content for individual investors.
• Help manage Morningstar’s editorial presence across key social platforms, including planning, publishing, and optimizing content for each audience.
• Write and edit newsletter introductions and other original newsletter content about important investing stories.
• Contribute ideas for recurring franchises, video concepts, visual explainers, newsletter features, and platform-specific storytelling formats.
• Use audience data and platform insights to evaluate performance, identify opportunities, and improve future content.
• Maintain Morningstar’s standards for editorial independence, accuracy, voice, and visual consistency across formats.
• Collaborate with Morningstar’s corporate social media team, contributing editorial content to owned corporate channels.

Benefits

• 100% 401(k) match up to 6% of salary.
• Stock ownership potential.
• Company-provided life insurance equal to 1x salary plus commission.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions of up to $500–$2,000 annually for specific plans and coverages.
• Additional medical wellness incentives of up to $300–$600 annually.
• Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance.
• Trust-Based Time Off.
• Six-week paid sabbatical program.
• Six-week paid family caregiving leave.
• Paid parental leave of 8–24 weeks.
• Adoption assistance.
• Leadership coaching and formal mentorship opportunities.
• Annual flex stipend of $1,000 for personal education and well-being expenses.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Charitable matching gifts program.
• Dollars for Doers volunteer program.
• Paid volunteering days.
• More than 15 employee resource and affinity groups.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed