Visual Design Lead

Accountabilities: • Lead the visual design direction across complex digital products, platforms, and experiences, ensuring a clear and cohesive creative vision from concept through execution.

• Lead, mentor, and provide creative direction to visual designers throughout the design process, establishing strong standards for quality and consistency.

• Build, evolve, and maintain scalable design systems and reusable UI components that support cohesive experiences across products and platforms.

• Translate broader product and platform goals into thoughtful, high-quality visual solutions that balance user needs, business objectives, and technical considerations.

• Partner closely with Product, UX, Engineering, and Creative teams to develop solutions that work effectively across complex digital ecosystems.

• Apply systems thinking across detailed UI execution while maintaining awareness of broader product, platform, and experience goals.

• Champion accessibility, usability, consistency, and visual quality throughout the design process and across final deliverables.

• Own projects from concept through execution, maintaining a strong visual direction while adapting to evolving requirements and constraints.

• Communicate design decisions clearly, explain trade-offs, and provide thoughtful rationale to stakeholders and clients.

• Review design work, establish direction, and deliver constructive feedback that strengthens consistency and quality across deliverables.

• Collaborate effectively within Agile, fast-paced, and distributed teams while contributing to a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous creative improvement.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience designing digital products and experiences across web, mobile, and responsive platforms.

• Proven experience leading and mentoring visual design teams, providing creative direction, and establishing design standards and processes.

• Strong expertise in creating, evolving, and maintaining scalable Design Systems and reusable UI components.

• Experience working across complex product ecosystems in close partnership with Product, UX, and Engineering teams.

• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to balance detailed UI execution with broader product, platform, and business objectives.

• Solid understanding of interaction design, accessibility, usability, and user-centered design principles.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate design decisions clearly, articulate trade-offs, and take ownership throughout the design lifecycle.

• Experience taking digital projects from concept through execution while maintaining high standards for visual quality, consistency, and usability.

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, align, and communicate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

• Comfortable working in Agile, fast-paced, remote environments where priorities can evolve quickly.

• Strong creative judgment, attention to detail, and a collaborative approach to problem-solving.

Benefits:

• Salary: $106,000–$135,000 USD, with placement within the range depending on experience, qualifications, specialization, market conditions, and other applicable factors.

• Work arrangement: Fully remote within the United States.

• Work environment: Collaborative, fast-paced, and distributed, with opportunities to work across multidisciplinary Product, UX, Engineering, and Creative teams.

• Growth: Opportunities to lead design direction, mentor designers, shape design practices, and contribute to continuous creative improvement.

• Location eligibility: This position is currently not available for hire or work in New Mexico or Hawaii.

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