Visual Designer

Join a pioneering technology company at the forefront of connecting billions worldwide, where innovation drives our mission to build meaningful connections. We are seeking a visionary Senior Visual Designer to profoundly impact the visual direction of in-product experiences for our flagship platform. This is your chance to shape the creative identity of widely used products, crafting dynamic and cohesive visual systems that resonate with users globally and elevate the brand’s expression across every touchpoint.

• Role Responsibilities:**
• Lead the creative development of visual elements and systems, collaborating with diverse design groups including product designers, art directors, communication designers, illustrators, animators, and external partners.
• Direct and execute the design of creative assets across various styles and mediums.
• Create sketches, storyboards, prototypes, and/or design specifications essential for guiding art and product development.
• Deliver delightful and strategically impactful products that showcase a high level of craft and quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, effectively balancing stakeholder needs, and translating complex requirements into simple, compelling solutions.
• Clearly articulate concepts and vision to cross-functional teams and vendors, driving towards shared milestones.
• Inspire and sustain a culture of excellence, with a strong focus on craft and quality in all work.
• Partner with product, research, and engineering teams to identify opportunities for product enhancements that amplify brand expression and elevate overall work quality.
• Lead the development of culturally sensitive and appropriate creative for multiple global markets, ensuring relevance and utility.
• Align on key priorities with cross-functional teams to establish shared goals, milestones, and objectives.
• Must-Have Qualifications:**
• 8+ years of experience encompassing interaction design and visual design, with demonstrated proficiency across various platforms.
• 8+ years of experience collaborating cross-functionally with teams such as product, design, engineering, marketing, and user research.
• Proven experience building and shipping applications or software across a variety of platforms.
• Experience leading design direction across multidisciplinary teams, with the ability to identify visual design opportunities and elevate the overall product experience.
• Ability to clearly and succinctly represent work to broad cross-functional stakeholders, including product teams, articulating goals and concepts effectively.
• Adept at flexing thinking from high-level strategy to creative execution, user experience, and tactical details.
• Strong understanding of when to approach projects from a high-level overview versus zooming into intricate details.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal, and communication skills, capable of clearly and persuasively communicating complex, sometimes abstract, concepts. You can explain the “whys” behind decisions and direction, are open to new perspectives, and can represent your point of view with conviction.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly incorporate design feedback.
• A track record of fostering an inspiring and inclusive team/work culture, empowering all team members to have a voice.
• Comprehensive knowledge of design principles related to design systems, brand, marketing, and publishing, coupled with an understanding of UX design, digital product design, information hierarchy, user-flow, and typography.
• Experience coordinating, directing, and providing creative direction to contractors, agencies, and in-house designers.
• Successful in fast-paced environments, managing multiple dependencies, demonstrating independent time management, task prioritization, flexibility, and proactively identifying and solving problems.
• Proven ability to operate independently, exhibit creative leadership, maintain detail-orientation, and deliver highly organized results.
• Experience bringing clarity to complex and sometimes ambiguous projects and processes.
• Nice-to-Have Qualifications:**
• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools
• About Aquent Talent:** Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
  
  

Client Description

Based in Menlo Park, California, this top social media company builds technologies that help people connect. Their mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

With a culture of constantly iterating, solving problems and working together to connect people all over the world, it’s important that their workforce reflects the diversity of the people they serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and points of view helps make better decisions, build better products and create better experiences for everyone.

Working Here, You’ll

• Be part of their mission of community building
• Work on the most visible apps and services in the social media industry
• Work in an Agile environment, in constant iteration and problem-solving mode
• Have a hand in developing products that empower more than 3 billion people around the world to share ideas, offer support and make a difference
  
  

Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits

Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.