$193K - 208K a year
Lead visual design across multiple products and platforms, create compelling data visualizations and UI components, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive design consistency and research.
8+ years in visual design with expertise in 2D/3D design, design systems, advanced design tools, cross-functional collaboration, and experience delivering strategic design programs.
Join to apply for the Lead Visual Designer role at AquentJoin to apply for the Lead Visual Designer role at AquentGet AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.Lead Visual Designer –Interviews = AugustStart = October 1st, 2025Duration = 6 months with a possible extensionThis is a fully remote role, candidates must be located in the Pacific time zone.We’re looking for a Lead Visual Designer, with a solid online portfolio of relevant work, to join our team and help redefine how we visualize the data behind our experiences, and express value back to our customers through engaging, visually compelling insights. As a Lead IC in an organization consisting of multiple teams across Australia, North America, and India, you will work with cross functional partners, over a broad range of products and surfaces, to find new ways to visually tell our story, and our customer’s stories, through static and animated data visualization and UI components, creation flows or setup wizards, micro-interactions (buttons, likes, stars, check boxes, et al), product illustration, splash screens, first run, app launch, and other experiences.ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will:Elevate the visual expression of the Teamwork Platform and provide a clear and actionable opinion for why, where, and when we implement for impact across our offerings.Be accountable for delivering high-quality design solutions and outcomes across multiple work-streams, products, and/or platforms while understanding the complex relationships between various products to drive better design outcomesPrioritize multiple project/program plans, making decisions about priorities, timing, and resources while consistently displaying mastery of tasks and processesClearly define and communicate project or program goals and offer consistent coaching to others to adjust priorities or timelines as needed.Understand and use advanced layouts and grids to create visually appealing, functional and user-friendly designsTake initiative in merging different design elements into a unified system, ensuring consistency in branding and user experience across platformsIndependently understand, interpret, and apply visual design to a product or service experience, ensuring that the aesthetics align with objectives and user needs.Adapting and refine existing systems and architectures to create efficient and effective experiences.Accountable for driving formative and summative research planning at a program/portfolio level, including long-term studies, which helps in prioritizing research execution to align with strategic business goals.Identify actionable, opinionated insights and design recommendations, and drive the coordinated implementation of design improvements based on these research recommendations.Participate in and help drive design reviews and be a design craft leader and coach to other designers to help ensure consistent and cohesive experiencesIdentify success metrics ensuring design solutions continue to deliver customer valueCollaborate with some of the industry’s smartest (and nicest) people. You’ll work with Engineers, Product Managers, Content Designers, Researchers, Marketing Experts, and Analysts to advocate for the user experience in our products and ship high-quality workQualificationsYour background:8+ years of 2D and 3D visual design experience across complex, data dense, and/or enterprise-level product design and branding contextsExperience in creating and delivering strategic org wide design programs which impact multiple delivery teamsExperience in end-to-end UX/product design to design impactful solutions to challenging problemsPassion for story-telling, the ability to bring design direction to life with compelling narrativeExperience balancing customer needs with business goals, market viability, and technical feasibilityFacilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills: you can demonstrate the ability to integrate the work of multiple teams, solicit and synthesize feedback, and facilitate design discussions that lead company wide outcomes and positively influence future delivery roadmaps.Experience in design systems, the ability to identify common components required to support a wide array of customer use cases.Experience measuring success with qualitative and quantitative methodsExperience improving process and methodology to increase product value, team velocity and accelerate adoption of new capabilitiesHigh level of proficiency with industry standard design tools: Figma, Creative Cloud, C4D or Blender, Redshift or Octane, etc.Learn-it-all mindset. Eagerness to learn and challenge yourself in the face of a fast changing design industry landscape.Nice-to-have: prototyping, motion design, traditional animation, video editing, or compositing skills.The target hiring compensation range for this role is $93 to $100 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.About Aquent TalentAquent 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. 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This job posting was last updated on 9/11/2025