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VercelVercelUnited States

Visual Designer, Web

Visual Designer responsible for defining the creative direction and visual language for Vercel's web properties (vercel.com, nextjs.org), product launches, and brand experiences. Requires 8+ years experience, exceptional visual craft across motion, 3D, illustration and systems thinking, with shipped web work.

208k – 312k/yr
Remote8+ YOEBrand Design

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Define the visual language of Vercel's most-seen surfaces (vercel.com, nextjs.org, product launches, and Ship) and set a creative direction the whole team builds from.
  • Create memorable moments: hero animations, launch films, event environments, and brand-partnership work that reaches across screen and physical space.
  • Own the creative vision end to end, from the first spark of a concept to the finished result shipped on the real web, alongside design engineers.
  • Set the craft bar for typography, motion, and detail that make a page unmistakably Vercel.
  • Move fluidly across mediums including web, motion, illustration, 3D, and identity.
  • Influence Geist and shared patterns through work good enough to become the standard.

About You (Requirements)

  • Distinctive eye and original ideas with exceptional visual design instincts and creativity.
  • Portfolio spanning brand systems and work across multiple digital and physical mediums, anchored by strong, shipped web work.
  • 8+ years of design experience.
  • Meaningful hands-on range across several of: motion, 3D, illustration, environmental and event design, and interaction.
  • Systems-minded: design components and patterns, not one-offs, and think about how each choice fits a broader system.
  • Experience shaping launch moments, events, or brand-partnership surfaces under real deadlines.
  • Thrive collaborating with engineers and understand the web as a medium (layouts, buildability, design to code).
  • Comfortable in a technology-driven environment; experience with developer, B2B, or SaaS products is a plus.
  • Self-starter and egoless collaborator who takes and gives feedback well.
  • Familiar with Vercel, with working knowledge or experience preferred.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Can prototype or bring ideas to life in code (React / Tailwind / Next.js).
  • Have contributed to a design system at scale.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Mentorship and events to build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • Gear needed for your role and a WFH budget.

Skills

Visual DesignMotion Design3dillustrationbrand systemsweb designTypographyInteraction DesignDesign SystemsReactTailwindNext.js

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