# Visual Designer, Web

**Company:** [Vercel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vercel)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Brand Design
**Salary:** $208k – $312k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Visual Design, Motion Design, 3d, illustration, brand systems, web design, Typography, Interaction Design, Design Systems, React, Tailwind, Next.js
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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