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Visual Communication Design Lead

100k – 120kChicago, ILProduct DesignOnsite5+ YOE
Summary

Lead visual direction and guide multidisciplinary teams through complex design challenges, setting visual strategy across brand systems, interaction, and digital product design. Requires a strong portfolio, leadership experience, and fluency in Adobe Suite and Figma.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own the visual direction of engagements and lead multidisciplinary teams through all phases of the design process from early research and exploration through prototyping, refinement, and client-facing storytelling
  • Contribute across a diverse portfolio of work spanning brand, experience, interaction, digital product, and service design
  • Lead project teams and collaborate with multidisciplinary designers
  • Collaborate closely with clients, using storytelling and design to make complex ideas clear and actionable
  • Turn research and open-ended questions into visual systems and stories that build empathy for people and bring their experiences to life
  • Create and guide looks-like/works-like prototypes at different levels of fidelity to explore ideas and align teams
  • Support and grow other designers through thoughtful critique, collaboration, and hands-on craft leadership
  • Hold a high bar for visual quality while staying open to exploration, iteration, and learning
  • Champion visual communication as a powerful way to make ideas tangible and meaningful

Requirements

  • Relevant experience and/or educational background in visual communication, brand expression, interaction, and digital product design
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in graphic design, interaction design or an equivalent degree
  • Strong, versatile portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, visual storytelling, and leadership across complex work
  • Fluency in tools such as Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, with experience using motion and design prototyping tools
  • Comfort shaping and delivering client-facing narratives using tools like Google Slides and FigJam/Figma Slides
  • Ability to balance hands-on making with direction-setting and mentorship
  • Experience establishing and expressing brand identity—from strategy through execution—across systems, touchpoints, and mediums
  • Experience leading visual work across interaction and digital product experiences
  • Experience leading client work and multidisciplinary teams through complex, often ambiguous design challenges
  • Experience working across industries and project types, adapting craft to context and audience

Nice-to-Haves

  • Comfort with ambiguity—able to push work forward without having all the answers
  • Growth-oriented mindset embracing critique, experimentation, and learning through making
  • Proactive and accountable attitude

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary range: $100,000–$120,000 USD
  • Full-time position eligible for employee benefits
  • Commitment to equitable pay regardless of gender identity or race/ethnicity/cultural identity
Skills
Adobe Creative SuiteFigmaGraphic DesignVisual StorytellingBrand StrategyInteraction DesignDigital Product DesignMotion DesignPrototypingClient Storytelling
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