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Creative Agency Senior Designer

Accenture · Albany, New York Metropolitan Area · 3 mo ago
Art & Creative$70k–$155k/yrFull-time

About the role

As a Senior Designer, you will play a key role in shaping and evolving brand identities, design systems, and visual ecosystems across touchpoints. This role requires exceptional art direction skills and a strong command of AI-driven content creation, particularly in shaping photographic and image-based visual systems within scalable brand platforms.

  • Develop high-level creative concepts with minimal oversight, bringing fresh, unexpected ideas to the table.
  • Lead the development of concept-driven brand identities and scalable design systems.
  • Define forward-thinking art direction frameworks that guide photography, image-making, and content ecosystems across brand platforms.
  • Translate strategic narratives into distinctive, ownable visual languages that flex across digital, physical, and content environments.
  • Establish clear visual territories through mood systems, reference frameworks, compositional principles, and narrative guidelines.
  • Collaborate across disciplines—including strategy, copywriting, motion, and technology—to build holistic brand experiences.
  • Distinguish between campaign-driven design and long-term brand ecosystems, adapting your approach accordingly.
  • Create multi-faceted design deliverables, from brand audits and identity systems to retail experiences and CRM campaigns.
  • Balance multiple projects and clients, delivering compelling creative solutions on tight deadlines.
  • Create inspiring, provocative, and disruptive work that elevates brands and engages audiences.
  • Leverage AI-powered content creation tools to concept, visualize, and prototype brand directions and scalable content systems.
  • Help define best practices for integrating AI into the brand design and conceptual development process in a craft-driven and responsible way.
  • Elevate the team’s art direction capabilities, particularly in photography and AI-enabled image creation.

    Responsibilities

    • Act as a champion and guardian of clients’ brand identities, ensuring consistency and creative excellence.
    • Develop high-level creative concepts with minimal oversight, bringing fresh, unexpected ideas to the table.
    • Lead the development of concept-driven brand identities and scalable design systems.
    • Define forward-thinking art direction frameworks that guide photography, image-making, and content ecosystems across brand platforms.
    • Translate strategic narratives into distinctive, ownable visual languages that flex across digital, physical, and content environments.
    • Establish clear visual territories through mood systems, reference frameworks, compositional principles, and narrative guidelines.
    • Collaborate across disciplines—including strategy, copywriting, motion, and technology—to build holistic brand experiences.
    • Distinguish between campaign-driven design and long-term brand ecosystems, adapting your approach accordingly.
    • Create multi-faceted design deliverables, from brand audits and identity systems to retail experiences and CRM campaigns.
    • Balance multiple projects and clients, delivering compelling creative solutions on tight deadlines.
    • Create inspiring, provocative, and disruptive work that elevates brands and engages audiences.
    • Leverage AI-powered content creation tools to concept, visualize, and prototype brand directions and scalable content systems.
    • Help define best practices for integrating AI into the brand design and conceptual development process in a craft-driven and responsible way.
    • Elevate the team’s art direction capabilities, particularly in photography and AI-enabled image creation.

      Requirements

      • A portfolio that demonstrates concept-driven brand identity work, strong art direction thinking, and the ability to build cohesive visual systems that scale across touchpoints.
      • 6+ years of experience in an agency, design studio, or related creative field.
      • Deep understanding of the creative process—beyond just campaign execution and production design.
      • Ability to work independently while contributing meaningfully to a collaborative team environment.
      • Strong design sensibility, with an ability to craft visually stunning and strategically sound work.
      • Expert proficiency in Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
      • Proven experience developing brand identities and design systems, not just campaign-level creative.
      • Strong command of photographic language, visual storytelling, and contemporary content aesthetics.
      • Demonstrated proficiency with AI-powered content, prompting and image generation platforms such as Nano Bananna, Runway, Firefly, or similar, with the ability to integrate them into scalable brand and content workflows.
      • Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
      • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work seamlessly with strategists, producers, developers, and writers.
      • Experience in motion design or 3D is a plus.

        Qualifications

        • A basic qualification is a portfolio that demonstrates concept-driven brand identity work, strong art direction thinking, and the ability to build cohesive visual systems that scale across touchpoints.
        • A preferred qualification is 6+ years of experience in an agency, design studio, or related creative field.
        • A preferred qualification is a deep understanding of the creative process—beyond just campaign execution and production design.
        • A preferred qualification is the ability to work independently while contributing meaningfully to a collaborative team environment.
        • A preferred qualification is a strong design sensibility, with an ability to craft visually stunning and strategically sound work.
        • A preferred qualification is expert proficiency in Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
        • A preferred qualification is proven experience developing brand identities and design systems, not just campaign-level creative.
        • A preferred qualification is strong command of photographic language, visual storytelling, and contemporary content aesthetics.
        • A preferred qualification is demonstrated proficiency with AI-powered content, prompting and image generation platforms such as Nano Bananna, Runway, Firefly, or similar, with the ability to integrate them into scalable brand and content workflows.
        • A preferred qualification is outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
        • A preferred qualification is strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work seamlessly with strategists, producers, developers, and writers.
        • A preferred qualification is experience in motion design or 3D.

          Skills

          • Concept-driven brand identity work.
          • Strong art direction thinking.
          • Building cohesive visual systems that scale across touchpoints.
          • Strategic, systematic, and compelling design solutions.
          • Forward-thinking art direction frameworks.
          • Photographic and image-making.
          • Content ecosystems.
          • Clear visual territories.
          • Mood systems, reference frameworks, compositional principles, and narrative guidelines.
          • Collaboration across disciplines.
          • Storytelling, branding, and systems thinking.
          • Independent work.
          • Meaningful contribution to a collaborative team environment.
          • Visual stunning and strategically sound work.
          • Expert proficiency in Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
          • Proven experience developing brand identities and design systems.
          • Strong command of photographic language, visual storytelling, and contemporary content aesthetics.
          • Demonstrated proficiency with AI-powered content, prompting and image generation platforms.
          • Outstanding organizational skills.
          • Attention to detail.
          • Ability to manage multiple priorities.
          • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
          • Experience in motion design or 3D.

          Benefits

          Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/01/2026.

          Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

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