Principal Visual & Emerging Designer (grade 12)

About the role

NTT DATA is seeking a Principal Visual & Emerging Designer to join our team. As an Experience Designer, you’ll become part of our growing design practice, helping Launch by NTT DATA create best-in-class digital customer, employee, and user experiences. You’ll support initiatives, large and small, to define cross-channel experience strategies and user experience designs that embrace the intersection of people, process, business, and technology.

Responsibilities

• Bring big-picture strategic thinking to how an engagement is framed, then deliver the premium visual work that brings it to life
• Own hands-on delivery of premium visual design work on priority client engagements, setting and defending the visual quality bar for the project
• Lead visual direction and critique across designers and disciplines on your engagements, raising the bar on craft for everyone around you
• Use storytelling, prototypes, and direction-setting to help sell ideas, build excitement, and secure buy-in during client conversations and pursuits
• Partner closely with product managers, strategy leads, and engineering to translate visual decisions into usable, feasible, on-brand solutions
• Bring AI and emerging design tools into discovery, ideation, and production work with sound judgment on quality, accuracy, and accessibility, and share what’s working with the broader team
• Coach designers on craft, presentation, and storytelling through critique and day-to-day collaboration

Requirements

• 10+ years of work experience as a visual designer, product designer, or equivalent role
• 10+ years familiarity with common design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Sketch, Miro, etc.
• Bachelor’s and/or graduate degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 10+ years with Portfolio demonstrating examples of work product and process, and evidence of both strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• 10+ years demonstrated experience leading visual direction on individual client engagements

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong portfolio and experience including:
  • Art direction and creative concepting
  • Creating and implementing design systems
  • Compelling visual design across any screen size or form factor
  • Realistic and interactive prototypes
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal/written) to present complex technical concepts to non-technical individuals, using persuasion and tact in orchestrating design objectives and direction
  • Experience translating visual and craft decisions into a clear business rationale that clients and stakeholders can act on
  • Technical feasibility understanding and ability to communicate successfully with engineering
  • Experience with inclusive and accessible design practices
  • Independently drive the design review cycle and align on design requirements/decisions with stakeholders
  • Comfort operating across the full arc of a project, from framing the problem through shipping the polished execution
  • Ability to multi-task and stay deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within allotted timeframes
  • Growing fluency with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools, with sound judgment evaluating AI-generated output and curiosity to adopt them responsibly into everyday workflows
  • Experience creating detailed, structured design specifications that hand off cleanly to engineering, especially valuable if you’ve worked with distributed or offshore development teams

Ideal mindset

• T-shaped: You move fluidly across strategy, execution, and storytelling, going deep on craft while staying connected to why it matters
• Human-centered: You prioritize human-centered design philosophy and best practices in all your design activities
• A practical creative: You enjoy solving complex problems creatively but are practical in your solutions, realizing the many constraints that may impede the “ideal”
• Flexible work style: You work equally well in a collaborative, team-based environment as you do independently
• Collaborator: You work harmoniously with others, exemplify unity in purpose, and avoid competitive or combative attitudes
• Independent: You have all the skills necessary to solve any problem, accomplish any activity, and run any type of project without oversight
• Initiative taker: You go the extra mile, lend help when you can, and show up for your teammates
• Mentor: You share your knowledge, help up-skill your coworkers, and foster an inclusive and learning-focused culture on the design team
• Storyteller: You use visuals and prototypes to build client trust and guide decision-making

Pay

For US-based candidates, the target compensation range for this role is $135,405 – $250,750 USD, reflecting the minimum and maximum across all US locations. For Canada-based candidates, the target range is $122,000 – $187,000 CAD, reflecting Toronto/Vancouver market data. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

Benefits

US-based employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, a 401(k) with company match, and paid time off. Canada-based employees are eligible for extended health and dental coverage, a retirement savings plan with company matching, and paid time off. Additional voluntary or legally-required benefits may apply.

Schedule

Remote — United States or Canada; Toronto or Vancouver preferred for Canada-based candidates. Occasional client travel may be required.