Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems
Design Foundations
The Design Foundations team at Mercury is dedicated to creating a robust design system that supports the development of exceptional user experiences. This team works closely with Brand, Product, and Engineering to ensure that visual elements are consistent, scalable, and aligned with Mercury's brand identity.
Responsibilities
- Redefine and ship large, foundational improvements to Mercury’s design language (things like type, color, and iconography) that scale beautifully across every product surface.
- Partner with Brand and other craft leaders to bring expressive moments into the product and set direction for how brand and product visual language work together.
- Define what excellent looks like, and build the systems, guidelines, and references that make it repeatable.
- Coach product designers on their craft, giving direct feedback that raises the quality bar across both individual work and the design system itself.
- Partner with design systems designers and engineers to make sure visual decisions translate cleanly into scalable, maintainable components.
- Represent design systems and visual craft in conversations with Brand, Engineering, and design leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in visual design, with deep expertise in typography, color systems, and iconography at a product or brand scale.
- A portfolio that shows range: foundational systems work as well as high-craft, expressive visual design.
- Conviction and language to articulate what makes something successful.
- A track record of coaching or mentoring other designers, with a clear point of view on what strong craft looks like and how to teach it.
- Systems thinking, comfortable balancing expressive visual design with the pragmatic needs of a scalable design system for a data-rich product.
- Strong stakeholder management, comfortable winning buy-in from executives and cross-functional leaders on high-visibility work, backed by conviction.
- Strong communication and presence: able to set direction, build alignment, and defend opinionated design decisions with both designers and engineers.
- Proficient in design tools and front-end prototyping with React; comfortable working closely with engineers on how visual systems get built and maintained in code.
- Affinity for AI-assisted prototyping.
- Motion design skills are a plus.
Qualifications
- Experience with design systems and visual craft.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and iconography.
- Experience with design tools and front-end prototyping with React.
- Comfortable working with engineers to ensure visual decisions translate into scalable, maintainable components.
- Experience with AI-assisted prototyping is a plus.
- Motion design skills are a plus.
Benefits
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
- US employees (any location): $228,700 - $285,900
- US Canadian employees (any location): $216,200 - $270,200 CAD
Pay
Base salary ranges for this role are the following:
- US employees (any location): $228,700 - $285,900
- US Canadian employees (any location): $216,200 - $270,200 CAD
Schedule
Full-time position.