Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems

Job Summary

We are a financial technology company building products that feel extraordinary to use. We are looking for a Staff Visual Designer to redefine and ship large, foundational improvements to Mercury's design language.

About the Role

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can see the whole UI system and knows how to evolve it at scale. You will 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. You will actively coach product designers on their craft, give direct feedback that raises the quality bar across both individual work and the design system itself, and partner with design systems designers and engineers to make sure visual decisions translate cleanly into scalable, maintainable components. You will represent design systems and visual craft in conversations with Brand, Engineering, and design leadership.

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.
• Set the craft bar for the design org: define what excellent looks like, and build the systems, guidelines, and references that make it repeatable.
• Actively 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.
• Not just taste, but 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, you’re 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 in a senior visual design role.
• Experience with design systems and scalable design practices.
• Experience with typography, color systems, and iconography at a product or brand scale.
• Experience with design tools and front-end prototyping with React.
• Experience with AI-assisted prototyping.
• 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 USDCanadian employees (any location): $216,200 - $270,200 CAD

Pay

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 USDCanadian employees (any location): $216,200 - $270,200 CAD

Schedule

Full-time position.