Visual Design Associate Manager

About the role

Accenture Song is a leading creative group focused on helping iconic brands reimagine products, services, and spaces through emerging technology. This role is within the Design & Digital Products practice, where you'll work closely with a team of specialists in various disciplines to deliver impactful solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and shape the visual design direction on engagements, from concept to delivery, ensuring quality, aesthetic cohesion, and adherence to project timelines.
• Think conceptually and translate briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into compelling visual executions, developing and defending an original visual point of view.
• Create high-quality visual design work across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital experiences, with a strong command of craft and attention to detail.
• Take ownership of your workstream, make considered and purposeful design decisions, and deliver production-ready output with minimal redirection.
• Use AI tools actively in your workflow to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, and contribute to the team’s evolving AI-enabled ways of working.
• Engage confidently in client and stakeholder conversations, communicating your design rationale clearly and beginning to develop your presence as a trusted creative voice.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Visual Design, spanning a range of industries, brand types, platforms, and visual contexts.
• Produce brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI that demonstrate a strong and developing visual voice.
• Deliver high-fidelity visual work with strong attention to detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
• Provide feedback and informal guidance to junior designers, with a growing ability to help others develop their craft and creative confidence.
• Collaborate with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists in agile and cross-functional environments to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Inform visual design decisions with UX principles, understanding how design guides users intuitively while expressing a coherent brand point of view.
• Develop scalable design systems that ensure visual consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• Comfortable using AI tools in your visual design practice, from concept generation to rapid iteration, and open to evolving AI-enabled ways of working.
• Experience with design tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and relevant motion, illustration, or AI design tools.
• Communicate design rationale effectively and contribute to creative discussions with stakeholders.

Bonus points

• Interest or developing fluency in adjacent areas such as brand strategy, service design, content design, or expanding your skillset in a self-directed way.
• Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives such as ways of working, craft assets, onboarding, or community forums.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in visual design, visual communications, graphic design, fine art, or a related creative field.
• Experience working in management consulting, a creative agency, or a professional services environment.
• External presence through publishing creative POV, participating in design community events, or sharing work publicly.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies based on factors including location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The annual salary range for this role is provided in the job posting.

Schedule

The role is available in multiple locations across the U.S., with varying annual salaries ranging from $68,300 to $218,800.

Benefits

Accenture offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. For more details, visit Accenture's Employee Benefits.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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California Residents

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