Visual Design Associate Manager

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and help shape the visual design direction on engagements from concept through 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.
• Execute and shape the aesthetic language, design system, and visual output across touchpoints and program phase outputs such as research, strategy, and UX, with a strong command of craft and attention to detail.
• Hands-on and self-directed: 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.
• Document and share how AI tools are changing your workflow, contributing to the practice’s evolving understanding of AI-enabled visual design.
• Support the development of proposals and case studies by contributing project work, process documentation, and design narratives that showcase our visual design capabilities.
• Stay attuned to internal needs, client needs, and creative opportunities on your engagements, flagging potential areas for deeper work or expanded scope to your lead.
• Support and informally mentor junior team members, sharing feedback, creative references, and ways of working that help them grow their visual craft.

Requirements

• 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.
• Comfortably use AI tools in your visual design practice, from concept generation and mood-boarding to rapid iteration, and open to evolving AI-enabled ways of working.
• Recent hands-on experience in 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in visual design, visual communications, graphic design, fine art, or a related creative field.
• Experience contributing to visual design engagements end-to-end, from creative concepting and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• Experience providing feedback and informal guidance to junior designers, with a growing ability to help others develop their craft and creative confidence.
• Experience working in agile and cross-functional environments, collaborating with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Grounded in user experience (UX) principles that inform your visual design decisions, understanding how design guides users intuitively while expressing a coherent brand point of view.
• Experience contributing to scalable design systems that ensure visual consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• Comfort using AI tools in your visual design practice, from concept generation and mood-boarding to rapid iteration, and openness to evolving AI-enabled ways of working.
• Recent hands-on experience in design tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and relevant motion, illustration, or AI design tools.
• Experience with communication skills and developing client presence; ability to present design rationale and contribute to creative discussions with stakeholders.

Compensation

The annual salary range for this role is $73,800 to $218,800, depending on various factors including location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive 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. For more information, visit our benefits page.

Requesting an Accommodation

If you are hired and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. We also provide 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.