Visual Design Manager

About the role

A Visual Design Manager who leads the visual design direction on engagements from concept through delivery, setting a high visual craft standard and fostering a culture of excellence. You will lead teams to bring visions to life, using AI tools to enhance creativity, and serve as a trusted client partner, guiding complex decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead visual design direction on internal and client engagements, ensuring design quality, aesthetic cohesion, and adherence to project timelines.
• Translate abstract briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into clear, compelling visual languages.
• Define and defend a high visual craft standard, directing the creation of brand identities, design systems, motion, typography, illustration, and digital experiences.
• Use AI tools to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, and model how these tools can enhance creative thinking.
• Present visual strategy and design rationale to senior client stakeholders, guiding creative decisions under pressure.
• Document how AI is changing visual design workflows and quantify its impact on delivery quality and team performance.
• Create case studies from your work and translate project learnings into clear, compelling thought leadership showcasing our visual design capabilities.
• Identify and shape new creative opportunities with existing clients, recognizing when a brand, design system, or experience challenge is an opening for deeper engagement, and partnering with account leads to build a compelling point of view around it.
• Manage, support, and mentor team members in their day-to-day work, helping them grow their visual craft, develop creative confidence, navigate challenges, and evolve as visual designers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Visual Design, spanning a range of industries, brand types, platforms, and visual contexts.
• 4+ years: Leading visual design engagements end-to-end, from creative concepting and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• Directing the creation of brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI that demonstrate a strong and consistent visual voice.
• Producing and directing high-fidelity visual work with exceptional attention to detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
• 3+ years: Directly managing or coaching visual designers, with demonstrated ability to develop contributors into stronger, more independent creative practitioners.
• Working in agile and cross-functional environments, collaborating with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Delivering high-caliber visual design work that has shipped at scale, solved complex product or brand challenges, and driven measurable impact across customer experiences and business goals.
• Experience in grounding visual design decisions with a deep understanding of user experience (UX).
• Experience building and contributing to scalable design systems that ensure visual consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• Experience embedding AI tools and workflows into visual design practices from concept generation and mood-boarding to rapid iteration and modeling AI-enabled ways of working for a team.
• Recent experience being hands-on in design tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Claude Design, and relevant motion, illustration tools, or AI design tools.
• Utilizing facilitation skills and creative presence; ability to present visual strategy and design rationale to senior client stakeholders and guide creative decisions under pressure.

Bonus Points

• Fluency in adjacent areas such as brand strategy, service design, content design, or expanding skillset in a self-directed way.
• Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives, including 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.
• Contributing to external thought leadership, such as publishing creative POV, speaking at events, or representing the practice in the broader design community.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, including the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

Schedule

This role is full-time.

Benefits

Accenture offers 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. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture.