Visual Design Associate Manager

Benefits and culture

Join on-site in Detroit, MI with Accenture Song, embedded in Accenture's Design & Digital Products practice. This environment emphasizes shaping visual design direction and design systems across engagements, mentoring teammates, and leveraging AI-enabled workflows to accelerate concepting and production. The salary range is USD 68,300 to 218,800 annually. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. The role also supports ongoing learning, active participation in the Visual Design Craft community, and opportunities to grow as a trusted creative voice.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and help shape the visual design direction on engagements from concept through delivery, ensuring quality, aesthetic cohesion, and timely progress.
• Translate briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into compelling visual executions, developing and defending an original visual point of view.
• Produce high quality work across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital experiences with strong craft and attention to detail.
• Take ownership of your workstream, make purposeful design decisions, and deliver production-ready output with minimal redirection.
• Utilize AI tools actively in your workflow to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, contributing to the team’s evolving AI-enabled practices.
• Engage confidently in client and stakeholder conversations, clearly communicating design rationale and building your presence as a trusted creative voice.
• Document and share how AI tools influence workflows, contributing to the practice’s evolving understanding of AI-enabled visual design.
• Support proposals and case studies by contributing project work, process documentation, and design narratives that showcase visual design capabilities.
• Stay attuned to internal and client needs, flagging potential areas for deeper work or expanded scope to your lead.
• Provide informal mentorship to junior team members, sharing feedback, references, and approaches that help others grow their visual craft.
• Be an active and engaged member of the Visual Design Craft community, contributing to shared resources and ongoing discipline development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Visual Design spanning a range of industries, brand types, platforms, and visual contexts.
• 2+ years contributing to visual design engagements end-to-end, from creative concepting and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• 2+ years producing brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI with a strong and developing visual voice.
• 2+ years delivering high-fidelity visual work with pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
• Experience providing feedback and informal guidance to junior designers, with growing ability to help others develop their craft and confidence.
• Experience working in agile and cross-functional environments, collaborating with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists.
• Grounding in UX principles that inform visual design decisions and express 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 workflows.
• Recent hands-on experience with 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.
• Bonus points if you have:
• Interest or developing fluency in adjacent areas such as brand strategy, service design, content design, or self-directed skill expansion.
• 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.
• You are beginning to build an external presence through publishing creative POVs or sharing work publicly.

Technologies

• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• AI tools