Visual Design Associate Manager

At Accenture Song in New York, this Visual Design Associate Manager shapes visual design direction and design systems across engagements, delivering high-quality work, mentoring junior designers, and leveraging AI-enabled workflows. The onsite role blends hands-on craft with leadership, partnering with clients and cross-functional teams to elevate brand experiences.

Key aspects of the role are organized below.

Responsibilities

• Help define and steer the visual design direction across engagements from concept through delivery, ensuring quality, cohesive aesthetics, and timely execution.
• 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 meticulous craft and attention to detail.
• Operate as a hands-on, self-directed contributor who owns their workstream and delivers production-ready output with minimal redirection.
• Actively incorporate AI tools into your workflow to speed concepting, iteration, and production, while contributing to the team's evolving AI-enabled practices.
• Engage confidently in client and stakeholder conversations, articulating design rationale and growing your presence as a trusted creative voice.
• Document and share how AI tools are evolving your workflow, helping the practice build an 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 visual design capabilities.
• Monitor internal and client needs and creative opportunities on engagements, flagging potential areas for deeper work or expanded scope to your lead.
• Mentor junior team members informally, sharing feedback, references, and ways of working that help them grow their visual craft.
• Be an active member of the Visual Design Craft community, contributing to shared resources, discussions, and the ongoing development of the discipline.

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 that demonstrate 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 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.
• Grounding in UX principles that informs visual design decisions and expresses 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 visual design practice, from concept generation and mood-boarding to rapid iteration, with 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.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to develop client presence; capable of presenting design rationale and contributing to creative discussions with stakeholders.

Technologies

Technologies: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, AI design tools

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

Bonus points if you have

• 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
• You are building an external presence through publishing creative POVs, participating in design community events, or sharing work publicly