Visual Design Associate Manager

Accenture Song in Seattle invites a Visual Design Associate Manager to steer the visual design direction across engagements, shaping design systems and craft while mentoring teammates. This onsite role blends hands-on design leadership with AI-enabled workflows, offering a salary range of USD 68,300 to 218,800 per year.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and shape the visual design direction on engagements from concept through delivery, ensuring quality, cohesive aesthetics, and timely milestones.
• Translate briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into compelling visual executions, developing and defending an original visual point of view.
• Deliver high-quality work across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital experiences with meticulous craft.
• Be hands-on and self-directed, owning your workstream, making deliberate design decisions, and delivering production-ready output with minimal redirection.
• Leverage AI tools in your workflow to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, contributing to evolving AI-enabled practices.
• Engage in client and stakeholder conversations, clearly articulating design rationale and building a trusted creative voice.
• Document and share how AI tools alter your workflow, contributing to the practice's evolving understanding of AI-enabled visual design.
• Support proposals and case studies by contributing project work, process notes, and design narratives that showcase visual design capabilities.
• Stay attuned to internal and client needs, identifying opportunities for deeper work or expanded scope and flagging them to the lead.
• Mentor junior team members informally, sharing feedback and references to help grow their visual craft.
• Be an active, engaged member of the Visual Design Craft community, contributing resources and participating in ongoing discipline development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Visual Design spanning a range of industries, brand types, platforms, and visual contexts.
• Experience contributing to visual design engagements end-to-end, from concept and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• Proven ability to produce brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI with a strong and developing visual voice.
• Deliver high-fidelity visual work with meticulous attention to detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
• Experience providing feedback and informal guidance to junior designers, helping others grow 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.
• Strong grounding in UX principles that informs visual design decisions, balancing intuitive user guidance with 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.
• Hands-on experience with design tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and relevant motion, illustration, or AI design tools.
• Strong communication skills with client presence; ability to present design rationale and contribute to creative discussions with stakeholders.

Technologies

• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Motion design tools
• Illustration tools
• 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 fluency in adjacent areas such as brand strategy, service design, or content design, or a self-directed expansion of skills
• Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives like ways of working, craft assets, onboarding, or community forums
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in visual design, visual communications, graphic design, fine art, or related field
• Experience in management consulting, a creative agency, or professional services
• Early-stage external presence through published creative POVs, design community events, or public sharing of work

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