As a Visual Design Associate Manager, you will steer visual design direction and design systems across engagements, mentor teammates, and integrate AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

Contribute to shaping the visual design direction on engagements, whether internal or client-facing, from concept through delivery, ensuring quality, cohesive aesthetics, and on-time milestones.
Conceptualize briefs and brand strategy, translating audience insights into compelling visuals while developing and defending an original visual point of view.
Create polished visual design across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital experiences, demonstrating craft and meticulous attention to detail.
Operate hands-on and autonomously: own your workstream, make deliberate design decisions, and deliver production-ready outputs with minimal direction.
Leverage AI tools within your workflow to speed concepting, iteration, and production, and contribute to the team's evolving AI-enabled practices.
Participate confidently in client and stakeholder discussions, articulating design rationale clearly and establishing a growing presence as a trusted creative voice.
Document and communicate how AI tools reshape your workflow, contributing to the practice’s evolving understanding of AI-driven visual design.
Contribute to proposals and case studies by adding project work, process documentation, and design narratives that highlight our visual design strengths.
Remain attuned to internal and client needs and creative opportunities on engagements, flagging potential areas for deeper work or expanded scope to your lead.
Provide informal mentorship to junior teammates, sharing feedback, references, and workflows that help elevate their visual craft.
Actively participate in the Visual Design Craft community, contributing resources, discussions, and ongoing discipline development.

Requirements

5+ years of visual design experience across diverse industries, brands, platforms, and contexts.
Experience delivering visual design engagements end-to-end, from concept and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
Proven ability to develop brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI with a strong and evolving visual voice.
Delivery of high-fidelity visuals with meticulous attention to detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
Experience providing feedback and informal guidance to junior designers, helping 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.
Strong grounding in UX principles that inform visual decisions, ensuring intuitive guidance 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 the visual design process, from concept generation and mood-boarding to rapid iteration, and openness to evolving AI-enabled workflows.
Recent hands-on experience with design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and relevant motion, illustration, or AI design tools.
Effective communication skills and the ability to develop client presence, including presenting design rationale and contributing to creative discussions with stakeholders.

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

Who We Are

Accenture Song is the world’s largest tech-powered creative group. Within Song, our Design & Digital Products practice helps iconic brands reinvent products, services, and spaces with the best of emerging technology to drive impact for end-users and for the business. From defining brand systems and designing digital and physical experiences, to building the visual tools and design systems that support them, we do it all. With 70 Song Studios and 4,000+ designers and makers across 6 continents.

As part of the Design and Digital Products practice, we operate like a studio within the larger Accenture organization: high craft standards, and a direct line between design decisions and shipped products at scale. Our team includes specialists in Product Design, Product Management, Engineering, Experience Design, Immersive Experiences, Visual Design, and Content Design. We partner closely with colleagues across Accenture who bring deep expertise in capabilities, industries, accounts.

Who You Are

You are a Visual Design Associate Manager who combines strong conceptual thinking with high craft standards on every project. You contribute meaningfully to the program's discipline tracks, phases, and visual design direction on engagements, executing and shaping the aesthetic language, design system, and visual output across touchpoints and program phase outputs such as research, strategy, and UX, under a lead's guidance. You are developing your ability to drive day-to-day creative leadership.

The Work

In this role you will have accountability across three dimensions:

Visual Design Associate Manager

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