Visual Design Associate Manager

The Visual Design Associate Manager role at Accenture Song shapes visual design direction, design systems, and output across engagements. It includes mentoring teammates and leveraging AI-enabled workflows to accelerate concepting and production. This on-site position is based in Arlington, VA.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to shaping 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 visual design work across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital experiences with strong craft and attention to detail.
• Be hands-on and self-directed, owning your workstream, making purposeful design decisions, and delivering production-ready output with minimal redirection.
• Actively use AI tools in your workflow to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, contributing to the team’s evolving AI-enabled ways of working.
• Engage confidently in client and stakeholder conversations, clearly communicating design rationale and developing a trusted creative voice.
• Document and share how AI tools are changing your workflow, 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 and creative opportunities, flagging potential areas for deeper work or expanded scope to your lead.
• Mentor junior team members informally, sharing feedback, references, and workflows that help them grow their visual craft.
• Be an active member of the Visual Design Craft community, contributing to shared resources, discussions, and ongoing discipline development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of visual design experience across diverse industries, brand types, platforms, and contexts.
• Experience contributing to visual design engagements end-to-end, from concept and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• Creating brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI that express a strong and evolving visual voice.
• Delivering high-fidelity visual work with meticulous attention to detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
• Experience mentoring junior designers through informal guidance and feedback to help peers develop craft and confidence.
• Experience in agile, cross-functional environments, collaborating with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Strong grounding in UX principles to inform visual design decisions, guiding users intuitively while maintaining a coherent brand perspective.
• Experience building scalable design systems that ensure visual consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• Comfort using AI tools in concept generation, mood boarding, and rapid iteration, with 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.
• Proven communication skills with clients; ability to present design rationale and contribute to creative discussions with stakeholders.

Technologies

• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• AI design tools

Compensation

Salary range: USD 68,300 - 218,800 per year.

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 self-directed skill expansion
• Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives such as 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 a related field
• Experience working in management consulting, a creative agency, or a professional services environment
• Building an external presence through publishing creative POVs, attending design community events, or sharing work publicly