Visual Design Manager

What you get

This onsite Visual Design Manager role is based in Scottsdale, AZ, with a competitive annual salary range of USD 87,400 to 266,300. You will lead visual design direction across client engagements, shaping craft and AI enabled workflows while contributing to client delivery, business development, and people and practice growth. You’ll join a culture that values collaborative problem solving, continuous learning, and applying design to meaningful business outcomes.

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

Responsibilities

• Shape the visual design direction on engagements from concept to delivery, ensuring design quality, aesthetic cohesion, and on-time performance.
• Translate abstract briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into clear, compelling visual languages.
• Set and defend a high standard of visual craft across brand identities, design systems, motion, typography, illustration, and digital experiences.
• Balance visionary leadership with hands-on work, defining creative direction while producing high-quality output alongside the team.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, demonstrating how these tools augment rather than replace creative thinking.
• Be a leading creative voice in client discussions, translating design rationale into strategic narratives that guide high-pressure decisions.
• Document how AI changes visual design workflows and quantify its impact on delivery quality and team performance to evolve the practice.
• Contribute to proposals, develop case studies, and translate project learnings into compelling thought leadership that showcases visual design capabilities.
• Identify and shape new creative opportunities with existing clients, partnering with account leads to craft a persuasive point of view for deeper engagement.
• Manage, support, and mentor team members to grow their craft, confidence, and independent practice.
• Be an engaged member of the Visual Design craft, sharing methods and outcomes to help advance the discipline.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Visual Design across diverse industries, brands, platforms, and contexts.
• 4+ years leading visual design engagements end-to-end, from concepting and strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• 4+ years directing the creation of brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI with a strong, cohesive visual voice.
• 4+ years producing and directing high-fidelity visual work with pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specs.
• 3+ years directly managing or coaching visual designers, helping contributors grow into stronger, more independent practitioners.
• 3+ years working in agile, cross-functional environments with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists to deliver cohesive experiences.
• 3+ years delivering high-caliber visual design shipped at scale, solving complex product or brand challenges and delivering measurable impact.
• 3+ years making ground visual design decisions with a deep understanding of user experience, ensuring visuals guide users intuitively while expressing the brand.
• 3+ years building and contributing to scalable design systems that ensure visual consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• 3+ years embedding AI tools and workflows into visual design practices from concept generation and mood-boarding to rapid iteration and modeling AI-enabled workflows for a team.
• 3+ years hands-on experience in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Claude Design, and related motion/illustration tools or AI design tools; this is a hands-on role, not purely managerial.
• 3+ years facilitating and presenting visual strategy and design rationale to senior client stakeholders, guiding creative decisions under pressure.

Technologies

• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Claude Design
• AI design tools