Visual Design Manager

Accenture Song in Houston, TX offers an onsite Visual Design Manager role that pairs leadership with hands-on craft. The position carries a salary range of USD 87,400 – 266,300 per year and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term disability coverage, 401(k) and bonus opportunities, plus paid holidays and paid time off. You will guide visual design across engagements, mentor design teams, and leverage AI-enabled workflows to accelerate concepting and production.

Responsibilities

• Steer visual design direction on client and internal engagements from concept through delivery, ensuring quality, cohesive aesthetics, and on-time milestones.
• Translate abstract briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into clear, compelling visual languages.
• Establish and defend a high visual craft standard across brand identities, design systems, motion, typography, illustration, and digital experiences.
• Balance vision with hands-on work: define creative direction while staying close to production and delivering high-quality output with your team.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, modeling how these tools augment rather than replace creative thinking.
• Serve as a leading creative voice in client discussions, translating visual rationale into strategic narratives to guide 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, create case studies, and translate project learnings into thought leadership that demonstrates our visual design capabilities.
• Identify and shape new creative opportunities with existing clients, partnering with account leads to develop compelling viewpoints.
• Manage, support, and mentor team members, helping them grow their craft, confidence, and independence.
• Be an engaged member of the Visual Design craft, sharing methods and outcomes to contribute to the discipline’s evolution.

Requirements

• 7+ years of visual design experience across multiple industries, brand types, platforms, and contexts.
• Experience leading visual design engagements end to end, from concepting and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• Proven ability to direct the creation of brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI with a strong, cohesive visual voice.
• Track record of producing high-fidelity work with meticulous attention to detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specs.
• Experience directly managing or coaching visual designers and developing contributors into stronger, more independent practitioners.
• Ability to work in agile, cross-functional environments with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Delivering high-caliber visual design shipped at scale, solving complex product or brand challenges, and driving measurable impact.
• Strong UX-informed approach to visual design, ensuring visuals guide users intuitively while expressing a coherent brand point of view.
• Experience building and contributing to scalable design systems that ensure consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• Experience embedding AI tools and workflows into visual design practices from concept generation to rapid iteration and AI-enabled workflows for a team.
• Hands-on proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Claude Design, and relevant motion, illustration, or AI design tools; this is not a purely managerial role.
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills, capable of articulating visual strategy and design rationale to senior client stakeholders under pressure.

Technologies

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

Benefits

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

Bonus Points If You Have

• Fluency in adjacent areas such as brand strategy, service design, or content design, or a self-directed expansion of your skillset.
• Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives, including 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 creative field.
• Experience in management consulting, a creative agency, or a professional services environment.
• Active involvement in external thought leadership, such as publishing POVs, speaking at events, or representing the practice in the design community.