Visual Design Manager

In Accenture Song’s Design & Digital Products practice, this role focuses on shaping visual design direction across client delivery, business development, and people and practice development. You will bring high-craft leadership to complex engagements, translating brand and audience inputs into visual languages that hold up under real delivery timelines, with AI-enabled workflows supporting the work.

Location: Cleveland, OH (onsite). Salary range: USD 87,400 to 266,300 per year. Experience: 7+ years.

What you’ll do

• Lead visual design direction on engagements from concept through delivery, with accountability for design quality, aesthetic cohesion, and timeline adherence.
• Translate abstract briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into clear, compelling visual languages.
• Set and defend a high visual craft standard while directing the creation of brand identities, design systems, motion, typography, illustration, and digital experiences.
• Balance visionary guidance with hands-on involvement by defining creative direction, shaping key design decisions, and producing high-quality output alongside your team.
• Use AI tools to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, and demonstrate how these tools enhance creative thinking rather than replace it.
• Serve as a leading creative voice in client discussions, sharing your visual perspective and turning design rationale into strategic narratives for high-stakes decisions.
• Document how AI changes visual design workflows, and quantify impact on delivery quality and team performance to evolve practice ways of working.
• Contribute to proposals, create case studies, and translate project learnings into thought leadership that highlights visual design capabilities.
• Identify and shape new creative opportunities with existing clients, partnering with account leads to build a strong point of view around brand, design system, or experience challenges.
• Manage, support, and mentor team members in day-to-day work, helping develop visual craft, creative confidence, and independence.
• Act as a consistent member of the Visual Design craft by sharing methods, creative references, and project outcomes that contribute to the discipline.

What you bring

• 7+ years of experience in Visual Design across a range of industries, brand types, platforms, and visual contexts.
• 4+ years leading visual design engagements end-to-end, from creative concepting and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• 4+ years directing the creation of brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI with a consistent and strong visual voice.
• 4+ years producing and directing high-fidelity visual work with exceptional detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
• 3+ years directly managing or coaching visual designers, with demonstrated ability to strengthen contributors into more independent practitioners.
• 3+ years working in agile and cross-functional environments with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists.
• 3+ years delivering high-caliber visual design work that has shipped at scale, solved complex product or brand problems, and driven measurable impact.
• Experience making ground-level visual decisions with a deep understanding of UX, ensuring work looks right and functions well for intuitive user guidance.
• Experience building and contributing to scalable design systems to maintain visual consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• Experience embedding AI tools and workflows into practice, including concept generation, mood-boarding, and rapid iteration.
• Recent hands-on experience using tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Claude Design, and relevant motion, illustration, or AI design tools.
• Facilitation skills and creative presence, including presenting visual strategy and design rationale to senior client stakeholders and guiding decisions under pressure.

Technologies

• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Claude Design

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: fluency in adjacent areas (brand strategy, service design, content design, or self-directed skill expansion); experience contributing to practice-level initiatives (ways of working, craft assets, onboarding, or community forums); a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in visual design and related creative fields; experience in management consulting, creative agencies, or professional services environments; and contributions to external thought leadership such as publishing creative POVs, speaking, or representing the practice in the broader design community.

Compensation note: Accenture compensation varies by location and other factors. Listed ranges include (but are not limited to) California $94,400 to $266,300 and Cleveland $87,400 to $213,000. Additional location examples include Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington.