Accenture Song seeks a Visual Design Associate Manager in Kirkland, WA to shape visual design direction, contribute to design systems across engagements, mentor junior teammates, and collaborate with clients, with a focus on AI enabled workflows.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to and shape the visual design direction on engagements from concept through delivery, ensuring quality, aesthetic cohesion, and on-time delivery.
- Translate briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into compelling visual executions, building and defending an original visual point of view.
- Produce high-quality work across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital experiences with strong craft and meticulous attention to detail.
- Take ownership of your workstream, make deliberate design decisions, and deliver production-ready output with minimal redirection.
- Actively use AI tools to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, contributing to the team’s evolving AI enabled ways of working.
- Engage in client and stakeholder conversations, clearly communicating design rationale and growing as a trusted creative voice.
- Document and share how AI tools alter workflows, 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, flagging potential areas for deeper work or expanded scope to your lead.
- Mentor junior team members informally, sharing feedback, references, and ways of working to help 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 experience in Visual Design across multiple industries, brand types, platforms, and visual contexts.
- At least 2 years contributing to visual design engagements end-to-end, from concept and visual strategy through production-ready delivery.
- Experience producing brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI that demonstrate a strong and developing visual voice.
- Proven ability to deliver high-fidelity visual work with pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
- Experience providing feedback and informal guidance to junior designers, helping others grow their craft and confidence.
- Experience working in agile and cross-functional environments, collaborating with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists.
- Strong grounding in UX principles that inform visual design decisions and convey 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 visual design practice, from concept generation to rapid iteration, with openness to evolving AI enabled workflows.
- Hands-on experience with design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and relevant motion, illustration, or AI design tools.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to develop client presence and present design rationale in creative discussions with stakeholders.
Technologies
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AI design tools
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance
- 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 emerging technology to drive impact for end users and for the business. With 70 Song Studios and 4,000+ designers and makers across six continents, we operate as a studio within Accenture, upholding high craft standards and delivering shipped products at scale across disciplines.
Who you are
You are a Visual Design Associate Manager who blends strong conceptual thinking with high craft standards. You contribute meaningfully to program discipline tracks, helping shape visual design direction on engagements. You execute and influence the aesthetic language, design system, and visual outputs across touchpoints and program phases such as research, strategy, and UX under a lead’s guidance, while growing your ability to drive day-to-day creative work.
The Work
- Client Delivery
- Contribute to shaping visual design direction on engagements from concept through delivery, ensuring quality, cohesion, and timely progress.
- Translate briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into compelling visuals and defend an original point of view.
- Produce high-quality visual design across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital experiences with careful craft.
- Be hands-on and self-directed, delivering production-ready output with minimal redirection.
- Integrate AI tools to accelerate concepting and production, contributing to AI-enabled workflows.
- Engage in client conversations, clearly explaining design rationale and establishing credibility as a creative voice.
- Document AI driven workflow changes to support evolving practice knowledge.
- Business Development
- Document AI workflow changes to share insights and contribute to the practice’s understanding of AI enabled visual design.
- Support proposals and case studies with project work, process documentation, and design narratives that showcase capabilities.
- Monitor internal and client needs, flagging opportunities for deeper work or expanded scope to the lead.
- People & Practice Development
- Mentor junior team members informally, sharing feedback and references to support growth.
- Actively participate in the Visual Design Craft community, contributing resources and advancing discipline development.
