Senior Visual Designer

Forbes

Senior Visual Designer creating engaging visual experiences for Forbes Advisor's financial, health, and business products. Collaborating with design and engineering teams to develop compelling motion and illustration.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Visual Craft: Partner with product designers across pods (insurance, financial products, home services, and others) to bring illustration, motion, and visual polish into flows that drive measurable conversion lift.
Sit in critiques, push back, and propose visual solutions to product problems.
Illustration & Visual Systems: Design and produce original illustrations, icon sets, and visual assets that extend our brand into product surfaces — editorial pages, landmark templates, conversion funnels, AI/LLM templates, and onboarding.
Build illustration systems that scale, not one-offs.
Motion & Animation: Own motion work end-to-end, from storyboard and concept through After Effects composition, Lottie export, and lightweight SVG/CSS animation specs handed to engineering.
Ensure motion ships at the quality you designed.
Design System Contribution: Develop and maintain illustration and motion guidelines as part of our design system — defining style, usage rules, reusable components, and motion tokens.
Brand & Sponsored Content: Contribute to high-visibility sponsored content packages and media kit deliverables, working alongside BD, editorial, and brand stakeholders when those projects call for senior visual craft.
Rapid Prototyping: Concept and prototype visual ideas quickly — comps, moodboards, animation tests to align stakeholders before production.
Engineering Partnership: Collaborate with front-end engineers on implementation, specifying motion behavior, easing, timing, and fallback states so what ships matches intent.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across design, product, editorial, BD, and engineering. Articulate why a visual choice matters in plain language to non-designers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8 years of experience as a visual designer, graphic designer, illustrator, or motion designer, ideally with time inside a product, editorial, or digital media environment.
A portfolio that demonstrates range: original illustration work, strong typographic and layout craft, and motion pieces you've taken from concept to shipped asset.
Deep fluency in After Effects, Lottie (Bodymovin or equivalent), Figma, and the Adobe suite.
Comfort with SVG animation and a working understanding of how motion ships on web.
Experience producing illustration systems that scale across a product or brand — defining style, rules, and reusable components rather than producing isolated assets.
Strong opinions about craft, paired with the collaborative instincts to work inside a product design team and respond to business and conversion goals.
Ability to articulate the rationale behind a visual choice in plain language to PMs, engineers, editors, and commercial stakeholders.
Comfortable iterating quickly in a fast-paced environment and distilling direction from open-ended briefs.
Remote-first experience with strong asynchronous communication habits.
You bring people together—articulate vision, build alignment, and foster cross-team collaboration through inspiring narrative.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)
Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being
Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program
Paid paternity and maternity leaves

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Hard Skills & Tools

visual designgraphic designillustrationmotion designtypographylayout designSVG animationrapid prototypingstoryboardingconcept development

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationarticulationcreativityproblem-solvingadaptabilityalignment buildingstakeholder engagementcritical thinkingteamwork