Senior Brand Designer – Expressive UI
Mercury
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $151,000 - $188,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Shape visual design, motion, and evolution of our emerging interfaces in product and web, ensuring our brand comes to life through the user experience.
- Lead with an AI-first design and development mindset.
- Shape core aspects of the Mercury UI.
- Elevate brand expression through innovative and opinionated visual design and visual asset libraries, ensuring unique brand moments at the right touchpoints for our users.
- Help build our design system by creating comprehensive frameworks, documentation, and libraries that other designers can follow to bring their work to life visually.
- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams.
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.
- Champion craft and clarity in every deliverable from the initial sketch to final production files.
- Effectively balance multiple projects, from concepting through to final execution, managing timelines with clarity and calm.
- Collaborate proactively and communicate effectively in an environment that values diverse perspectives, creativity, and innovation.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of experience in brand design, art direction, or visual communication, ideally with a mix of in-house and agency experience.
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates conceptual range, systems thinking, and refined visual execution across digital interfaces.
- Experience building and evolving apps.
- A passion for turning complex problems into simple but expressive UI.
- Outstanding systems thinking, visual design, and product thinking.
- Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions.
- Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback.
- Strong analytical, technical, and strategic experience.
- Experience defining motion libraries for UI.
- Experience building data visualization libraries consumed by product teams.
- Experience collaborating across disciplines to lead or support a new idea or product to launch.
- Experience conducting and guiding user research and cross-functional collaboration.
- Proven skills in presenting work, workshopping concepts, and evangelizing new ideas.
- Experience with front-end engineering constraints and direct experience partnering with engineers.
- 6+ years of experience on creative teams and in technical environments.
- 8+ years of software design, visual design, interaction design, UX design, and prototyping experience.
Benefits
- base salary
- equity (stock options)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
brand designart directionvisual communicationUI designsystems thinkingdata visualizationmotion librariesuser researchprototypingfront-end engineering
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationfeedback solicitationstrategic thinkinganalytical skillscreativityproblem-solvingproject managementpresentation skillsiterative design