MURAL

Senior Visual Systems Designer

MURAL

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Define and evolve the visual foundation of Mural’s product experience.
  • Own the visual language that product teams rely on.
  • Create simple, yet scalable color systems, typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy.
  • Ensure that Mural’s visual system feels modern, consistent, intentional, and human across surfaces and use cases.
  • Design visual rules that scale across teams, products, and contexts.
  • Design and maintain Mural’s visual system, including iconography, digital stickers, color palettes, typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy.
  • Create and evolve a cohesive icon and customer-facing illustration system that supports clarity, accessibility, and scalability across the product.
  • Define visual patterns and guidelines that help product designers build consistent, high-quality interfaces.
  • Audit and refine existing product surfaces to improve visual consistency and reduce fragmentation.
  • Produce clear documentation and examples that make visual standards easy to understand and adopt.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in visual design, product design, or design systems roles, with a strong focus on visual craft.
  • Deep expertise in icon design, including creating cohesive icon sets that scale across products and contexts.
  • Strong understanding of typography, color theory, spacing, and visual hierarchy in digital products.
  • Experience designing and maintaining visual systems used by multiple teams.
  • Ability to think systemically about visual decisions and anticipate how they will be used and extended.
  • Strong attention to detail and a high bar for polish and consistency.
  • Experience collaborating closely with engineers and other designers in iterative environments.
  • Clear communication skills, especially when explaining visual rationale and tradeoffs.
  • Experience designing for accessibility, including color contrast, legibility, and motion considerations.
  • Familiarity with token-based design systems and theming frameworks.
  • Experience working on large-scale SaaS or enterprise products.
  • Background in brand systems or visual identity work applied to digital products.
Benefits
  • Equal Opportunity
  • Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
visual designproduct designdesign systemsicon designtypographycolor theoryspacingvisual hierarchyaccessibility designtoken-based design systems
Soft Skills
attention to detailclear communicationcollaborationsystemic thinking