Senior Visual Systems Designer

MURAL

Senior Visual Systems Designer defining visual foundations and maintaining visual systems at Mural. Collaborating across teams to enhance user experiences with modern design principles.

Posted 4/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Equal Opportunity
Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities

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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