Senior Visual Designer - Web Brand Systems & Motion

vercel.com; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

WFH budget

Mentorship & events

Flexible time off

Gear for role

Job summary

Vercel seeks a senior Visual Designer to shape the visual language across vercel.com, Next.js, and product launches. You will craft pages, systems, and interactions that ship, working closely with design engineers who turn design into production code.

Expect a role deeply rooted in branding, motion, and cross‑medium design. We value a distinctive eye, 8+ years of design experience, and a portfolio across digital and physical media.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of design experience across digital and physical media.
• Portfolio spanning brand systems and shipped web work.
• Hands-on range across motion, 3D, illustration, and interaction.
• Systems-minded: design components and patterns for broader use.
• Shaping launch moments or events under real deadlines.
• Thrives collaborating with engineers; web is the medium.

Responsibilities

• Define the visual language for vercel.com and related surfaces and set a creative direction.
• Create hero animations, launch films, event environments, and brand‑partnership work.
• Own the creative vision end to end from concept to production code.
• Set the craft bar for typography, motion, and detail that defines Vercel.
• Move across web, motion, illustration, 3D, and identity with ease.
• Leave a mark on the system by influencing patterns to become standard.

Skills

Brand systems

Web design

Motion design

3D design

Illustration

Interaction design

Systems thinking

Tools

React

Tailwind

Next.js

Job description

Vercel seeks a senior Visual Designer to shape the visual language across vercel.com, Next.js, and product launches. You will craft pages, systems, and interactions that ship, working closely with design engineers who turn design into production code.

Expect a role deeply rooted in branding, motion, and cross‑medium design. We value a distinctive eye, 8+ years of design experience, and a portfolio across digital and physical media.