Senior Visual Interaction Designer: Elegant Interfaces

IDEO; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401K matching

Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance

Fertility Assistance

Transgender Medical Assistance

Flexible Work

Paid Holidays

Annual Education Stipend

Home Office Stipend

Job summary

IDEO seeks a Senior Visual Interaction Designer for our Cambridge Studio. You will craft elegant user experiences, shaping how people interact with complex design systems, software, and services.

You’ll translate insights into clear interactions, balancing visual craft with usability, and developing a distinct visual voice across challenges within a multidisciplinary team. This role is ideal for self-motivated designers eager to tackle complexity and continuously sharpen their craft within a

Qualifications

• Relevant experience and/or educational background required in visual, interaction, or graphic design across digital products or experiences.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating visual excellence, thoughtful interaction design, and a clear point of view on typography, color, layout, and motion.
• Comfort working at multiple levels of fidelity, from rough explorations to refined, production-ready designs.
• Experience in delivering low and high fidelity prototypes.
• Proficiency with contemporary design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Framer, Principle), with curiosity about emerging tools and technologies.
• Familiarity with motion, code, or physical computing (e.g., HTML/CSS, After Effects, Processing/P5, Arduino) is a plus, but not required

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a diverse portfolio of projects spanning data, experience, interaction, digital product, and service design across a range of industries.
• Work across all phases of a project, from research synthesis and concepting through prototyping, refinement, and production-ready execution.
• Translate human-centered insights into interaction models, visual systems, and polished digital interfaces.
• Create looks-like / works-like prototypes to explore ideas, test assumptions, and communicate concepts to teammates and client stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with designers from different backgrounds—including design research, business design, industrial design, and communication design—to develop cohesive, holistic experiences.
• Design across a wide variety of mediums and contexts, such as mobile apps, AI experiences, websites, digital/physical systems, room-scale displays, AR/VR, or voice interfaces, always guided by user needs and context.
• Advocate for high-quality visual and interaction design, contributing to a culture of strong craft, curiosity, and experimentation

Skills

Visual design

Interaction design

Prototyping

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Framer

Principle

HTML/CSS basics

After Effects

Tools

Figma

Framer

Principle

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

IDEO seeks a Senior Visual Interaction Designer for our Cambridge Studio. You will craft elegant user experiences, shaping how people interact with complex design systems, software, and services.

You’ll translate insights into clear interactions, balancing visual craft with usability, and developing a distinct visual voice across challenges within a multidisciplinary team. This role is ideal for self-motivated designers eager to tackle complexity and continuously sharpen their craft within a