Staff Visual Designer, Design Systems: Elevate Brand Craft

Mercury; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 228,700 - 285,900; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is seeking a Staff Visual Designer to raise the ceiling of craft across its design system and product experience. This senior individual contributor will shape the full UI system and guide its evolution at scale.

Design Foundations is a brand-new team responsible for design systems, brand-in-product, and AI tools, offering real autonomy to define the vision and collaborate with a hungry, growth-focused team.

Qualifications

• :10+ years of experience in visual design, with deep expertise in typography, color systems, and iconography at a product or brand scale.
• :A portfolio showing range across foundational systems and high-craft expressive design.
• :Conviction and language to articulate what makes design successful.
• :Experience coaching/mentoring designers with a clear craft point of view.
• :Systems thinking to balance expressive design with scalable design systems for data-rich products.
• :Strong stakeholder management and ability to win buy-in from executives on high-visibility work.
• :Excellent communication and presence to set direction and defend design decisions.
• :Proficiency in design tools and front-end prototyping with React; motion design is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Redefine and ship large, foundational improvements to Mercury’s design language that scale across product surfaces.
• Partner with Brand and craft leaders to bring expressive moments into the product and align visual language.
• Set the craft bar: define excellence, and build systems, guidelines, and references for repeatable success.
• Coach product designers with direct feedback to raise quality across work and design system.
• Collaborate with design systems designers and engineers to translate visuals into scalable components.
• Represent design systems in conversations with Brand, Engineering, and design leadership.

Skills

Visual design

Typography

Color systems

Iconography

Design systems

Coaching designers

Brand experience

Stakeholder management

Communication

React prototyping

Tools

React

Job description

Mercury is seeking a Staff Visual Designer to raise the ceiling of craft across its design system and product experience. This senior individual contributor will shape the full UI system and guide its evolution at scale.

Design Foundations is a brand-new team responsible for design systems, brand-in-product, and AI tools, offering real autonomy to define the vision and collaborate with a hungry, growth-focused team.