Visual Design Associate Manager: AI‑Driven Craft Lead

Accenture; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Song, the world’s largest tech-powered creative group, seeks a Visual Design Associate Manager to elevate aesthetic language, design systems, and visual output across brand identities, UI, and motion. You’ll work under a lead, mentor juniors, and bring strong craft to engagements in a fast-moving, AI-enabled environment.

Based in California, you’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams, translate briefs into compelling visuals, and uphold precision and brand consistency while shaping

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Visual Design spanning a range of industries, brand types, platforms, and visual contexts.
• 2+ years: contributing to visual design engagements end-to-end, from creative concepting and visual strategy through to production-ready delivery.
• Producing brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI that demonstrate a strong and developing visual voice.
• Delivering high-fidelity visual work with strong attention to detail, including pixel-perfect deliverables and developer-ready specifications.
• Experience providing feedback and informal guidance to junior designers, with a growing ability to help others develop their craft and creative confidence.
• Experience working in agile and cross-functional environments, collaborating with product designers, product managers, engineers, and strategists to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Grounding in UX principles that informs your visual design decisions, understanding how design guides users intuitively while expressing a coherent brand point of view.
• Experience contributing to scalable design systems that ensure visual consistency across products, platforms, and channels.
• Comfort using AI tools in your visual design practice, from concept generation and mood-boarding to rapid iteration, and openness to evolving AI-enabled ways of working.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in visual design, visual communications, graphic design, fine art, or a related creative field.
• Experience working in management consulting, a creative agency, or a professional services environment.

Responsibilities

• Shape the visual design direction on engagements from concept through delivery, supporting quality and aesthetic cohesion.
• Translate briefs, brand strategy, and audience insights into compelling visual executions with growing ability to defend an original visual point of view.
• Produce high-quality visual design across brand identities, design systems, typography, motion, illustration, and digital UI with craft and attention to detail.
• Own and deliver production-ready output with minimal redirection, collaborating with lead and junior team members.
• Use AI tools actively to accelerate concepting, iteration, and production, contributing to evolving AI-enabled workflows.
• Engage in client and stakeholder conversations, communicating design rationale and expanding your presence as a trusted creative voice.
• Mentor junior designers, share feedback and references, and contribute to the Visual Design craft community.

Skills

Visual design

Brand identity

Design systems

Motion design

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

AI tools

Mentoring

Client presence

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Motion/Illustration tools

Job description

Accenture Song, the world’s largest tech-powered creative group, seeks a Visual Design Associate Manager to elevate aesthetic language, design systems, and visual output across brand identities, UI, and motion. You’ll work under a lead, mentor juniors, and bring strong craft to engagements in a fast-moving, AI-enabled environment.

Based in California, you’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams, translate briefs into compelling visuals, and uphold precision and brand consistency while shaping