A staff visual designer role on the newly formed Design Foundations team, sitting within Mercury's design systems group. The role owns the visual foundation—type, colour, iconography—that every product designer and UI surface builds on, and sets the craft bar for the whole design system.
What you'll do
- Redefine and ship foundational improvements to design language (type, colour, iconography) across product surfaces
- Partner with brand and craft leaders on expressive brand-in-product moments and direction
- Set the craft bar for the design org, define excellence, build guidelines and references
- Coach product designers, giving direct feedback to raise the quality bar
- Partner with design systems designers and engineers to translate visual decisions into scalable components
- Represent design systems and visual craft to brand, engineering and design leadership
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of visual design experience with deep expertise in typography, colour systems, iconography
- Portfolio showing range across foundational systems work and expressive visual design
- Conviction and language to articulate what makes design successful
- Track record of coaching or mentoring other designers on craft
- Systems thinking, balancing expressive design with scalable, pragmatic design system needs
- Strong stakeholder management, winning buy-in from executives and cross-functional leaders
- Strong communication and presence, setting direction and defending design decisions
- Proficiency in design tools and front-end prototyping with React
Nice to have
- Affinity for AI-assisted prototyping
- Motion design skills