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Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems

Mercury·Remote·$228,700–$285,900 / year
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Mercury is a financial technology company building banking products for people and businesses. The Design Systems team sets the visual foundation every product designer and UI surface builds on, from type and color through to expressive brand-in-product moments. This Staff Visual Designer role sits in Design Foundations, a brand-new team responsible for design systems, brand in product and AI tools that help anyone build, so the role has real agency to define it. It is a senior individual contributor position for someone who can see the whole UI system and evolve it at scale.

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What you'll do

  • Redefine and ship large foundational improvements to Mercury's design language (type, color, iconography) that scale across every product surface
  • Partner with Brand and other craft leaders to bring expressive moments into the product and set direction for how brand and product visual language work together
  • Set the craft bar for the design org and build the systems, guidelines and references that make it repeatable
  • Coach product designers on their craft with direct feedback that raises the quality bar
  • Partner with design systems designers and engineers so visual decisions translate into scalable, maintainable components
  • Represent design systems and visual craft in conversations with Brand, Engineering and design leadership

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years in visual design with deep expertise in typography, color systems and iconography at product or brand scale
  • A portfolio showing both foundational systems work and high-craft expressive visual design
  • Conviction and language to articulate what makes a design successful, not just taste
  • A track record of coaching or mentoring designers with a clear point of view on strong craft
  • Systems thinking that balances expressive visual design with a scalable system for a data-rich product
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication, able to win buy-in from executives and cross-functional leaders
  • Proficiency in design tools and front-end prototyping with React, plus an affinity for AI-assisted prototyping (motion design is a plus)

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