Lead Visual Designer

Thoughtworks is a pioneer in integrating experience design with agile software delivery. Our designers work in multi-disciplinary teams that balance the thinking required to understand complex problems with the discipline needed to get high-quality working software into the hands of our clients and customers. Designers at Thoughtworks creatively solve the right problems. We work collaboratively to deliver bespoke software and take on the most challenging problems our clients have.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end visual design strategy, ensuring solutions are not only aesthetically engaging and accessible but also aligned with business goals and user needs.
• Take ownership of the overall visual design direction across projects, guiding branding implementation, product styles, and visual standards, ensuring consistency and quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, acting as a key player in the ideation, creation, testing, and delivery of design systems, UI elements, and other visual assets.
• Regularly evolve your designs based on user research, testing, and feedback, while ensuring that visual consistency is maintained across all platforms and touchpoints.
• Be the primary bridge between design, technology, and business teams, ensuring your vision is seamlessly executed in collaboration with developers and other stakeholders.
• Champion the continuous improvement of design practices by mentoring your team, facilitating knowledge sharing, and running workshops or feedback sessions.
• Actively engage in thought leadership within the design community, speaking at industry events and representing Thoughtworks’ design philosophy.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

• Exceptional visual design skills with a strong eye for detail in color, layout, and typography.
• Experience with Design Systems and Interaction Design
• Ability to differentiate between “good” and “great” design, and a passion for pushing boundaries.
• Expertise in working closely with business and tech teams to bring real-world design solutions to life.
• Comfortable with trial and error, embracing feedback, and using prototyping to explore new ideas.
• Thorough experience with accessibility, usability, design patterns for web and mobile, and user research and testing.

Professional Skills

• You excel in leading agile, cross-functional teams of technologists and designers, confidently directing and overseeing the planning of UI assets and visual deliverables across multiple projects.
• Complex, large-scale challenges captivate you and you have the ability to break them down into simple, strategic, and impactful visual solutions that drive business outcomes.
• As a seasoned storyteller, you not only communicate the customer and business value of design to stakeholders but also inspire teams with your vision, ensuring your ideas resonate at all levels of the organization.
• You are passionate about elevating your team, mentoring designers of all levels and providing structured learning opportunities to grow their skills and design expertise.
• A thought leader in your field, you actively contribute to the design community, both within and outside the organization, advocating for the importance of exceptional visual design.

Please share a portfolio link that showcases your expertise in digital products – ideally both web and mobile. Enterprise / SaaS Experience in your field is essential.

Other things to know

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.

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