[Hiring] Visual Designer @Aquent

Role Description

In this role, you will be at the heart of visual communication, bringing brand strategies to life through stunning and effective designs. You will collaborate across diverse teams, innovate with cutting-edge tools, and leave your indelible mark on the brand's aesthetic, ensuring every visual touchpoint is distinctive and impactful. You will contribute significantly to key digital marketing campaigns and web initiatives, ensuring the brand's visual language evolves and remains compelling for a global audience.

What You'll Do

• Create thoughtful visual concepts for digital marketing campaigns, web experiences, and brand initiatives.
• Translate brand strategy into engaging creative that is distinctive, consistent, and effective.
• Explore multiple creative directions, iterate quickly, and present clear design rationale.
• Collaborate with writers, strategists, researchers, developers, and marketers across a global organization to bring visions to life.
• Contribute to the evolution of the visual language and design system, leaving your mark on the brand's aesthetic.
• Use research, accessibility best practices, and user feedback to inform creative decisions, ensuring inclusive and effective designs.
• Leverage modern AI-powered creative tools to accelerate ideation, exploration, and production while applying strong design judgment.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communication, interaction design, or a related field (or equivalent portfolio and practical experience).
• A portfolio that demonstrates original thinking, strong visual craft, and an ability to solve communication challenges, not just polished execution.
• An independent thinker who is comfortable working through ambiguity and proposing original ideas.
• Strong visual craft, typography, layout, composition, and storytelling skills.
• Proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Familiarity with design systems and collaborating effectively with front-end developers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to thrive in a global team environment.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• An interest in AI-assisted creative workflows and emerging design technologies.
• Experience in B2B technology or at a creative agency.
• A proactive approach, consistently asking "What if?" before "What's next?".
• A mindset focused on generating ideas, not just delivering files.
• The ability to balance creativity with business objectives, ensuring designs meet strategic goals.
• A commitment to valuing feedback and using it constructively to improve your work.
• A passion for accessibility, inclusion, and creating simple, memorable experiences for all users.
• A continuous learner who enjoys exploring new tools and refining their craft.

Requirements

• Compensation Range: $28-$32/hour DOE
• The range provided is our reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location.

Company Description

Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world's most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studios team member, you'll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!