IDEO

Visual Communication Design Lead

Chicago, IL · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$100k-$120kDetected 62 days ago

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About the role

You'll work collaboratively to bring our voices, stories, and concepts to life through exceptional visual craft.
The salary range for this role is $100,000-$120,000 USD.
Final offers may vary based on candidate experience, location, and other factors.

Chicago Visual Communication Design Lead
As a Design Lead, you'll own the visual direction of engagements and lead multidisciplinary teams through all phases of the design process from early research and exploration through prototyping, refinement, and client-facing storytelling.
You'll contribute across a diverse portfolio of work spanning brand, experience, interaction, digital product, and service design.
Your work may take many forms, including brand strategy and expression, storytelling systems, interaction and digital product design, data visualization, packaging, and environmental design.
Lead project teams and collaborate with multidisciplinary designers
Collaborate closely with clients, using storytelling and design to make complex ideas clear and actionable
Turn research and open-ended questions into visual systems and stories that build empathy for people and bring their experiences to life for both teams and clients
Create and guide looks-like/works-like prototypes at different levels of fidelity to explore ideas and align teams
Support and grow other designers through thoughtful critique, collaboration, and hands-on craft leadership
Experience leading client work and multidisciplinary teams through complex, often ambiguous design challenges

Bachelor's degree or higher in graphic design, interaction design or an equivalent degree
Comfort shaping and delivering client-facing narratives using tools like Google Slides and FigJam/Figma Slides
Ability to balance hands-on making with direction-setting and mentorship

Confident and collaborative-able to lead teams and clients while remaining open, curious, and human
Comfortable with ambiguity-able to push work forward without having all the answers
Proactive and accountable-takes ownership, follows through, and supports the success of the whole team
The salary range for this role is $100,000-$120,000 USD.

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Hold a high bar for visual quality while staying open to exploration, iteration, and learning
Growth-oriented-embraces critique, experimentation, and learning through making

We are looking for a Visual Communication Design Lead who can guide teams and clients through complex design challenges, setting the visual direction and elevating storytelling across engagements.
We're looking for designers who bring a distinctive visual voice, raise the bar for quality, and help others do the same.

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