IDEO
Senior Visual Communication Designer
Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$80k-$100kDetected 145 days ago
A/B TestingUX ResearchRecruitingMechanical DesignResearchCommunicationAdaptability
About the role
- Senior Visual Communication Designer In a nutshell: Visual Communication Designers at IDEO make the biggest impact through visual storytelling.
- They work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to bring ideas, research, strategy, and stories to life through strong craft execution.
- You will work closely on strategic communications helping transform complex data, systems, and ideas into visuals and narratives that are intuitive, engaging, and actionable.
Responsibilities
- Your contributions may take on a variety of forms including brand expression, storytelling, information, motion, packaging, interface, wayfinding, and environmental design.
- Partner closely with a single, long-term Entertainment and Technology client, contributing to the ongoing evolution of their brand, platforms, and experiences over time
- Set the visual design direction of projects through exploration, strategy, graphic design, and storytelling
- Design environments, experiences, websites, apps, and combined digital and physical experiences with the end user in mind
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary designers with backgrounds such as industrial design, interaction design, business design, and mechanical engineering to solve problems
- Work through all phases of a project, from translating verbal ideas into rough visual concepts to creating production-ready artwork, to create looks like/works like prototypes of different levels of fidelity to help teams determine design direction
- Create compelling visual narratives that communicate user stories and our strategic solutions
- Be an advocate for exceptional visual design elevating craft, clarity, and coherence while working within complex systems, constraints, and timelines
- able to navigate team dynamics, timelines, and client contexts while delivering exceptional design
- IDEO is a place where you can solve diverse, complex challenges for our clients and their organizations, alongside thoughtful, intelligent individuals who lead with curiosity, empathy, and humility.
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex ideas, data, and strategies into clear, compelling visual narratives
- Comfort working from early concepting and synthesis through execution, refinement, and delivery
- Experience collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams
- High level of self-direction, organization, and accountability
- Once here you will:
- Some previous projects to check out:
- Enhancing garment worker well-being with A I
- Redefining retail in Mexico
- Teaching robots to dance
- Hot Sauce Success
- Key mindsets:
- Growth oriented and resilient: open to feedback, eager to iterate, and comfortable learning through experimentation and critique
Compensation
- The salary range for this role is $80,000-$100,000 USD.
Benefits
- This depth will enable you to contribute not just to design outcomes, but to strategic thinking, long-term vision, and the evolution of ideas as they move from concept to reality.
- Payscale & Benefits
- As a full-time position, this role is eligible for employee benefits.
Company info
- We're looking for designers who bring a distinct visual voice, curiosity, and a commitment to craft excellence.
This listing is sourced directly from IDEO's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.