ACD UI/Visual Designer

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly experienced Associate Creative Director (UI/Visual Design) to lead a high‑visibility redesign initiative for one of the nation’s largest retirement fund and employer-sponsored investment providers. This role requires a hands-on design leader who can elevate, modernize, and unify a complex enterprise design system while guiding a distributed team across the U.S. and India.

You will serve as the visual execution lead for a major multi‑month transformation effort, partnering closely with our Group Creative Director to bring an evolved experience vision to life across digital products.

What You’ll Do

Lead Visual Design & Design System Modernization

• Evolve and modernize the client’s existing design system to meet contemporary visual, usability, and accessibility standards.
• Drive a refreshed visual language across typography, color, iconography, layout systems, and component-level execution.
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and best-in-class craft across all design deliverables.

Hands-On Visual Craft & Delivery

• Operate as both a leader and practitioner—diving into detail-level design work when needed.
• Review and refine visual assets, ensuring pixel-perfect execution and world-class polish.

Team Leadership & Distributed Coordination

• Lead and organize a distributed design team, including resources in India and U.S.-based UX and UI specialists.
• Assign, supervise, and coordinate work across visual design, UX design, and UI production roles.
• Provide day-to-day direction, feedback, and mentorship to ensure cohesive and timely delivery.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work directly with client-side design, brand, and development teams to align and implement design system updates.
• Support the Group Creative Director in translating the broader experience vision into actionable visual direction.
• Partner with UX leads to ensure brand expression enhances, not competes with, usability and interaction patterns.

UX Fluency & Design Integration

• Understand UX best practices, cross-channel patterns, and user-centered design principles.
• Advocate for design decisions that balance aesthetics, accessibility, and usability.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on both UI and UX deliverables, ensuring alignment between brand expression and functional experience.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of visual design experience, with deep expertise in digital product design for large-scale systems.
• Proven experience leading design-system evolution or modernization within a large enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire distributed, multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Strong hands-on craft: typographic systems, layout, grid, component refinement, visual QA.
• Comfortable working within Agile environments and partnering closely with client counterparts.
• Ability to articulate design rationale clearly to both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Experience working with teams in India or globally distributed design models is a strong plus.
• A portfolio showing world-class visual design, sophisticated systems thinking, and enterprise-scale problem solving.

Additional Information

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $90,000 - $100,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. 

Benefits available with this position include: 

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance, 

• Life insurance, 

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance, 

• 401k, 

• Flexible paid time off, 

• At least 15 paid holidays per year, 

• Paid sick and safe leave, and 

• Paid parental leave. 

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com. 

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.  #LI-RB1 #LI-Hybrid

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

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