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About the Role
Mercury is seeking a Staff Visual Designer to elevate the craft of its design system and product experience. This senior individual contributor role involves defining and evolving the UI system at scale, with a unique opportunity to shape a brand-new team focused on design systems, brand in product, and AI tools.
Responsibilities
- Redefine and ship foundational improvements to Mercury’s design language, including type, color, and iconography, ensuring scalability across all product surfaces.
- Collaborate with Brand and other craft leaders to integrate expressive brand moments into the product and define the synergy between brand and product visual language.
- Establish the craft standard for the design organization by defining excellence and creating repeatable systems, guidelines, and references.
- Provide direct coaching and feedback to product designers to enhance the quality of their individual work and the design system.
- Partner with design systems designers and engineers to ensure visual decisions are accurately translated into scalable and maintainable components.
- Represent design systems and visual craft in discussions with Brand, Engineering, and design leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in visual design with deep expertise in typography, color systems, and iconography at a product or brand scale.
- A portfolio showcasing foundational systems work and high-craft, expressive visual design.
- Ability to articulate design success with conviction and language.
- Proven track record of coaching or mentoring other designers, with a clear perspective on strong craft and its teaching.
- Systems thinking, balancing expressive design with the pragmatic needs of a scalable design system for data-rich products.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, capable of gaining buy-in from executives and cross-functional leaders for high-visibility work.
- Strong communication and presence, able to set direction, build alignment, and defend design decisions with designers and engineers.
- Proficiency in design tools and front-end prototyping with React.
- Comfort working closely with engineers on the implementation and maintenance of visual systems in code.
- Affinity for AI-assisted prototyping.
- Motion design skills are a plus.
Skills
- Visual design
- Typography
- Color systems
- Iconography
- Design systems
- Brand in product
- AI tools
- Front-end prototyping
- React
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Mentoring
- Motion design
Location
- US employees (any location)
- Canadian employees (any location)
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
- 10+ years
Salary/Compensations
- US employees (any location): $228,700 - $285,900 USD
- Canadian employees (any location): $216,200 - $270,200 CAD
Benefits
- Base salary
- Equity (stock options/RSUs)
About the Company
- Mercury is a financial technology company building products that aim to bring back the design-forward thinking and craft lost in modern finance.
- Mercury helps people and businesses accomplish more with their money by transforming banking from a frustration into a catalyst for ambitions.
- *Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
Equal Opportunity
- Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
- All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs.