About the Role
NTT DATA is seeking a Principal Visual & Emerging Designer to join our growing design practice. You will help create best-in-class digital customer, employee, and user experiences by defining cross-channel experience strategies and user experience designs. The role involves leading visual direction, owning hands-on delivery of visual design work, and coaching other designers.
Responsibilities
- Bring big-picture strategic thinking to how an engagement is framed, then deliver the premium visual work that brings it to life
- Own hands-on delivery of premium visual design work on priority client engagements, setting and defending the visual quality bar for the project
- Lead visual direction and critique across designers and disciplines on your engagements, raising the bar on craft for everyone around you
- Use storytelling, prototypes, and direction-setting to help sell ideas, build excitement, and secure buy-in during client conversations and pursuits
- Partner closely with product managers, strategy leads, and engineering to translate visual decisions into usable, feasible, on-brand solutions
- Bring AI and emerging design tools into discovery, ideation, and production work with sound judgment on quality, accuracy, and accessibility, and share what’s working with the broader team
- Coach designers on craft, presentation, and storytelling through critique and day-to-day collaboration
Requirements
- Strong portfolio and experience including art direction and creative concepting
- Experience creating and implementing design systems
- Experience with compelling visual design across any screen size or form factor
- Experience with realistic and interactive prototypes
- Excellent communication skills (verbal/written) to present complex technical concepts to non-technical individuals, using persuasion and tact in orchestrating design objectives and direction
- Experience translating visual and craft decisions into a clear business rationale that clients and stakeholders can act on
- Technical feasibility understanding and ability to communicate successfully with engineering
- Experience with inclusive and accessible design practices
- Independently drive the design review cycle and align on design requirements/decisions with stakeholders
- Comfort operating across the full arc of a project, from framing the problem through shipping the polished execution
- Ability to multi-task and stay deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within allotted timeframes
- Growing fluency with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools, with sound judgment evaluating AI-generated output and curiosity to adopt them responsibly into everyday workflows
- Experience creating detailed, structured design specifications that hand off cleanly to engineering, especially valuable if you’ve worked with distributed or offshore development teams
- 10+ years of work experience as a visual designer, product designer, or equivalent role
- 10+ years familiarity with common design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Sketch, Miro, etc.
- Bachelor’s and/or graduate degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 10+ years with Portfolio demonstrating examples of work product and process, and evidence of both strategic thinking and hands-on execution
- 10+ years demonstrated experience leading visual direction on individual client engagements
- Must reside in the United States or Canada
Skills
- Visual design
- Emerging design
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- AI-assisted design
- Figma
- Sketch
- Miro
Location
- Remote — United States or Canada
- Toronto, Ontario (CA-ON), Canada (CA)
- Vancouver
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
- Graduate degree or equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $135,405 – $250,750 USD (US-based)
- $122,000–$187,000 CAD (Canada-based)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution (US-based)
- 401(k) with company match (US-based)
- Paid time off (US-based)
- Extended health and dental coverage (Canada-based)
- Retirement savings plan with company matching (Canada-based)
- Paid time off (Canada-based)
About the Company
- NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100.
- Committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation.
- One of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services.
- Consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future.
- A Global Top Employer with experts in over 50 countries.
- Offers clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners.
- Part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.
- Prioritizes hiring locally to NTT DATA offices or client sites.
- Flexible work arrangements are subject to change based on client requirements.
- In-office attendance may be required for meetings or events, depending on business needs.
- Committed to staying flexible and meeting the evolving needs of both clients and employees.
Equal Opportunity
- NTT DATA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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