Visual Design Lead

Visual Designer

A visual designer creates impactful graphics that are coherent and consistent, but at the same time impressively unique, based on visual fundamentals and theory of design. A visual design specialist is the lead role for visual and creative design, it should lead multiple projects and take ownership of the coordination and execution (timeline, estimations, plans) of visual design projects, co work, and control other groups of designers, but also have the experience of client-facing, and meet the expectations of the stakeholders to win and keep their trust.

Scope & Complexity:

• Requires analysis and solving of moderately complex problems. May create new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures.
• Requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. Interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture.
• Comfortable with ambiguity in a fluid organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defines team workflow, roles and tools and coordinates it with management and development.
• Leads brainstorming sessions with the team and promotes team alignment.
• Creates templates/style guides for client brands, through processes that encourage free thinking and creativity without boundaries.
• Leads and managing production projects for new campaigns.
• Provides creative and art direction and accurate time estimations on design tasks.
• Lead client presentations.
• Communicates with client to discuss and finalize the design of grids and layouts.
• Makes recommendations for improvements in reports, tools, processes and assigned tasks pertinent to the design capability.
• Negotiate deadline changes when needed due to changes in client requirements.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates risks and assigns appropriate owners to prevent issues and enhance performance.
• Identifies ways for team members to better engage in knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.
• Shares best practices and lessons learned.
• Promotes need for innovation in the team and influences team members to provide suggestions to improve work processes and enhance results.
• Establish, develop, and guide relationship with team members and stakeholders.
• Raises questions and concerns keeping the team's objectives in mind and works towards solutions that will enhance team performance.
• Proactively identify business opportunities within the vertical.
• Develop and promote skills in related areas to benefit team/organization.
• Juggle multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations.
• Justify design decisions eloquently and explain visual concepts from the visual language and creative rationale, and pitch them to the team and stakeholders in an engaging and convincing manner.
• Provide effective feedback and direction to other team members.
• Manage and organize the internal and external assets and deliverables repositories.
• Proven design & layout skills, great eye for composition, color, typography and detail-oriented.
• Working independently, keeping project timelines on track and showing process.
• Leading and collaborating closely with teams of writers, designers, animators, to launch effective designed campaigns, mobile content and brand activation experiences.

Job Specific Experience, Education and Skills:

• +6-8 years of relevant experience in visual or graphic design, and creative team management.
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Have a strong portfolio that demonstrates aesthetic & strategically creative solutions.
• Is open-minded and demonstrates flexibility and optimism in adapting to change.
• English and Spanish speaking required in order to work with clients from LATAM, North America and other locations around the world.
• Determine how best to approach visual design regarding accessibility variables such as color, contrast, size, etc.
• Knowledge with Agile work cycles, Waterfall and/or other methodologies.
• Advanced knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite tools. (Required: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign).
• Advanced knowledge in Figma.
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office tools: PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Experience designing for mobile platforms (iOS guidelines, Material Design and Responsive Web Design).
• Experience in the creation of OLA products (Static, Dynamic and animated banners).
• Experience in data visualization and infographics development.
• Knowledge in UI/UX solutions: UX (User Experience), UI (User Interface), Design Thinking, Interaction Design, UI Design
• Patterns & Techniques, UI Design-Web, Usability Design, Accessibility Design, UI Process Flow Design, Human – Centered,
• UI Design-Desktop, UI Usability Test & Tools, Competitive Analysis, Design Acumen.
• Minimum required education: High School Diploma.
• Advanced English written and spoken.

Specific for Illustration Specialist:

• Sketch. Have the ability to rapidly create a sketch to illustrate an idea or concept to a client.
• Drawing and Coloring with Manual Technics. It is important to have the manual skills for illustration, this will help the process of the digital illustration creation, because the knowledge use in paper can translate to the digital creation.
• Anatomy. Knowledge of human and animal anatomy is necessary in terms of knowing how to reinterpret it at more basic levels; and be able to create illustrations using these concepts.
• Perspective. Understand the use of perspective to generate ambientes and elements that had the right size in comparison with his size and position on the picture, for example the correct use of vanishing Point.
• Illustrative Adaptation. Be able to understand a drawing or art style from a basic perspective and replicate it.
• Synthetization. Be able to synthesize organic structures as well of inorganic structures and then perform a stylization of this structures.
• Character and Background Design. It is expected to have the ability to create characters, even in simple formats, following guidelines provided by the client or those that we define to meet and improve the visual expectations of any material.
• Composition. Build balanced compositions following design standards, where everything has the correct weights and proportions, for example the application of the golden ratio.
• Color Theory. Show knowledge of the principles of color theory for color mixing, and applying them for the creation of characters, backgrounds, illumination, and volume creation.
• Digital Painting. Ability to create illustrations using digital software, as well as other tools such as pen tablets, to generate a digital product.
• Iconography. The ability to make a iconography representation for the concepts present by the client, for example making a personalized icon in line with the request of the client.

Specific for Data Viz - Business presentations:

• Data visualization, infographics design and tables.
• Advanced knowledge on Master Template best practices (Design parameters and rules in composition, layout, typographic hierarchy, use of color palettes, image and object mask, etc.).
• Vector-based import & export best practices.
• PPT design tools proficiency.
• Figma tool proficiency.
• Sequence-based layouts and design to achieve optimal content-storytelling.
• Slide animation and transition expertise.
• Interactive presentation design expertise.
• Optimize assets and file weight.
• Online and remote workflow mastery for multiple file users

What we offer:

• Health and Life Insurance
• Accenture days, 3 additional vacation days
• On site doctor
• Birthday leave
• Internet reimbursement

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and