Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems

Mercury
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Systems thinking","Stakeholder management","Communication","Coaching","Mentoring","Craft leadership"]

Own Mercury’s design system craft by redefining and shipping foundational updates to the visual language—type, color, and iconography—across every product surface. Partner with Brand and design leaders to align expressive brand-in-product moments with UI execution, and set the craft bar through systems, guidelines, and references. Coach product designers, and collaborate with design systems designers and engineers so visual decisions translate into scalable, maintainable components.

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Mercury
Mercury
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Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems

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Job Summary

Own Mercury’s design system craft by redefining and shipping foundational updates to the visual language—type, color, and iconography—across every product surface. Partner with Brand and design leaders to align expressive brand-in-product moments with UI execution, and set the craft bar through systems, guidelines, and references. Coach product designers, and collaborate with design systems designers and engineers so visual decisions translate into scalable, maintainable components.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Redefine and ship large, foundational improvements to Mercury’s design language (type, color, iconography) that scale across product surfaces.
  • •Partner with Brand and craft leaders to bring expressive moments into the product and set direction for brand and product visual language alignment.
  • •Set the craft bar by defining what excellent looks like and building repeatable systems, guidelines, and references.
  • •Coach product designers by giving direct feedback that raises quality across individual work and the design system.
  • •Partner with design systems designers and engineers to ensure visual decisions translate into scalable, maintainable components.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of visual design experience with deep expertise in typography, color systems, and iconography at a product or brand scale.
  • •A portfolio demonstrating both foundational systems work and high-craft, expressive visual design.
  • •Ability to articulate conviction and language for what makes design successful.
  • •Proven track record coaching or mentoring designers, with a clear point of view on strong craft.
  • •Systems thinking to balance expressive visual design with scalable design system needs for a data-rich product.
Experience:10+ yearsFintechSaaS
Skills:Systems thinkingStakeholder managementCommunicationCoachingMentoringCraft leadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:React

Company Brief

Mercury
Provides banking and financial infrastructure for startups and small businesses, offering business checking accounts, payments, debit cards, venture debt integrations, and treasury services via a developer-friendly platform.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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