Senior Visual Designer

Position Summary

Are you passionate about using your design skills to make a real difference in people's lives? As a Senior Visual Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in translating cutting-edge behavioral science into purposeful, impactful visual imagery that influences positive behavior change and improves health outcomes. You'll bridge the gap between art and science, collaborating with experts across disciplines—scientists, researchers, and content specialists—to create designs that resonate and inspire.

In this role, you'll mentor and guide a talented visual designer, sharing best practices, encouraging creative growth, and providing constructive feedback to help them reach their full potential. As a key contact for visual design, you'll ensure that every project aligns with both creative vision and project goals, meeting deadlines with a pragmatic, user-centered approach.

From research studies to marketing campaigns and presentations, your work will have a lasting impact, helping to shape visual assets that elevate our mission.

This role is remote within the US.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Design Production

• Produce original illustrations, compositions, and infographics based on visual design plans and behavioral design specifications.
• Selectively introduce new visual styles in designs to support specific research, client, or program outcome goals
• Refine visuals based on client feedback, brand guidelines, clinical considerations, or internal scientific reviews
• Incorporate illustrations into original compositions and designs for use in behavioral design deliverables, email messages, text messages, web pages, videos, and for research testing.
• Support creation of visual assets and document design for discovery reports, presentations, behavioral science blog posts, manuscripts, etc.
  
  

Visual Asset Management

• Take responsibility for the creation and maintenance of a scalable design system, ensuring consistency of behavior change techniques across all interventions
• Build and maintain design asset libraries using Lirio's content management system (CMS), including tagging to ensure visual assets are machine learning-readable
• Manage a digital asset library external to CMS
• Support the behavioral science team to review and audit images in the library as required to derive insights for internal improvements or for publication
  
  

Other

• Peer review the work of other visual designer(s)
• Document internal processes in Confluence, Sharepoint, and other relevant systems as necessary
• Perform other duties as assigned
  
  

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as a visual designer
• Experience implementing visual direction across multiple communication mediums and projects.
• Experience creating illustrations and infographics
• Experience presenting work to stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and incorporate design, marketing psychology, behavioral science, and storytelling principles into visuals
• Solid portfolio demonstrating exceptional graphic design principles and technical proficiency
• Experience producing animation nice to have but not required
• Experience with art direction, photography, animation production, video, or other visual media nice to have
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite (especially Illustrator and Photoshop)
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite
• Figma a plus
• Experience with content management systems (CMS) a plus
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite (especially Illustrator and Photoshop)
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite
• Figma a plus
• Mentorship experience, providing support and feedback to junior designers or team members
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate requirements into creative solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and ideas to non-designers.
• Understands and stays up-to-date on current design trends and techniques
• Ability to manage multiple projects with various timelines.
• Independent, organized worker who can set priorities and manage several projects with minimal supervision
• Highly collaborative
  
  

Benefits

• Medical (HSA available)
• Dental
• Vision
• Short-term & long-term disability (company-paid)
• Life & AD&D (company-paid)
• 401K with company match
• 10 paid holidays + holiday week company closure
• Flexible time off policy
• Work from home
• Salary range: $90,000-$110,000