Staff Visual Designer - Design Systems

What you'll do:

• Redefine and ship large, foundational improvements to Mercury’s design language (things like type, color, and iconography) that scale beautifully across every product surface.
• Partner with Brand and other craft leaders to bring expressive moments into the product and set direction for how brand and product visual language work together.
• Set the craft bar for the design org: define what excellent looks like, and build the systems, guidelines, and references that make it repeatable.

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years of experience in visual design, with deep expertise in typography, color systems, and iconography at a product or brand scale.
• A portfolio that shows range: foundational systems work as well as high-craft, expressive visual design.
• A track record of coaching or mentoring other designers, with a clear point of view on what strong craft looks like and how to teach it.

Why Mercury:

• We believe that level of care and craft in design has been lost in modern finance and we’re building a brand that brings it back.
• This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can see the whole UI system and knows how to evolve it at scale.
• Design Foundations is a brand-new team with real agency to define it.