Visual Communication Design Lead

Location: Chicago, IL, United States

Salary: $100,000–$120,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global is a design consultancy that helps clients and organizations solve diverse, complex challenges through design.

What you will do

• Own the visual direction of client engagements from research and exploration through prototyping, refinement, and storytelling.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and collaborate with designers across brand, experience, interaction, digital product, and service design.
• Turn research and open-ended questions into visual systems and stories that make complex ideas clear and actionable.
• Create and guide looks-like and works-like prototypes at different levels of fidelity.
• Support and grow designers through critique, collaboration, mentorship, and hands-on craft leadership.
• Maintain a high standard of visual quality while encouraging experimentation, iteration, and learning.

Requirements

• Relevant experience or education in visual communication, brand expression, interaction design, and digital product design.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in graphic design, interaction design, or an equivalent field.
• Strong, versatile portfolio demonstrating visual craft, storytelling, and leadership across complex work.
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, plus experience with motion and design prototyping tools.
• Experience creating client-facing narratives with Google Slides and FigJam or Figma Slides.
• Ability to balance hands-on design work with direction-setting and mentorship.

Nice to have

• Experience establishing brand identities from strategy through execution across systems, touchpoints, and mediums.
• Experience leading visual work across interaction and digital product experiences.
• Experience guiding clients and multidisciplinary teams through complex, ambiguous design challenges.
• Experience working across industries and project types.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on curiosity, empathy, humility, and thoughtful problem-solving.
• Opportunities to pause, create, and connect with the design community.
• Support for bringing one’s whole self to work and maintaining work-life balance.
• Autonomy in the design process and career development.
• Full-time employment with eligibility for employee benefits.
• Commitment to equitable pay regardless of gender identity or race, ethnicity, or cultural identity.