Visual Designer

Overview

North Star Staffing is seeking an experienced Visual Designer to join a Visual Systems team supporting large-scale digital product experiences. This role focuses heavily on icon system design, asset production, and visual consistency across product surfaces.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in communication design, exceptional attention to detail, and experience building and scaling icon systems for global digital products. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to evolve and maintain a cohesive visual language that strengthens brand expression across web and mobile platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Icon System Development & Execution

• Design and produce high-quality iconography aligned with established visual systems
• Create scalable icon libraries across multiple sizes, weights, and themes
• Develop pixel-perfect, grid-aligned icons with strong optical balance
• Ensure clarity and usability at small sizes and across device contexts

Visual Systems & Documentation

• Extend and refine icon standards and system guidelines
• Document usage rules, specifications, and do/don’t guidance
• Maintain naming conventions, export workflows, and asset versioning processes
• Contribute to system consistency across product surfaces

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with art directors, product designers, producers, and engineers
• Translate product requirements into intuitive and emotionally engaging visual assets
• Participate in critiques and incorporate feedback constructively
• Ensure brand alignment and seamless user experience across deliverables

Creative Development

• Explore universally recognized visual metaphors to clarify complex concepts
• Present clear creative rationale behind design decisions
• Maintain high craftsmanship standards and strong visual hierarchy

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in visual design, graphic design, or production design
• Proven experience designing and implementing icon systems at scale
• Experience working across web, desktop, iOS, and Android platforms
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma (libraries, components, variables/styles, asset export workflows)
• Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Strong understanding of vector construction, grid systems, optical alignment, and accessibility standards
• Experience managing large-scale icon libraries and production workflows
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
• Understanding of design-to-development handoff and QA processes
• Familiarity with motion design, animation, or 3D tools

Work Environment

This is an onsite role in Menlo Park, CA, within a fast-paced product development environment. You will experience high collaboration across design and engineering teams.

Key skills/competency

• Icon System Design
• Visual Systems
• Brand Expression
• Communication Design
• Figma Expertise
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Vector Graphics
• Accessibility Standards
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Digital Product Design