Visual Designer, Web

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In the posting’s own words

We're looking for a Visual Designer to join our Website Design Engineering team. Your home base is Vercel's web presence, vercel.com , nextjs.org , product launches, and Ship, where you'll design pages, systems, and interactions that get built and shipped, not just handed off. But the impact is bigger than the site: you'll shape how the Vercel brand shows up in the world, from launch moments and event experiences to motion, illustration, and brand-partnership surfaces across digital and physical mediums. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with design engineers who turn design into production code, so your work lives on the real web at Vercel's bar for polish.

What it asks for · 9

• Above all, a distinctive eye and original ideas. Exceptional visual design instincts and creativity are the heart of this role, and the web is where most of your work will live.
• A portfolio spanning brand systems and work across multiple digital and physical mediums, anchored by strong, shipped web work. 8+ years of design experience.
• Meaningful hands-on range across several of these: motion, 3D, illustration, environmental and event design, and interaction. This is a maker's role, and coding is not what we mean by hands-on.
• Systems-minded: you design components and patterns, not one-offs, and think about how each choice fits a broader system.
• You've shaped launch moments, events, or brand-partnership surfaces under real deadlines, and you know how to make a moment land.
• You thrive collaborating with engineers and understand the web as a medium: how layouts behave, what's buildable, how design becomes code.
• Comfortable in a technology-driven environment; experience with developer, B2B, or SaaS products is a plus.
• A self-starter and egoless collaborator who takes feedback well and gives it generously.
• Familiar with Vercel, with working knowledge or experience preferred.

Also a plus

• Can prototype or bring ideas to life in code (React / Tailwind / Next.js).
• Have contributed to a design system at scale (even if owning ours won't be your job).

What the job covers

• Define the visual language of Vercel's most-seen surfaces, vercel.com , nextjs.org , product launches, and Ship, and set a creative direction the whole team builds from.
• Create the moments people remember: hero animations, launch films, event environments, and brand-partnership work that reaches across screen and physical space.
• Own the creative vision end to end, from the first spark of a concept to the finished result shipped on the real web, alongside design engineers who turn your work into production code.
• Set the craft bar: the typography, motion, and detail that make a page unmistakably Vercel, the kind of work other teams measure themselves against.
• Move fluidly across mediums, web, motion, illustration, 3D, and identity, and raise the bar wherever the Vercel brand shows up.
• Leave a mark on the system: influence Geist and our shared patterns through work good enough to become the standard.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• web8×
• system6×
• mediums5×
• event4×
• experience4×
• ideas4×
• moments4×
• visual4×
• bar3×
• design engineers3×
• details3×
• first3×
• hands-on3×
• motion illustration3×
• page3×

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