Principal Visual & Emerging Designer (grade 12)

NTT DATA Services•Remote, TX

1d•$135,405 - $250,750•Remote

About The Position

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. Launch by NTT DATA is the culmination of the company’s strategy to acquire and integrate the skills, experience, and technology of leading digital companies, backed by NTT DATA’s core capabilities, global reach, and depth. As an Experience Designer, you’ll become part of our growing design practice, helping Launch by NTT DATA create best-in-class digital customer, employee, and user experiences. You’ll support initiatives, large and small, to define cross-channel experience strategies and user experience designs that embrace the intersection of people, process, business, and technology. Our employee culture is built on learning, growth, transparency, and empathy. We hope you’ll join us to help shape it more.

Requirements

10+ years of work experience as a visual designer, product designer, or equivalent role
10+ years familiarity with common design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Sketch, Miro, etc.
Bachelor’s and/or graduate degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience
10+ years with Portfolio demonstrating examples of work product and process, and evidence of both strategic thinking and hands-on execution
10+ years demonstrated experience leading visual direction on individual client engagements

Nice To Haves

Strong portfolio and experience including: Art direction and creative concepting
Creating and implementing design systems
Compelling visual design across any screen size or form factor
Realistic and interactive prototypes
Excellent communication skills (verbal/written) to present complex technical concepts to non-technical individuals, using persuasion and tact in orchestrating design objectives and direction
Experience translating visual and craft decisions into a clear business rationale that clients and stakeholders can act on
Technical feasibility understanding and ability to communicate successfully with engineering
Experience with inclusive and accessible design practices
Independently drive the design review cycle and align on design requirements/decisions with stakeholders
Comfort operating across the full arc of a project, from framing the problem through shipping the polished execution
Ability to multi-task and stay deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within allotted timeframes
Growing fluency with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools, with sound judgment evaluating AI-generated output and curiosity to adopt them responsibly into everyday workflows
Experience creating detailed, structured design specifications that hand off cleanly to engineering, especially valuable if you’ve worked with distributed or offshore development teams

Responsibilities

Bring big-picture strategic thinking to how an engagement is framed, then deliver the premium visual work that brings it to life
Own hands-on delivery of premium visual design work on priority client engagements, setting and defending the visual quality bar for the project
Lead visual direction and critique across designers and disciplines on your engagements, raising the bar on craft for everyone around you
Use storytelling, prototypes, and direction-setting to help sell ideas, build excitement, and secure buy-in during client conversations and pursuits
Partner closely with product managers, strategy leads, and engineering to translate visual decisions into usable, feasible, on-brand solutions
Bring AI and emerging design tools into discovery, ideation, and production work with sound judgment on quality, accuracy, and accessibility, and share what’s working with the broader team
Coach designers on craft, presentation, and storytelling through critique and day-to-day collaboration