Visual Designer, Web

Vercel • San Francisco, CA

18h • $208,000 - $312,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Vercel is seeking a Visual Designer to join their Website Design Engineering team. This role will focus on Vercel's web presence, including vercel.com, nextjs.org, product launches, and Ship. The designer will create pages, systems, and interactions that are built and shipped. The impact extends beyond the website to shaping how the Vercel brand is presented globally across digital and physical mediums, including launch moments, event experiences, motion, illustration, and brand-partnership surfaces. The designer will collaborate closely with design engineers who translate designs into production code, ensuring a high standard of polish. This is a visual design role emphasizing creativity and craft for the web. While coding is not a requirement, designers are encouraged to experiment with it. The position reports to the Director of Website Design Engineering and can be remote or hybrid across SF, NY, London, or Berlin hubs. For those within commuting distance of an office, in-office anchor days are Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Fully remote is an option for those located further away.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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).

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed