Visual Designer (Sustainability)
Role Description
As a Visual designer you will work across several aspects of design from bringing concepts to life visually, creating visual storytelling artefacts such as journey maps and experience ecosystems, translating complex concepts into simple visualisations, participate in concept creation as part of a multidisciplinary design team, supporting the Product Designer to create UI concepts.
You'll be a great fit if you:
Have a passion and curiosity about sustainability. Experience in and strong fluency in the topic is awesome – and a willingness to learn more
Establish and give direction to other design team members on the look and feel of concepts.
Lead the creation of design concepts through organisation of brainstorms, workshops, and other idea-generating sessions.
Contribute to development of client-requested POVs.
Support and drive gathering deliverables into client-ready presentations.
Apply an expert understanding of clients’ needs, business objectives, and brand goals to inform insightful concepts while enhancing others’ knowledge and understanding of the client’s brand, consumer and competitive landscape.
Design mood boards, comps (with and without wireframes), concept sketches, presentation decks, style guides, and storyboards. Contribute content and create decks.
Present creative concepts and designs and communicate rationale to the team.
Demonstrated advanced problem-solving skills to help establish a look and feel for a given project, evaluate a creative approach, brainstorm, think and respond quickly while delivering unexpected, original and innovative ideas
Demonstrated ability to maintain attention to detail across project deliverables and management of version control issues
Manage and prioritise work effectively, for yourself and team as needed.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly articulate your creative process, thoughts, ideas and a point of view about your work, both internally and externally to clients
Excellent interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative environment with multidisciplinary teams
About the team
This is an extremely rare opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary global team in Accenture Song dedicated to making sustainability relevant and actionable for everyone. Our mission is to create positive impact for our clients and the world by bringing human insight to companies’ sustainability challenges, adding perspective and research, and creating ideas, products, experiences, and campaigns with genuine impact.
Working together, we will:
Have opportunities to use our craft to make a difference in people’s lives and positive planetary impact
Consistently push ourselves toward groundbreaking creative, strategic and design thinking.
Demonstrate how unconventional thinking leads to world-class sustainable solutions
Engage in ongoing activities that enable us to learn, practice, and evolve our discipline.
Minimum requirements
5+ years of design experience
Exceptional design portfolio with examples of work that demonstrates visual communication and storytelling skills, conceptual problem solving and the ability to define look and feel for integrated experiences
Expert command of standard design and presentation applications (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote, Figma, Sketch, Mural or Miro). Experience with video editing, motion graphics, and prototyping software is a plus
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
A passion for sustainability and a curiosity for how design can change the way we live and work
Preferred Qualifications/Experience:
Familiarity with design thinking methodology, collaborative work practices and the ability to present internally/externally, including coaching junior staff
Demonstrated advanced problem-solving skills to help establish a look and feel for a given project, evaluate a creative approach, brainstorm, think and respond quickly while delivering unexpected, original and innovative ideas
Learning the ability to define creative direction for work across accounts and drive teams to the successful creation of high-quality work product
Understanding of the production process (asset creation, specification creation, and handoff to development)
Understanding of areas of specialization within the wider design landscape, including but not limited to: Design Research; Visual Design; Interaction Design; Service Design; and Content Design
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 710,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
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