Lead Visual Designer
at Thoughtworks
Toronto, Canada
Thoughtworks is a pioneer in integrating experience design with agile software delivery. Our designers work as part of multi-disciplinary teams that balance the thinking required to understand complex problems with the discipline needed to get high-quality working software into the hands of our clients and customers. Designers at Thoughtworks creatively solve the right problems. We work collaboratively to deliver bespoke software and take on the most challenging problems our clients have.
Job responsibilities
- Lead and deliver high quality visual design across digital products, brand experiences, campaigns and narrative communication.
- Create compelling visual systems across multiple formats including interfaces, illustration, iconography, storytelling frames, motion sequences and video compositions.
- Develop visual concepts that clarify complex ideas and communicate them with precision, emotion and aesthetic quality.
- Elevate the craft quality of your team through critique, guidance and hands on design leadership.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, strategy and client stakeholders to ensure visual design supports both experience goals and business objectives.
- Present visual thinking clearly, telling the story behind your design decisions and demonstrating how craft strengthens the solution.
- Adapt your style and approach across different mediums while maintaining coherence and visual excellence.
- Contribute to Thoughtworks’ visual design community by sharing practices, mentoring and supporting collective craft growth.
Job qualifications
Visual Craft Skills
- Expertise in composition, typography, hierarchy, color, spacing and layout.
- Strong execution in graphic design and digital product visual design.
- Experience designing across multiple mediums such as illustration, branding, storytelling frames, motion graphics or video.
- Ability to build or extend design systems with a strong focus on visual foundations and consistency.
Professional and Leadership Skills
- Ability to guide teams and elevate craft quality through clear critique and visual direction.
- Confidence presenting work, articulating rationale and influencing stakeholders.
- Comfort working in multidisciplinary teams, integrating visual thinking into product and experience conversations.
- Openness to explore, iterate and refine ideas collaboratively.
- A strong sense of ownership, care for quality and commitment to delivering beautiful, thoughtful visual outcomes.
Portfolio requirement
Please share a portfolio that demonstrates:
- High fidelity digital product work
- Visual storytelling
- Systematic visual thinking
- Illustration, motion or video work where applicable
- We prioritize real work that shows your craft depth and your decision making process.
Other things to know
Learning & Development
There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.
About Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.