Mercury is hiring a Senior Brand Designer - Expressive UI to shape how we show up visually, emotionally, and creatively across our product and website. You will lead with an AI-first design mindset to guide visual design, motion, and the evolution of emerging interfaces.

What You'll Do

Shape visual design, motion, and the evolution of our emerging interfaces in product and web, ensuring our brand comes to life through the user experience.
Lead with an AI-first design and development mindset.
Shape core aspects of the Mercury UI.
Elevate brand expression through innovative and opinionated visual design and visual asset libraries.
Help build our design system by creating comprehensive frameworks, documentation, and libraries.
Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams.
Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.
Champion craft and clarity in every deliverable from the initial sketch to final production files.
Effectively balance multiple projects, from concepting through to final execution.
Collaborate proactively and communicate effectively in an environment that values diverse perspectives, creativity, and innovation.

What We're Looking For

7–10 years of experience in brand design, art direction, or visual communication.
A strong portfolio that demonstrates conceptual range, systems thinking, and refined visual execution across digital interfaces.
Experience building and evolving apps.
A passion for turning complex problems into simple but expressive UI.
Outstanding systems thinking, visual design, and product thinking.
Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions.
Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback.
Strong analytical, technical, and strategic experience.
Experience defining motion libraries for UI.
Experience building data visualization libraries consumed by product teams.
Experience collaborating across disciplines to lead or support a new idea or product to launch.
Experience conducting and guiding user research and cross-functional collaboration.
Proven skills in presenting work, workshopping concepts, and evangelizing new ideas.
Experience with front-end engineering constraints and direct experience partnering with engineers.
6+ years of experience on creative teams and in technical environments.
8+ years of software design, visual design, interaction design, UX design, and prototyping experience.
Include a deck or portfolio of your best work with your application.

Nice to Have

Ideally with a mix of in-house and agency experience.

Benefits & Compensation

For US employees (any location): $151,000 - $188,700 USD.
For Canadian employees (any location): $142,700 - $178,300 CAD.
Includes equity (stock options).

Work Mode

This position is open to candidates in San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or the United States.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs.