Visual Design Lead

About Creative.

At Huge, Creative brings together designers, writers, and technologists to create meaningful digital experiences. We combine creativity, design, technology, and a deep understanding of people to transform complex challenges into intuitive, engaging, and impactful experiences.

Our teams value collaboration, experimentation, and bold creative thinking to deliver work that connects with people and drives meaningful outcomes.

The role.

Huge is looking for a Visual Design Lead to lead the visual design direction across complex digital products and experiences. In this role, you will guide the design vision from concept through execution, ensuring high standards of visual quality, consistency, and scalability across web, mobile, and responsive platforms.

You will partner closely with Product, UX, Engineering, and Creative teams to translate broader product goals into thoughtful visual solutions. As a design leader, you will also lead and mentor design teams, provide direction and feedback, influence stakeholders, and help establish strong design practices across projects.

What you’ll be doing.

• Lead the visual design direction across digital products, platforms, and experiences.
• Lead, mentor, and provide creative direction to visual designers throughout the design process.
• Build, evolve, and maintain scalable design systems and reusable UI components.
• Translate product and platform goals into cohesive, high-quality visual experiences.
• Work closely with Product, UX, and Engineering teams to develop solutions that balance user needs, business goals, and technical considerations.
• Apply strong systems thinking across detailed UI execution and broader product ecosystems.
• Ensure consistency, accessibility, usability, and quality throughout the experience.
• Lead projects from concept through execution while maintaining a strong visual vision and design quality.
• Communicate design decisions, articulate trade-offs, and provide clear rationale to clients and stakeholders.
• Establish design direction, review work, and provide constructive feedback to ensure consistency across deliverables.
• Collaborate effectively in Agile, fast-paced, and remote environments.
• Participate in a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous creative improvement.

What we’d like to see.

• 5–8+ years of experience designing digital products across web, mobile, and responsive platforms.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring visual design teams, providing creative direction and establishing design standards.
• Strong expertise in building, evolving, and maintaining scalable Design Systems and reusable UI components.
• Experience working on complex product ecosystems in close collaboration with Product, UX, and Engineering teams.
• Strong systems thinking, balancing detailed UI execution with broader product and platform goals.
• Solid understanding of interaction design, accessibility, usability, and user-centered design principles.
• Ability to clearly communicate design decisions, articulate trade-offs, and demonstrate ownership throughout the design process.
• Experience taking projects from concept through execution while maintaining high visual quality and consistency.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.
• Comfortable working in Agile, fast-paced, and remote environments.

This role is currently not available for hire or work in New Mexico, and Hawaii, USA.