Senior Visual Designer

Who you are

• You will bring deep expertise in typography, color, composition, and motion to continuously raise the bar on Audible’s visual experience
• This is not a design systems maintenance role. This is a visual craft leadership role for someone with exceptional aesthetic sensibility, creative ambition, and the ability to push boundaries
• You thrive in ambiguity, moving with conviction in undefined spaces, forging creative direction from complexity and constraint
• You bring an extraordinary eye and exceptional taste to this work. You notice the rhythm across a screen, feel the emotional impact of imagery, and understand the difference a subtle detail can make
• You think in mood boards, type studies, and color palettes — and you know how to translate those big creative ideas into any moment of the product experience, from a hero surface to the smallest interaction, to make it feel more intentional, polished, and elevated
• As a collaborator and mentor, you know that constructive feedback and a growth mindset create an environment where everyone thrives
• You're ready to push your craft further, but the journey with your team is what drives you
• Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
• 7+ years of industry experience as a visual designer, product designer or similar role
• Experience designing and delivering digital products that align customer needs and business goals; illustrated with a portfolio
• Experience taking design problems and working with stakeholders and user research insights to craft design solutions grounded in customer needs and business goals
• Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high-quality output in all deliverables
• Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
• Experience in a range of design approaches, methods, and tools that you use to plan, concept, and prototype complex projects
• Experience delivering designs intended for a consumer market
• Experience designing for AI-enabled features

What the job involves

• As a Senior Visual Designer on Audible’s Experience Design team, you will be the creative force behind how Audible looks and feels — defining and evolving a visual language that elevates the storytelling experience across iOS, Android and web
• You’ll establish visual directions where no precedent exists — from refining the craft of today’s product to defining what Audible’s visual identity looks like in an AI-enabled future
• Your work will influence not only individual features, but how millions of customers experience the Audible brand through our products
• Every design decision you make will be grounded in a deep understanding of visual communication principles — turning rich customer insights into visually stunning experiences that bring our brand to life across every product touchpoint
• Your primary mission is to elevate the visual language of the product experience. You set the creative bar — establishing cohesive, premium visual directions when no playbook exists, taking creative risks, and articulating why a visual choice makes an experience better
• You don't simply apply design systems — you create the visual ideas that make systems worth scaling
• Master the fundamentals: Apply deep mastery of visual design fundamentals — typography, composition, spatial hierarchy, color theory, and scale — to create cohesive, innovative visual experiences that influence long-term organizational strategy
• Define and evolve our visual language : Push creative boundaries beyond established patterns to deliver a premium, emotionally resonant aesthetic for Audible’s product across all platforms
• Champion visual design excellence: Relentlessly raise the bar through bold creative exploration, emerging design trends, and strategic thinking — setting the standard for craft quality across the team
• Develop visual concepts and creative directions: Produce mood boards, type explorations, color studies, and high-fidelity visual explorations that articulate a clear, compelling visual point of view
• Bring visual storytelling into the product: Demonstrate subject matter expertise across visual design domains including graphic design, art direction, illustration, and visual storytelling — connecting Audible’s emotional brand to every screen
• Use motion with purpose: Create high-fidelity visual designs and interactive prototypes that demonstrate motion principles and micro-interactions, exploring new visual directions and validating design intent through stakeholder collaboration and user testing
• Shape our design system through craft: Contribute to the design system by translating visual principles into design tokens, reusable components, and patterns — ensuring consistency and quality across platforms while preserving creative intent
• Bring a forward-looking perspective: Shape the visual language for emerging experiences by developing a point of view on how visual design evolves in an AI-enabled product landscape
• Lead and mentor: Build relationships which provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of UX Designers
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Actively communicate with cross-functional teams, management, and research on complex user flows and commerce-driven projects