Lead Visual & Emerging Designer (grade 11)

Req ID: 387770

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Lead Visual & Emerging Designer (grade 11) to join our team in Remote, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Launch – Design – Visual & Emerging Design Who we are: NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate

individuals who want to grow with us. Launch by NTT DATA is the

culmination of the company’s strategy to acquire and integrate theskills, experience, and technology of leading digital companies, backed

by NTT DATA’s core capabilities, global reach, and depth.

How you’ll help us: As an Experience Designer, you’ll become part of our growing design practice, helping Launch by NTT DATA create best-in-class digital customer, employee, and user experiences. You’ll support initiatives,large and small, to define cross-channel experience strategies and user experience designs that embrace the intersection of people, process,

business, and technology. Our employee culture is built on learning, growth, transparency, and empathy. We hope you’ll join us to help shape it more.

How we’ll help you: You’ll lead visual direction on the work our clients see and care about most, working closely with the Principal Designers and Directors shaping our AI-native design standards right now. Principal is a real stretch from here, not a guaranteed next step, but our design career map lays out exactly what it takes, so you’ll always know what you’re working toward and how close you are.

Once you are here, you will:

• Bring big-picture strategic thinking to how an engagement is framed, then deliver the premium visual work that brings it to life
• Own hands-on delivery of premium visual design work on priority client engagements, setting and defending the visual quality bar for the project
• Lead visual direction and critique across designers and disciplines on your engagements, raising the bar on craft for everyone around you
• Use storytelling, prototypes, and direction-setting to help sell ideas, build excitement, and secure buy-in during client conversations and pursuits
• Partner closely with product managers, strategy leads, and engineering to translate visual decisions into usable, feasible, on-brand solutions
• Bring AI and emerging design tools into discovery, ideation, and production work with sound judgment on quality, accuracy, and accessibility, and share what’s working with the broader team
• Coach designers on craft, presentation, and storytelling through critique and day-to-day collaboration

Preferred Qualifications Strong portfolio and experience including:

• Art direction and creative concepting
• Creating and implementing design systems
• Compelling visual design across any screen size or form factor
• Realistic and interactive prototypes
• Excellent communication skills (verbal/written) to present complex technical concepts to non-technical individuals, using persuasion and tact in orchestrating design objectives and direction
• Experience translating visual and craft decisions into a clear business rationale that clients and stakeholders can act on
• Technical feasibility understanding and ability to communicate successfully with engineering
• Experience with inclusive and accessible design practices
• Independently drive the design review cycle and align on design requirements/decisions with stakeholders
• Comfort operating across the full arc of a project, from framing the problem through shipping the polished execution
• Ability to multi-task and stay deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within allotted timeframes
• Growing fluency with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools, with sound judgment evaluating AI-generated output and curiosity to adopt them responsibly into everyday workflows
• Experience creating detailed, structured design specifications that hand off cleanly to engineering, especially valuable if you’ve worked with distributed or offshore development teams

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of work experience as a visual designer, product designer, or equivalent role
• 8+ years familiarity with common design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Sketch, Miro, etc.
• Bachelor’s and/or graduate degree in a…