Advanced Visual Designer

Overview

Our goal is to become our industry’s leader in exceptional digital experiences. To get there, we’re putting strategy, research, design principles, and technical innovation at the center of everything we do. But we need exceptional digital professionals—like you—to bring our process to life.

What Will You Do?

As a Visual Designer, you instinctively weave iconography, typography, color, space, and texture together to simplify and improve how our customers navigate our products and services. You’ll use your expertise to delight users with designs that inspire, engage, and excite.

You are comfortable operating in agile team environments and iterative design processes. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders to analyze, design, and convey your mobile and responsive design vision. As a natural problem solver, communicator, and facilitator, you will be involved in every step of the product lifecycle—from idea generation to final implementation.

Visual Design Strategy

• Spatial & Data Layouts: Understand visual-spatial displays to improve user comprehension and task performance, including using dynamic visualizations to support analytic thinking with large datasets.

• Scalable Systems: Create reusable visual components considering the broader context to drive efficiency and consistency across platforms.

• Stakeholder Facilitation: Facilitate ideation sessions, collaborative work activities, and present visual design work to senior stakeholders.

Visual Design Creation

• Data-Informed Artifacts: Apply visual design theory, research data, and best practices to craft high-complexity digital artifacts (web or native app) that exchange information, elicit emotion, and facilitate interaction.

• Prototyping & Specs: Produce low-fidelity sketches, high-fidelity mock-ups, and interactive prototypes to communicate design intent and deliver specs for development.

• Design Leadership & Audits: Facilitate design critiques, evaluate designs for inclusivity, provide expert guidance to cross-functional teams, and contribute practical direction on RBC’s visual communication standards, tools, and processes.

Research and Testing

• User Validation: Facilitate usability testing sessions and participate in or initiate user research activities.

• Competitive & Quality Audits: Research visual design and communication strategies across the financial services sector, perform competitive audits tied to business goals, and conduct visual design quality audits when appropriate.

What’s in It for You?

• Inclusive Culture: Work in an environment where designers feel included, valued, and heard, surrounded by supportive peers who excel in their field.

• Scale & Impact: Create solutions used by millions of people while contributing to a global digital leader that genuinely prioritizes customer experience.

• Innovation: Partner with a forward-thinking team pushing the boundaries of digital product design to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve.

Must-Haves

• Education & Experience: BA/BS degree in Design (e.g., Interaction, Graphic, Visual Communications, Product, Industrial), HCI, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

• Portfolio: A portfolio demonstrating strong web and/or mobile digital design samples.

• Design Expertise & Tools: Solid mastery of core design principles (typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, color theory, whitespace) and tools such as Figma, Mural, and UserTesting.com.

• Technical Understanding: Proven understanding of responsive design practices and experience working within an agile framework.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience designing outstanding digital products and end-to-end customer experiences.

• Proven ability to articulate conceptual ideas and design rationale clearly within a user-centered design process.

• Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.

About Aquent:

Aquent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. 

Our eligible talent have access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match.

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.