Senior visual designer

**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. **Your role and responsibilities** As a Visual Designer specializing in Accessibility, you will communicate intent and meaning through visual experiences that incite understanding and action from people. You will utilize your expertise in accessible visual design to create unified and compelling experiences that exemplify the convergence of user/market insights and IBM brand/design language. Your primary responsibilities will include: * Design Accessible Visual Experiences: Create visual experiences that unify and exemplify the convergence of user/market insights and IBM brand/design language, ensuring accessible use of color, color contrast, text and layout, motion and animation, and support for personalization. * Interpret Research Insights: Interpret research insights and build understanding of the subject matter to design for user and market resonance, considering the diverse ways people with disabilities and neurodivergent people consume visual content. * Translate Information into Visual Forms: Translate structural information into visual forms that make information compelling, easier to understand, and actionable, utilizing nuanced use of color, tone, layout, composition, imagery, typography, interactions, and motion. * Review Designs for Accessibility: Review designs for consistency with the IBM Accessibility Requirements, articulating the access implications of visual design choices and specifying design features needed for accessibility. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Exposure to Accessible Visual Design: Experience working with accessible visual design principles, including accessible use of color, color contrast, text and layout, motion and animation, and support for personalization. * Understanding of User Research: Exposure to interpreting research insights and building understanding of the subject matter to design for user and market resonance. * Visual Design Skills: Experience working with visual design elements, including nuanced use of color, tone, layout, composition, imagery, typography, interactions, and motion. * Accessibility Guidelines Knowledge: Familiarity with accessibility guidelines and requirements, such as the IBM Accessibility Requirements. * Design Analysis and Review: Experience reviewing designs for consistency with accessibility guidelines and articulating access implications of visual design choices. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Accessible Design Tools: Experience working with design tools that support accessible visual design, including those that provide color contrast analysis and accessibility audits. * Inclusive Design Principles: Exposure to designing for diverse user needs, including those related to disability and neurodiversity. * Personalization Techniques: Experience with design techniques that support personalization, allowing users to customize their visual experience. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.