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Who We Are

Accenture Song accelerates growth and delivers valueforclients through sustained customer relevance. Ourexpertisespans the full spectrumofcreative, strategy, and technology, enabling brands to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. With deep industry knowledge, innovative thinking, and a passion for craft, we create work that resonates-driving transformation, engagement, and results.

Design @ Accenture Song

We build brands throughexperiences, storytelling, and design,leveragingemerging technology and media to create meaningful impact. The world's most innovative brands choose Accenture Song for our commitmenttopushing creative boundaries.

Our team ofmultidisciplinary designersexplores the intersection ofculture, technology, and human experience.We craftconcept-driven work that transcends trends,focusing onstrategic, systematic, and compelling designsolutions. Our goal is to createaward-winning, career-defining work that shapes the future of brands.

About the Role

As aSenior Designer,you will play a key role in shaping and evolving brand identities, design systems, and visual ecosystems across touchpoints. This role requires exceptional art direction skills and a strong command of AI-driven content creation, particularly in shaping photographic and image-based visual systems within scalable brand platforms.

You'lllead concept development, translating strategic insights into distinctive brand worlds, identity systems, and flexible visual frameworks that extend beyond campaign-driven work. You will define and articulate clear visual territories,establishingmood, tone, casting sensibility, composition, and narrative direction, embedding these principles into long-term brand foundations rather than one-off executions.

With a strong understanding of storytelling, branding, and systems thinking, you will confidently present ideas to clients and mentor junior designers, raising thebar for art direction and integrating AI-enabled content workflows into the team's brand design process.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as achampion and guardian of clients' brand identities,ensuring consistency and creative excellence.

• Develop high-level creative concepts with minimal oversight, bringing fresh, unexpected ideas to the table.

• Lead the development of concept-driven brand identities and scalable design systems.

• Define forward-thinking art direction frameworks that guide photography, image-making, and content ecosystems across brand platforms.

• Translate strategic narratives into distinctive, ownable visual languages that flex across digital, physical, and content environments.

• Establish clear visual territories through mood systems, reference frameworks, compositional principles, and narrative guidelines.

• Collaborate across disciplines-includingstrategy, copywriting, motion, and technology-to build holistic brand experiences.

• Distinguish between campaign-driven design and long-term brand ecosystems, adapting your approach accordingly.

• Createmulti-faceted design deliverables, frombrand audits and identity systems to retail experiences and CRM campaigns.

• Balance multiple projects and clients, delivering compelling creative solutions on tight deadlines.

• Produceinspiring, provocative, and disruptive work that elevates brands and engages audiences.

• Leverage AI-powered content creation tools to concept, visualize, and prototype brand directions and scalable content systems.

• Help define best practices for integrating AI into the brand design and conceptual development process in a craft-driven and responsible way.

• Elevate the team's art direction capabilities, particularly in photography and AI-enabled image creation.

What You Bring

Basic Qualifications

• A portfolio thatdemonstratesconcept-driven brand identity work, strong art direction thinking, and the ability to build cohesive visual systems that scale across touchpoints.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in an agency, design studio, or related creative field.

• Deep understanding of thecreative process-beyond justcampaign executionand production design.

• Ability to work independentlywhile contributing meaningfully to a collaborative team environment.

• Strongdesignsensibility, with an ability to craft visually stunning and strategically sound work.

• ExpertproficiencyinFigma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

• Proven experience developing brand identities and design systems, not just campaign-level creative.

• Strong command of photographic language, visual storytelling, and contemporary content aesthetics.

• Demonstratedproficiencywith AI-powered content, prompting andimage generation platforms such asNanoBananna, Runway, Firefly, or similar, with the ability to integrate them into scalable brand and content workflows.

• Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work seamlessly with strategists, producers, developers, and writers.

• Experience inmotion design or 3Dis a plus.