Senior Visual Systems Designer

ABOUT THE TEAM At Mural, we’re reimagining how teams think and create together. The Design and Research team brings clarity to complexity, shaping experiences that help people collaborate, ideate, and solve problems visually. We partner deeply with engineering, product, and research to invent the next generation of collaborative work combining craft, systems thinking, and bold exploration. YOUR MISSION You’ll define and evolve the visual foundation of Mural’s product experience. You’ll own the visual language that product teams rely on every day, including creating custom iconography and digital stickers for our core product offering. You’ll create simple, yet scalable color systems, typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy. Your work will ensure that Mural’s visual system feels modern, consistent, intentional, and human across surfaces and use cases. This role is for a designer who obsesses over craft and precision, but thinks in systems rather than one-off artifacts. You’ll design visual rules that scale across teams, products, and contexts, while leaving room for expression and evolution. You’ll be successful if you can balance rigor with flexibility, and if you care as much about how a system gets used as how it looks. WHAT YOU'LL DO Player Responsibilities (Individual Contributor Work): - Design and maintain Mural’s visual system, including iconography, digital stickers, color palettes, typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy. - Create and evolve a cohesive icon and customer-facing illustration system that supports clarity, accessibility, and scalability across the product. - Define visual patterns and guidelines that help product designers build consistent, high-quality interfaces. - Partner with design systems design leads and front-end engineers to ensure accurate implementation and long-term maintainability. - Audit and refine existing product surfaces to improve visual consistency and reduce fragmentation. - Design visual tokens, assets, and specifications that support theming, customization, and internationalization. - Collaborate to produce clear documentation and examples that make visual standards easy to understand and adopt. Design & Research Team Contribution: - Raise the bar for visual craft across the design organization through critique, collaboration, and example. - Support product designers in applying the visual system thoughtfully, especially in complex or edge-case scenarios. - Partner with brand and marketing teams to align product visuals with broader brand expression where appropriate. Influencing Decisions: - Collaborate with product, accessibility, and engineering partners to ensure visual decisions support usability and inclusivity. - Advocate for visual quality and coherence as essential to product trust and usability. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 4+ years of experience in visual design, product design, or design systems roles, with a strong focus on visual craft. - Deep expertise in icon design, including creating cohesive icon sets that scale across products and contexts. - Strong understanding of typography, color theory, spacing, and visual hierarchy in digital products. - Experience designing and maintaining visual systems used by multiple teams. - Ability to think systemically about visual decisions and anticipate how they will be used and extended. - Strong attention to detail and a high bar for polish and consistency. - Experience collaborating closely with engineers and other designers in iterative environments. - Clear communication skills, especially when explaining visual rationale and tradeoffs. ALSO GREAT IF YOU BRING - Experience designing for accessibility, including color contrast, legibility, and motion considerations. - Familiarity with token-based design systems and theming frameworks. - Experience working on large-scale SaaS or enterprise products. - Background in brand systems or visual identity work applied to digital products. WHY YOU’LL LOVE MURAL You’ll help shape how million