Senior Visual Communication Designer

🏢 Ideo · 📍 Shanghai, China

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Senior Visual Communication Designer

In a nutshell:

IDEO Shanghai is in search of a Senior Visual Communication Designer who will inspire and move both teams and clients using the craft of visual communication.

Why is this role important for IDEO’s work?

Visual Communication Designer makes the biggest impact to solving complex challenges by helping to bring ideas to life visually. We count on them to embody the belief that Creativity can give simple, human and delightful answers to the most complex problems in the world and encourage others to be creative as well by applying design to systemic problems and making the answer visual and tangible.

Once here you will:

Be called upon to work or consult on a wide range of things: brand identities and full brand implementation, graphics for retail spaces, packaging, workbooks and publications, rapid prototypes for consumer testing, illustrations of business ecosystems, exhibition graphics, user interfaces and even rolling your sleeves up to help create beautiful presentation decks.
Work seamlessly with people come from diverse backgrounds to tackle complex challenge (including but not limited to Industrial Designer, Design Researcher, Business designer, Interaction Designer and Environments Designer);
Get exposure to and involvement with all aspects of the design consultancy projects: research, inspiration gathering, brainstorm, strategy defining, concept development, prototyping etc..
Go out in the field and build empathy with users through activities like observing the life of a cosplay model and riding a car with a professional race car driver;

What does IDEO offer you?

IDEO is a place unlike any other. It’s a place where you can solve diverse, complex challenges for our clients or the organization, alongside thoughtful, intelligent individuals who lead with curiosity, empathy, and optimism. Sure we work hard, but we also intentionally craft moments that allow our c

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating human-centered design capabilities, collaborative synthesis of ambiguous problems, and the humility to prototype and fail fast.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Being overly attached to one's own ideas rather than embracing team iteration and user feedback.
2. Approaching design through a purely aesthetic lens without grounding it in rigorous behavioral insights and business viability.
3. Arrogance or lack of self-awareness during collaborative workshop or critique rounds.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I leverage human-centered design to cut through ambiguity, translating deep user empathy into tangible, game-changing prototypes.

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