Visual Designer, Web

Shape how one of the web’s most influential technology brands looks and feels

Vercel is looking for a Visual Designer to join its Website Design Engineering team and help define the visual direction of the brand across the web and beyond.

Your work will live across Vercel.com, Next.js, major product launches and Ship, but the scope extends much further — from motion and illustration to launch films, events, 3D work and brand collaborations.

This is first and foremost a visual design role. Vercel is looking for exceptional creative judgment and craft, not a designer who happens to code.

What you'll be designing

You'll work closely with Vercel's design engineers to take ideas from early creative direction through to experiences that ship on the real web.

Your work will include:

• Defining the visual language across Vercel's highest-profile web experiences.
• Creating landing pages and digital experiences for major product launches.
• Developing memorable hero experiences, animations and launch moments.
• Exploring motion, illustration, 3D and interaction as part of the broader brand.
• Designing experiences that extend beyond the screen into events and physical environments.
• Creating work for brand partnerships and other high-visibility initiatives.
• Establishing typography, composition, motion and visual details that reinforce Vercel's identity.
• Building reusable visual patterns rather than treating every project as an isolated piece.
• Collaborating directly with design engineers as concepts move into production.
• Contributing ideas and patterns strong enough to influence Vercel's wider Geist design system.

A visual designer who understands the web

Vercel isn't hiring a developer disguised as a designer.

Coding is not required for the role. Instead, they're looking for someone with a distinctive visual point of view who understands the web well enough to design ambitiously while knowing how digital experiences behave once they're built.

You'll work alongside engineers who own production implementation, while still having the freedom to prototype or take an idea into code yourself if that's part of how you like to work.

Experience with React, Tailwind or Next.js is therefore a bonus rather than a requirement.

What they're looking for

You should have 8+ years of design experience and a portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual work, particularly experiences that have actually shipped on the web.

Vercel is looking for breadth as well as depth. Your portfolio should ideally extend beyond conventional web layouts into areas such as motion, 3D, illustration, interaction, identity, environmental design or events.

Strong systems thinking is also important. You should be comfortable creating patterns and components that contribute to a broader visual language rather than producing one-off solutions.

Experience shaping major launches, events or brand collaborations under real deadlines will be particularly relevant.

You'll stand out if...

You've worked within technology, SaaS, B2B or developer-focused products and understand the relationship between visual design and implementation.

Experience contributing to a large-scale design system is valuable, as is the ability to prototype ideas directly in code.

Familiarity with Vercel and its products is another advantage.

Above all, Vercel is looking for someone with original ideas and a strong visual eye who can raise the quality bar across some of the company's most visible experiences.

About Vercel

Vercel builds infrastructure and tools for creating and deploying modern web applications. Its products include Next.js, v0 and AI SDK, and its technology is used by developers and companies around the world.

The company is increasingly focused on the emerging world of AI agents and how software will be built, extended and operated as AI becomes a more fundamental part of product development.

Vercel offers flexible time off, healthcare benefits, professional development support, equipment and a work-from-home budget.

The San Francisco base salary range is $208,000–$312,000, with compensation adjusted according to location. The overall package may also include equity, benefits and additional variable compensation.

The role can be fully remote for candidates outside the commuting range of Vercel's hubs. Employees based close to the San Francisco, New York, London or Berlin offices follow designated in-office collaboration days.

Vercel is an equal-opportunity employer and encourages candidates to apply even if they don't meet every qualification listed.