Principal Visual & Emerging Designer in Toronto

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. We are currently seeking a Principal Visual & Emerging Designer (grade 12) to join our team in Toronto, Ontario.

As an Experience Designer, you’ll become part of our growing design practice, helping Launch by NTT DATA create best-in-class digital customer, employee, and user experiences. You’ll support initiatives, large and small, to define cross-channel experience strategies and user experience designs that embrace the intersection of people, process, business, and technology. Our employee culture is built on learning, growth, transparency, and empathy.

Once you are here, you will:

• Bring big-picture strategic thinking to how an engagement is framed, then deliver the premium visual work that brings it to life.
• Own hands-on delivery of premium visual design work on priority client engagements, setting and defending the visual quality bar for the project.
• Lead visual direction and critique across designers and disciplines on your engagements, raising the bar on craft for everyone around you.
• Use storytelling, prototypes, and direction-setting to help sell ideas, build excitement, and secure buy-in during client conversations and pursuits.
• Partner closely with product managers, strategy leads, and engineering to translate visual decisions into usable, feasible, on-brand solutions.
• Bring AI and emerging design tools into discovery, ideation, and production work with sound judgment on quality, accuracy, and accessibility, and share what’s working with the broader team.
• Coach designers on craft, presentation, and storytelling through critique and day-to-day collaboration.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Strong portfolio and experience including art direction and creative concepting.
• Creating and implementing design systems.
• Compelling visual design across any screen size or form factor.
• Realistic and interactive prototypes.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal/written) to present complex technical concepts to non-technical individuals.
• Experience translating visual and craft decisions into a clear business rationale that clients and stakeholders can act on.
• Technical feasibility understanding and ability to communicate successfully with engineering.
• Experience with inclusive and accessible design practices.
• Independently drive the design review cycle and align on design requirements/decisions with stakeholders.
• Comfort operating across the full arc of a project, from framing the problem through shipping the polished execution.
• Ability to multi-task and stay deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within allotted timeframes.
• Growing fluency with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools.
• Experience creating detailed, structured design specifications that hand off cleanly to engineering.
• 10+ years of work experience as a visual designer, product designer, or equivalent role.
• 10+ years familiarity with common design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Sketch, Miro, etc.
• Bachelor’s and/or graduate degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years with Portfolio demonstrating examples of work product and process.
• 10+ years demonstrated experience leading visual direction on individual client engagements.

Location: Remote — United States or Canada; Toronto or Vancouver preferred for Canada-based candidates. Occasional client travel may be required.

Applications should include resume and portfolio of work. Must reside in the United States or Canada.

NTT DATA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.