Visual Designer

Meta is looking for a Visual Designer to join Whats App to create illustration and icon systems. The role involves partnering with teams across Whats App to create system icons for various platforms, as well as illustrations in an established style. We’re looking for an experienced creative especially in illustration and iconography on product. The role includes executing creative briefs, working closely with cross‑functional partners, and ensuring quality throughout the entire creation process, including production responsibilities.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Brand Designers, Motion Designers, Product Designers, and Engineers, and provide a creative point of view to help grow and evolve the work from a design perspective.

• Lead and bring innovation to illustrations and icon systems, shaping a clear point of view for the product’s next phase
• Elevate the highest level of visual design craft across our products
• Establish concepts and illustrations that reflect product nuances and brand positioning
• Navigate complex cross‑functional partnerships and deliver practical solutions on time
• Collaborate closely with Product Designers, Content Strategists, Art Directors, and Creative Directors to understand how the product needs map within an illustration/animation system
• Help shape the vision for the next phase of our illustration, icon, and creative design systems—uniting how all aspects of the product (content, design, and illustration) work together, and how illustration can strengthen the user experience

• 5+ years of experience in design, with a focus on illustration and iconography in product
• A visual portfolio that demonstrates design in product illustration, iconography, and systems thinking
• Proficient with Figma, Adobe Illustrator (vector graphics), Photoshop
• Experience working on digital products (apps and/or operating systems)

• Android or iOS experiences
• AI Creative Work and/or Gen AI prompt engineering
• Experience designing typography (ideally typefaces/fonts)
• Lottie animation experiences
• Editorial illustrations with storyboarding

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and Whats App further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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$122,000/year to $175,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.