Visual Designer

Visual Design turns complex financial products into experiences customers can understand, trust, and remember
Through motion, illustration, and visual storytelling, we connect brand promise to product reality, bringing clarity and cohesion to every moment, from discovery and onboarding to everyday use
We partner with Product Design, Brand, Content Design, Engineering, and Product Marketing to create expressive, accessible, and scalable experiences across affirm’s ecosystem
Our role is to elevate the quality of execution, build visual systems that help teams move with consistency, and use craft to guide attention, explain value, and create moments of confidence and delight
We ensure affirm does not simply work well - it communicates clearly, feels unmistakably our own, and earns customer trust at every touchpoint
We’re looking for a motion-forward Visual Designer who brings strong craft in animation, visual storytelling, and illustration. You’ll help elevate the quality and consistency of customer experiences across affirm’s product ecosystem, using motion to guide attention, explain product behavior, improve comprehension, and create moments of clarity and delight
This role sits at the intersection of product and brand. Your work will range from in-product interactions and animated illustrations to web, email communications, lifecycle journeys, and product launches. You’ll pair deep motion and visual-design craft with UX thinking and an understanding of design systems to create experiences that are cohesive, accessible, scalable, and purposeful
You think holistically about end-to-end customer journeys, care deeply about craft, and understand how thoughtful motion and visual systems can make experiences both functional and emotionally engaging
Design motion-forward experiences across in-app surfaces, web, email, lifecycle comms, and product marketing, with a focus on clarity, accessibility, performance, and storytelling
Create animations, motion studies, animated illustrations, iconography, and interaction patterns that explain product behavior, guide attention, and improve customer comprehension
Own defined visual and motion-design projects from concept and storyboarding through production and implementation, maintaining a consistently high level of craft
Contribute to product-design initiatives by mapping user flows, developing interaction concepts, and carrying solutions through high-fidelity design and prototyping
Create and extend reusable visual assets, motion patterns, guidelines, and components that strengthen affirm’s product and communication systems
Collaborate with Product Design, Design Systems, Product, Engineering, Brand, Content Design, Lifecycle, and Growth partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences
Prepare production-ready assets and specifications, partnering with engineers to ensure motion and visual details are accessible, performant, and implemented as intended
Benefits   Compensation:
We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
Spending Wallets:
Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
Supportive Communities:
Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
Remote-first Workforce:
If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
Generous Time Off:
Take the time you need when life happens

Health Benefits:

Get a plan that fits your needs
Mental Healthcare:
Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
Parental Leave:
Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
Away Days:
We offer 20 company-wide paid days…