Senior Visual Designer - IBM Quantum

Introduction

IBM Research is shaping the future of computing by making quantum technology accessible to researchers, developers, and enterprises worldwide. Design plays a critical role in translating highly complex ideas into clear, engaging, and human-centered experiences across our products, platforms, and brand. On the Quantum team, you'll collaborate with leading scientists, engineers, and visionaries to push boundaries and turn ideas into reality. With a culture built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration, IBM Research offers the opportunity to grow your career while contributing to breakthroughs that transform industries and change the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a senior visual designer for IBM Quantum, you will work at the intersection of science, design, and culture to design experiences for one of the the most innovative technology initiatives at IBM. You will lead visual design strategy and execution across IBM Quantum digital experiences and products, driving innovation in visual expression and ensuring consistency across outputs. To achieve these goals you will partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and content strategists to shape experiences from concept through launch - balancing usability, technical feasibility, and craft.

Your primary responsibilities will include :

Designing and delivering high-quality visual and UX solutions for IBM Quantum products, including the developer platform, education platform, documentation, and marketing website.

Advocating and setting the standard for visual design excellence and UX pattern consistency across all IBM Quantum touch points.

Leading the design for the IBM Quantum website - managing design requests from various stakeholders, including marketing, comms, and product management

Helping define, maintain, and evolve IBM Quantum's design system, ensuring alignment with the broader IBM and Carbon Design Systems.

Translating complex, highly technical concepts into clear, intuitive, and elegant user experiences.

Giving and receiving thoughtful design feedback, contributing to a culture of critique, iteration, and continuous improvement.

Helping raise the overall quality bar for design through strong rationale, presentation, and collaboration.

Ensuring consistency and quality of development handoffs, and fostering alignment throughout the review and release processes.

Required technical and professional expertise

Exceptionally strong visual design skills, with deep expertise in typography, layout, composition, color, and attention to detail

Expert-level proficiency working with Figma, including working with components, and maintaining Figma libraries

Strong conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design end-to-end flows that simplify complex workflows

Demonstrated experience designing usable, scalable interfaces for digital products or platforms

Experience working with design systems, including contributing to their evolution; a solid understanding of system rules and the ability to form and articulate opinions about them

Self-motivated and collaborative, with strong communication, project, and time management skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

Basic familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML / CSS, JavaScript, React); enough to collaborate effectively with engineers and understand component constraints.

Experience designing for developer tools, cloud platforms, or other technical products.

Experience designing responsive, accessible interfaces and applying accessibility best practices.

Experience in project management and prioritization, and leading a team of designers in the timely execution of objectives.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.