Visual Designer

About This Role

This role is for a motion-forward Visual Designer who will elevate the quality and consistency of customer experiences across Affirm's product ecosystem. You will use motion to guide attention, explain product behavior, improve comprehension, and create moments of clarity and delight. The position sits at the intersection of product and brand, focusing on turning complex financial products into understandable, trustworthy, and memorable customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design motion-forward experiences across in-app surfaces, web, email, lifecycle communications, and product marketing, focusing 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

Requirements

• Strong craft in animation, visual storytelling, and illustration
• Deep motion and visual-design craft with UX thinking
• Understanding of design systems
• Ability to think holistically about end-to-end customer journeys
• Care deeply about craft
• Understand how thoughtful motion and visual systems can make experiences both functional and emotionally engaging

Benefits

• Simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure
• Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for expenses
• Supportive employee resource groups and community groups
• Generous time off
• Health benefits
• Mental healthcare programs
• Parental leave: 18 weeks’ paid leave for birth and non-birth parents, plus a 4-week return-to-work transition program at full base pay
• 20 company-wide paid away days

About the Company

Affirm connects brand promise to product reality, bringing clarity and cohesion to every moment, from discovery and onboarding to everyday use. The company partners with Product Design, Brand, Content Design, Engineering, and Product Marketing to create expressive, accessible, and scalable experiences across its ecosystem. Affirm elevates the quality of execution, builds visual systems that help teams move with consistency, and uses craft to guide attention, explain value, and create moments of confidence and delight, ensuring its products communicate clearly, feel unmistakably its own, and earn customer trust at every touchpoint.