Senior Visual Designer

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Paylocity is a cloud-based software company that creates customized HR solutions for small to mid-sized organizations. Our workplace enhances communication and enables employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere. Our award-winning culture ensures everyone has a voice and feels truly welcome. Join Paylocity as we shape the future of technology and the workplace!

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.

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User Experience is the function that applies principles and techniques of discovery, research, design, and content strategy to define the experience a user has in a product.

What You'll Do

• Define and evolve the visual language of our design system across typography, color, spacing, motion, and shape
• Design, maintain, and expand a robust icon and illustration library that reflects brand values and product needs
• Deliver high-quality, polished visual assets for components, states, and patterns used across web and mobile
• Create and document visual specs and reference design for Figma libraries, ensuring consistency and scalability
• Collaborate with Marketing, Product and UX leadership to ensure consistency across the end-to-end experience
• Develop visual guidance, templates, and signature moments that drive brand expression across the product
• Collaborate with product designers, UX writers, and engineers to ensure visual integrity from design through implementation
• Conduct visual audits and accessibility reviews to identify opportunities for refinement and alignment
• Serve as a craft mentor, helping raise the bar for visual design across the org

Required Experience

• 5–8+ years of experience in visual, brand, or product design with a strong systems or platform focus
• An exceptional portfolio showcasing visual craft, icon/illustration design, and system-level thinking
• Deep expertise in layout, color, typography, visual hierarchy, and composition
• Demonstrated ability to design cohesive icon sets and product illustrations that work across scales and platforms
• Mastery of Figma and vector-based tools (e.g., Illustrator, Affinity Designer)
• Experience contributing to or maintaining visual design standards in a systemized product environment
• Strong ability to give and receive design critique with empathy and clarity
• A collaborative outlook and an ability to advocate for design quality across disciplines

Preferred Experience

• Experience creating and maintaining components in a design system (Figma variants, auto layout, etc.)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies or how visual design translates into code (React, HTML/CSS)
• Motion design or micro-interaction skills using tools like After Effects, Lottie, or Framer
• Strong understanding of accessibility best practices and how they intersect with visual design
• Background in brand design or marketing visuals that inform product expression

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact accessibility@paylocity.com.