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About Intuit: Our mission is to power prosperity around the world. Intuit is the global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses prosper. We're a mission-driven, global financial technology company that creates products and tools to help you manage your money, get out of debt, and make smart financial decisions. We're known for products like QuickBooks, Mailchimp, TurboTax, and Credit Karma. At our core, we are deeply customer-obsessed, relentlessly focused on solving our customers' most important problems and tenaciously delivering profound benefits that help them prosper.
About the Team:
To predict the future, we must create it—and at Intuit, that’s exactly what we’re doing.
The CEO Transformation Office is a newly formed, high-impact organization reporting directly to the CEO. Its mission is to mobilize the company around what matters most, shape the market, and accelerate Intuit’s transformation into the world’s leading global financial platform and system of intelligence.
This team sits at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, creativity, and execution. We bring together communications, creative, narrative development, and flagship events and experiences under one unified organization to ensure Intuit shows up with clarity, consistency, and conviction—internally and externally. From customers and prospects to media and investors, we shape how Intuit’s vision comes to life in the world.
At the heart of our work is a bold future: surrounding customers with a virtual team of AI agents and human intelligence that does the work for them and powers their prosperity. To deliver on that promise, we operate with a high say/do ratio, a bias for action, and an uncompromising focus on impact. We don’t just tell the story—we help drive the outcomes.
Joining the CEO Transformation Office means working on the company’s most visible, mission-critical initiatives, partnering with senior leaders across the business, and helping define how Intuit’s strategy is experienced by the world. This is a team for builders, storytellers, and operators who want to shape the future—not react to it.
We are looking for a craft-obsessed Principal Design Lead to translate our company narrative into world-class visual expressions. In this role, you will be an engine for the graphic identity of our story, ensuring our mission and innovations are communicated through sophisticated, cohesive design. You will bring to life narratives that galvanize our employees and position Intuit externally as a leader in the era of AI.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Visual Storytelling: Develop high-end graphic expressions that translate complex business strategies into compelling visual narratives for internal and external audiences.
- System Evolution: Help evolve and scale Intuit's brand identity into a dynamic and ownable visual system that brings our personality to life across static touchpoints.
- Creative Partnership: Act as a strategic conceptual partner to other creative leads across copy, video, motion design, providing the graphic depth and quality needed for award-winning work.
- Design Excellence at Scale: Maintain and model a high bar for quality and taste, influencing the visual expression of cross-functional projects to ensure consistency and excellence.
Craft & Leadership
- Quality & Taste: Maintain and model an exceptionally high bar for design craft, typography, and layout.
- Strategic Pitching: Present design concepts and the strategic rationale behind them to senior leadership.
- Operational Agility: Partner with operations to ensure your creative work is delivered at speed and scale without sacrificing excellence.
- Trend Awareness: Track industry design trends and best practices to keep Intuit’s visual language modern and innovative.
Qualifications
- Experience: 10-15 years of design experience within a high-growth brand team or a top-tier creative agency.
- Taste: You know what great looks like and apply deep expertise in branding, layout, typography, and the creation of comprehensive design systems.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills, with a proven ability to articulate a strategic design approach.
- Collaboration: A positive, kind team player who is optimistic and able to overcome obstacles through creative problem-solving.
- Adaptability: Experience working in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment with multiple stakeholders.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is:
- Bay Area California: $220,500 - $296,500
- Southern California: $218,000 - $295,000
Overview
About Intuit: Our mission is to power prosperity around the world. Intuit is the global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses prosper. We're a mission-driven, global financial technology company that creates products and tools to help you manage your money, get out of debt, and make smart financial decisions. We're known for products like QuickBooks, Mailchimp, TurboTax, and Credit Karma. At our core, we are deeply customer-obsessed, relentlessly focused on solving our customers' most important problems and tenaciously delivering profound benefits that help them prosper.
About the Team:
To predict the future, we must create it—and at Intuit, that’s exactly what we’re doing.
The CEO Transformation Office is a newly formed, high-impact organization reporting directly to the CEO. Its mission is to mobilize the company around what matters most, shape the market, and accelerate Intuit’s transformation into the world’s leading global financial platform and system of intelligence.
This team sits at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, creativity, and execution. We bring together communications, creative, narrative development, and flagship events and experiences under one unified organization to ensure Intuit shows up with clarity, consistency, and conviction—internally and externally. From customers and prospects to media and investors, we shape how Intuit’s vision comes to life in the world.
At the heart of our work is a bold future: surrounding customers with a virtual team of AI agents and human intelligence that does the work for them and powers their prosperity. To deliver on that promise, we operate with a high say/do ratio, a bias for action, and an uncompromising focus on impact. We don’t just tell the story—we help drive the outcomes.
Joining the CEO Transformation Office means working on the company’s most visible, mission-critical initiatives, partnering with senior leaders across the business, and helping define how Intuit’s strategy is experienced by the world. This is a team for builders, storytellers, and operators who want to shape the future—not react to it.
We are looking for a craft-obsessed Principal Design Lead to translate our company narrative into world-class visual expressions. In this role, you will be an engine for the graphic identity of our story, ensuring our mission and innovations are communicated through sophisticated, cohesive design. You will bring to life narratives that galvanize our employees and position Intuit externally as a leader in the era of AI.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Visual Storytelling: Develop high-end graphic expressions that translate complex business strategies into compelling visual narratives for internal and external audiences.
- System Evolution: Help evolve and scale Intuit's brand identity into a dynamic and ownable visual system that brings our personality to life across static touchpoints.
- Creative Partnership: Act as a strategic conceptual partner to other creative leads across copy, video, motion design, providing the graphic depth and quality needed for award-winning work.
- Design Excellence at Scale: Maintain and model a high bar for quality and taste, influencing the visual expression of cross-functional projects to ensure consistency and excellence.
Craft & Leadership
- Quality & Taste: Maintain and model an exceptionally high bar for design craft, typography, and layout.
- Strategic Pitching: Present design concepts and the strategic rationale behind them to senior leadership.
- Operational Agility: Partner with operations to ensure your creative work is delivered at speed and scale without sacrificing excellence.
- Trend Awareness: Track industry design trends and best practices to keep Intuit’s visual language modern and innovative.
Qualifications
- Experience: 10-15 years of design experience within a high-growth brand team or a top-tier creative agency.
- Taste: You know what great looks like and apply deep expertise in branding, layout, typography, and the creation of comprehensive design systems.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills, with a proven ability to articulate a strategic design approach.
- Collaboration: A positive, kind team player who is optimistic and able to overcome obstacles through creative problem-solving.
- Adaptability: Experience working in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment with multiple stakeholders.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is:
- Bay Area California: $220,500 - $296,500
- Southern California: $218,000 - $295,000
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Design Lead
Document your design portfolio strategically
USCIS adjudicators reviewing your I-140 want evidence the role requires a specific degree, not just design talent. Organize your portfolio to show specialized discipline alignment, whether UX, product, brand, or spatial design, to support the specialty occupation framing.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Not every company that hires Design Leads has run a PERM before. Prioritize studios, tech companies, and consultancies that have filed PERM applications for design roles, since they already have the internal HR and legal infrastructure to sponsor you efficiently.
Search green card sponsoring roles on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters Design Lead roles by employers who have actively sponsored green cards, saving you from applying to companies that have no sponsorship infrastructure. Use it to identify which design teams have a real precedent for EB-2 or EB-3 filings.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 fit before accepting an offer
If your Design Lead role requires an advanced degree or you hold one, push for EB-2 classification, which skips the PERM recruitment advertising period in some cases via National Interest Waiver. EB-3 is broader but adds the supervised DOL recruitment stage regardless.
Verify the prevailing wage tier before negotiations
Your employer's PERM filing locks in a wage level using DOL data. Look up the Design Lead SOC code in the OFLC Wage Search before you negotiate your offer, so your target salary lands at or above the level the employer will certify to DOL.
Confirm your employer will file concurrently if your priority date allows
For most countries outside India and China, EB-3 priority dates for Design Leads are current, meaning your employer can file the I-140 and I-485 at the same time. Concurrent filing cuts months off your wait, so confirm this option during the offer discussion.
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Does a Design Lead role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Design Lead positions typically qualify under EB-3 as professional roles requiring a bachelor's degree in graphic design, industrial design, UX, or a related field. EB-2 is available if the role specifically requires an advanced degree or if your credentials and achievements meet the higher standard. Your employer's immigration attorney will determine the correct category based on the job description and your qualifications.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for a Design Lead?
An H-1B is a temporary, renewable status tied to a specific employer, subject to the annual lottery cap. A green card via PERM is permanent residency with no renewal and no cap concerns at the EB-3 level for most countries. The PERM process takes longer upfront, typically one to two years before the I-140 is even filed, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a status you need to maintain indefinitely.
What does the PERM recruitment process mean for Design Lead applicants?
Before your employer can file your PERM labor certification with DOL, they must conduct a supervised recruitment process to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role. This includes posting the Design Lead position through specific channels defined by DOL. You are not involved in this step directly, but the job duties and requirements advertised must match what you will actually do, so review the job description carefully before this phase begins.
How do I find Design Lead roles where the employer has green card sponsorship experience?
Migrate Mate lets you filter Design Lead positions by employers with documented green card sponsorship history, so you are not starting from scratch researching which companies have run PERM before. This is especially useful for design roles because many creative agencies and studios are willing to hire internationally but have never sponsored a permanent resident petition and lack the process infrastructure to do so.
Can I change employers after my I-140 is approved but before my green card is issued?
Yes. Once your I-140 has been approved for 180 days or more and your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, portability under AC21 allows you to move to a different Design Lead role with another employer in the same or a similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. The new role must be in the same broad design field, and you will need to notify USCIS of the change.
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