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Visual Designer roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in design, visual communication, or a related field. Employers file a Labor Condition Application with the DOL before petitioning USCIS. Annual cap registrations open each March for an October 1 start date.
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26WD101847
Position Overview
At Autodesk, we do what no other company can: we help our customers design and make anything. As we continue to transform how customers experience Autodesk, we are investing in insight-driven product development, seamless digital experiences, and AI-powered innovation to help people achieve meaningful outcomes faster and smarter. To deliver on that vision, we need exceptional contributors and leaders who are curious, adaptable, customer-focused, and excited to help shape the future of work at Autodesk.
We are seeking a Principal Visual Experience Designer to operate at a creative leadership level as a highly strategic individual contributor, elevating the craft, quality, and consistency of visual design. In this role, you will partner with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to translate product strategy and interaction concepts into polished visual systems that delight users. You will influence product direction, shape cross-product experiences, help define a forward-looking visual design vision for AI-powered experiences, and raise the bar for visual quality across the organization.
Within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Experience Foundations (XF) organization, the Visual Experience Design (VXD) team plays a unique horizontal role—partnering across all AEC products to bring clarity, cohesion, and beauty to the ecosystem. Our mission is to deliver impact through delight and desirability, creating elegant, intuitive visual experiences that users love and trust.
This role is ideal for someone with exceptional visual craft and a strong point of view, who can influence others, identify opportunities to uplevel experiences, and contribute to a more cohesive, modern, and AI-forward design direction across AEC.
Responsibilities
- Design high-quality, visually refined experiences across workflows, features, and touchpoints that elevate usability and desirability
- Translate product strategy, interaction concepts, and emerging AI capabilities into clear, intuitive, and polished visual designs that support user confidence and trust
- Identify and drive “user delighter” opportunities—thoughtful details, patterns, and refinements that can scale across multiple AEC products
- Contribute to and leverage the Autodesk design system with scalable patterns and visual guidance to drive consistency, alignment, and efficiency across AEC while enabling product flexibility
- Partner closely with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to ensure visual design is aligned with user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
- Collaborate across teams to strengthen continuity and cohesion across the AEC product ecosystem
- Provide visual design leadership through craft—participating in critiques, offering guidance, and helping raise the quality bar across teams
- Translate complex workflows and concepts into elegant, understandable interfaces with strong attention to hierarchy, layout, and detail
- Create high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and specifications, and partner through implementation to ensure quality at launch
- Explore and help define visual patterns for AI-powered and adaptive experiences, including clarity, feedback, and trust
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in visual design, product design, UX/UI design, or related fields
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and thoughtful, high-quality execution across digital products
- Deep expertise in typography, color, composition, hierarchy, and interface design
- Experience in motion design, user interface animation, and micro interactions that deliver intuitive, delightful experiences
- Experience designing for complex products, workflows, or platform ecosystems in enterprise environments to improve consistency and cohesion
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence design decisions through strong rationale and craft
- Expert understanding of how visual design supports usability, accessibility, and interaction design, and the proven ability to apply insights strategically to influence product vision
- Experience contributing to design systems or scalable visual frameworks
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma
- Proficiency with AI tools and workflows, and sound judgment in applying them to visual design and prototyping process
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing AI-powered, adaptive, or context-aware experiences
- Experience mentoring designers or contributing to raising team craft standards
- Experience in the AEC industry
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $130,000 and $232,320. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification
This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
Job Requisition ID #
26WD101847
Position Overview
At Autodesk, we do what no other company can: we help our customers design and make anything. As we continue to transform how customers experience Autodesk, we are investing in insight-driven product development, seamless digital experiences, and AI-powered innovation to help people achieve meaningful outcomes faster and smarter. To deliver on that vision, we need exceptional contributors and leaders who are curious, adaptable, customer-focused, and excited to help shape the future of work at Autodesk.
We are seeking a Principal Visual Experience Designer to operate at a creative leadership level as a highly strategic individual contributor, elevating the craft, quality, and consistency of visual design. In this role, you will partner with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to translate product strategy and interaction concepts into polished visual systems that delight users. You will influence product direction, shape cross-product experiences, help define a forward-looking visual design vision for AI-powered experiences, and raise the bar for visual quality across the organization.
Within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Experience Foundations (XF) organization, the Visual Experience Design (VXD) team plays a unique horizontal role—partnering across all AEC products to bring clarity, cohesion, and beauty to the ecosystem. Our mission is to deliver impact through delight and desirability, creating elegant, intuitive visual experiences that users love and trust.
This role is ideal for someone with exceptional visual craft and a strong point of view, who can influence others, identify opportunities to uplevel experiences, and contribute to a more cohesive, modern, and AI-forward design direction across AEC.
Responsibilities
- Design high-quality, visually refined experiences across workflows, features, and touchpoints that elevate usability and desirability
- Translate product strategy, interaction concepts, and emerging AI capabilities into clear, intuitive, and polished visual designs that support user confidence and trust
- Identify and drive “user delighter” opportunities—thoughtful details, patterns, and refinements that can scale across multiple AEC products
- Contribute to and leverage the Autodesk design system with scalable patterns and visual guidance to drive consistency, alignment, and efficiency across AEC while enabling product flexibility
- Partner closely with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to ensure visual design is aligned with user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
- Collaborate across teams to strengthen continuity and cohesion across the AEC product ecosystem
- Provide visual design leadership through craft—participating in critiques, offering guidance, and helping raise the quality bar across teams
- Translate complex workflows and concepts into elegant, understandable interfaces with strong attention to hierarchy, layout, and detail
- Create high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and specifications, and partner through implementation to ensure quality at launch
- Explore and help define visual patterns for AI-powered and adaptive experiences, including clarity, feedback, and trust
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in visual design, product design, UX/UI design, or related fields
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and thoughtful, high-quality execution across digital products
- Deep expertise in typography, color, composition, hierarchy, and interface design
- Experience in motion design, user interface animation, and micro interactions that deliver intuitive, delightful experiences
- Experience designing for complex products, workflows, or platform ecosystems in enterprise environments to improve consistency and cohesion
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence design decisions through strong rationale and craft
- Expert understanding of how visual design supports usability, accessibility, and interaction design, and the proven ability to apply insights strategically to influence product vision
- Experience contributing to design systems or scalable visual frameworks
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma
- Proficiency with AI tools and workflows, and sound judgment in applying them to visual design and prototyping process
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing AI-powered, adaptive, or context-aware experiences
- Experience mentoring designers or contributing to raising team craft standards
- Experience in the AEC industry
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $130,000 and $232,320. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification
This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Visual Designer
Frame your portfolio around specialty occupation
USCIS evaluates whether Visual Designer work requires a specific bachelor's degree. Organize your portfolio to show UX systems, brand identity, or design systems work, not just execution tasks, so the specialty occupation argument is self-evident.
Verify LCA wage levels before negotiating salary
Your employer's LCA locks in a prevailing wage level before USCIS sees the petition. Run your job title and location through the OFLC Wage Search so you know whether you're being offered Level I or Level III wages before you accept.
Target employers with active design team LCA history
Use Migrate Mate to filter for employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for design roles. LCA history confirms an employer already understands the H-1B filing process and has sponsored comparable positions.
Check that your degree field directly maps to the role
A graphic design or visual communication degree supports a Visual Designer petition clearly. A general business or liberal arts degree may trigger a Request for Evidence. If your degree is adjacent, gather course transcripts showing design-specific coursework to document the connection.
Register in March, then plan your 60-day grace period
If you're on OPT when selected in the H-1B lottery, your OPT end date and the October 1 start date may not align cleanly. USCIS allows a 60-day grace period after OPT expires, so confirm your cap-gap coverage status with your employer's attorney early.
Ask about premium processing before signing an offer
Standard H-1B processing can take several months. Premium processing through USCIS guarantees a 15-business-day adjudication decision. For design roles that require a firm start date, confirm upfront whether your employer will pay the premium processing fee.
H-1B Visa Visual Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Visual Designer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as graphic design, visual communication, or interaction design. Roles focused on execution tasks with no degree requirement can face challenges. The O*NET profile for Visual Designers lists a bachelor's degree as the standard entry-level education, which supports the specialty occupation argument in the USCIS petition.
How do I find employers who have sponsored H-1B visas for Visual Designer roles?
Search Migrate Mate to browse Visual Designer job listings filtered by employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application filing history. LCA records are public DOL data, so you can confirm that an employer has filed for comparable design roles before you invest time in the application process.
Can a Visual Designer switch employers mid-H-1B without losing status?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer once they file a new H-1B petition on your behalf, as long as your previous petition was approved and you've been in valid H-1B status for at least 180 days. Your new employer must file before your current status expires to maintain continuous authorization.
What documents should a Visual Designer prepare to support an H-1B petition?
You'll need official transcripts showing a degree in a design-related field, a credential evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S., and a portfolio or work samples that demonstrate the specialized nature of your role. Your employer's attorney will also need a detailed job description showing the position requires a specific degree, not just design skills generally.
Does a freelance or contract Visual Designer background create problems for H-1B sponsorship?
It can. USCIS requires a traditional employer-employee relationship, meaning the sponsoring company must control your work. A history of independent freelance work doesn't disqualify you, but your offer must be for a full-time or part-time salaried position, not a contractor arrangement. Your employer's petition should document supervision, deliverables, and integration into the company's design team.