AKQA

Senior Designer

AKQA$135K — $176K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in UI and visual design for digital products.
  • Expert-level skills in Figma, including design system architecture and component management.
  • Demonstrated experience contributing to design systems and maintaining design consistency.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration experience with UX, product, strategy, and engineering teams.
  • Portfolio showcasing compelling design solutions and user-centered design principles.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-quality UI and visual designs for various digital products.
  • Maintain and evolve a comprehensive design system focusing on scalability.
  • Translate UX resources into polished, user-friendly designs with pixel precision.
  • Create high-fidelity prototypes and interactive experiences using Figma.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate design decisions grounded in user needs.
  • Utilize AI tools to enhance the design workflow from research to prototyping.
  • Raise the quality and standards of design delivery within the project.

Benefits

  • Required in-office collaboration sessions to foster creativity and connection.
  • Monthly travel to client headquarters for hands-on collaboration.
  • Hybrid work environment to support work-life balance.
  • Flexible accommodations may be discussed during the interview process.
Full Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Designer to support one of the most globally recognized consumer brands in the world, a company with an enormous and deeply loyal customer base whose digital products and services touch millions of people every day. This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong design craft and systems thinking directly shape the experience of a massive, diverse audience. You will bring deep expertise in digital products and services as well as design systems, and you will work within a collaborative, fast-moving team environment. This is a freelance role running from July 2 through September 30, 2026.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS
  • Deliver high-quality UI and visual design across digital product surfaces, with a strong grounding in user-centered design principles and a meticulous eye for craft
  • Contribute to, maintain, and evolve a sophisticated design system, working confidently across components, tokens, patterns, variants, and states with a focus on scalability and consistency
  • Translate UX direction and wireframes into polished, pixel-precise designs that are both on-brand and highly usable
  • Develop and deliver high-fidelity prototypes and interactive experiences primarily utilizing Figma
  • Work both strategically and tactically, weighing tradeoffs and exploring multiple solution concepts across a complex ecosystem of digital products and services
  • Collaborate closely with UX designers, product managers, strategists, and engineers to ensure design decisions are well-integrated and grounded in user needs
  • Adept at utilizing AI tools to inform and streamline the design process, from research to prototyping
  • Contribute to continuously raising the bar for design quality, process, and delivery standards within the engagement


QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS
  • A compelling portfolio of distinctive work demonstrating strong design craft across digital products and services, with clear evidence of design systems experience
  • Expert-level Figma skills, including advanced component management, variables, libraries, and design system architecture
  • Able to develop simple and elegant design solutions to complex design problems
  • Comfortable working within a large, complex consumer brand with established visual and design guidelines, and skilled at designing compellingly within those guardrails
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering across UX, product, strategy, and engineering
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Fosters progressive and limitless thinking


Location & Commitment
  • West Coast based; must be available during Pacific Time working hours
    • Monthly travel to client headquarters for collaborative working sessions of a few days at a time
  • July 2, 2026 through September 30, 2026
  • 40 hours/week
  • Expected weekly compensation: 2,600 to 3,400


We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

About AKQA

AKQA is a digital marketing agency that provides services such as branding, web design, and social media marketing. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in London, England. AKQA has worked with clients such as Nike, Google, and Xbox. In 2012, the company was acquired by WPP, a British multinational advertising and public relations company.
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2,200 employees
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Founded
1994

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