Senior Designer

Summary

Join AKQA as a Freelance Senior UI Designer and contribute to a flagship digital product for a long-standing client. This role requires leading UI design, mastering design systems, collaborating with various teams, and contributing strategically to product evolution. You will ensure design quality, create prototypes, and maintain comprehensive documentation. Remote work is supported, but collaboration within Eastern Time (ET) hours is essential. The contract runs from ASAP through the end of 2025. This is a highly impactful role for a passionate and experienced UI designer.

Requirements

• Extensive UI Design Experience: A compelling portfolio showcasing a strong foundation in user interface design, visual hierarchy, typography, color theory, and interaction design for complex digital products
• Deep Design Systems Expertise: Demonstrated experience working within, contributing to, and evolving robust design systems. You understand the principles of component-based design, tokenization, and the importance of consistency at scale
• Digital Product Focus: Proven experience designing for web and mobile applications, with a strong understanding of platform-specific guidelines and best practices
• Collaborative Spirit: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions, receive feedback constructively, and work seamlessly within a multidisciplinary team
• Tool Proficiency: Expert-level proficiency with modern design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD) and prototyping tools
• Problem-Solving Acumen: A proactive and analytical approach to identifying user needs and translating them into effective design solutions
• Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, managing multiple priorities and delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines
• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant professional experience in UI design, with a significant portion dedicated to design systems

Responsibilities

• Lead UI Design: Drive the visual and interactive design of key features and components for a high-profile digital product, ensuring exceptional user experiences and brand consistency
• Design Systems Mastery: Act as a champion and hands-on contributor to our existing design system, ensuring its integrity, scalability, and adoption across the product. This includes contributing new components, refining existing ones, and documenting usage guidelines
• Collaborate & Innovate: Work closely with product managers, developers, and other designers to translate complex requirements into intuitive, elegant, and user-centric interfaces
• Strategic Contribution: Participate in strategic discussions around product evolution, bringing a strong UI and design system perspective to the table
• Quality Assurance: Maintain an exacting eye for detail, ensuring that all design outputs are pixel-perfect, adhere to accessibility standards, and are optimized for various platforms
• Prototyping & Testing: Create interactive prototypes to convey design concepts, user flows, and micro-interactions, facilitating user testing and stakeholder feedback
• Documentation: Contribute to comprehensive design documentation, ensuring clarity and consistency for development teams and future design iterations

Benefits

• Remote work is fully supported
• Weekly Rate: $2,400 - $3,200, depending on experience