Senior Designer

Summary

Join AKQA as a Freelance Senior UI Designer and contribute to a flagship digital product for a major client. This is a remote role, working within Eastern Time (ET) hours, starting ASAP through September 2025. You will lead UI design, champion the design system, collaborate with various teams, and ensure high-quality, accessible designs. The ideal candidate possesses extensive UI design experience, deep design systems expertise, and strong collaboration skills. A compelling portfolio showcasing expertise in UI design, visual hierarchy, typography, color theory, and interaction design for complex digital products is required. The role demands proficiency in modern design tools and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

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
• Duration: ASAP through end of September, 2025
• Working Hours: Must be able to work effectively within Eastern Time (ET) hours
• Location: Remote

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

Weekly Rate: $2,400 - $3,000, depending on experience