Senior Designer

Summary

Join AKQA, a company that uses art and science to create innovative digital products and services, as a Senior Designer. This role focuses on a key client partnership, allowing you to contribute to impactful digital products. You will collaborate with a creative team to develop user-centered solutions and work on a wide range of projects. The position requires extensive UI design experience, design system expertise, and proficiency in design tools. You will lead UI design, champion the design system, collaborate with various teams, and contribute strategically to product evolution. The role demands a strong understanding of user needs and the ability to translate them into effective design solutions.

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
• Experience: 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 high-profile digital products, 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 multiple products. 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

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