Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum of 5+ years of professional UI design experience., Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in complex digital products., Deep knowledge of design systems and component-based design principles., Proficiency with modern design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD..

Key responsibilities:

Lead the visual and interactive design of key features for a digital product.

Contribute to and evolve the existing design system, ensuring consistency and scalability.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into user-centric interfaces.

Create prototypes and documentation to support design implementation and testing.

Job description

At AKQA, we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products, and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

We are seeking a highly experienced and passionate Freelance Senior UI Designer to join our team, focusing on an exciting new client partnership that represents a major milestone for AKQA. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of a flagship digital product, leveraging your deep expertise in UI design, with a particular focus on designing, maintaining, and evolving complex design systems at scale.

This role is a critical addition to our team, starting ASAP through the end of September, 2025. While remote work is fully supported, the ability to collaborate effectively within Eastern Time (ET) hours is essential.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

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.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

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.

Contract Details:

Duration: ASAP through end of September, 2025.
Working Hours: Must be able to work effectively within Eastern Time (ET) hours.
Location: Remote.
Weekly Rate: $2,400 - $3,000, depending on experience.

AKQA is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Explore our extensive range of benefits here.

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.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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