Freelance Senior Designer

AKQA • New York, NY

1d • $2,600 - $3,400 • Remote

About The Position

At AKQA (part of WPP) 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. Creatives at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight to create and bring to life beautiful ideas that move the world. Skilled storytellers and conceptors, they work in a multidisciplinary environment to develop labors of love that delight customers and deliver results for clients. Designers play essential roles in the strategy, conception, and design of beautiful ideas, products and services, bringing exceptional creative thought and craft output from brief to end user. We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Designer with a strong emphasis on UI to support one of the most recognized and trusted names in financial services, a brand with deep roots in helping people plan, protect, and secure their futures. We are doing transformative digital product work with this client, shaping the ways that millions of people engage with their financial lives. This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong visual craft and systems-level thinking have a direct impact on real people at pivotal moments.

Requirements

• A compelling portfolio of distinctive work demonstrating strong UI 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; Figma proficiency is a must
• Able to develop simple and elegant design solutions to complex design problems
• Comfortable working within complex and highly considered subject matter contexts
• 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

Responsibilities

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed