About the Role
AKQA is seeking a Freelance Designer with a strong UI emphasis to support a prominent financial brand. This role involves contributing to digital product experiences reaching millions, within a collaborative and fast-paced remote team. The engagement is from June 15 to September 3, 2026.
Responsibilities
- Implement a combination of strategic, conceptual, and design skills across a variety of deliverable types
- Create and manage original, visually compelling work that is both on-brand and purposeful
- Establish and maintain visual design systems
- Create and deploy tokenized components for scalable design
- Utilize AI tools to inform and streamline the design process, from research to prototyping
- Collaborate effectively with clients and various teams within AKQA, contributing to a culture of openness and continuous improvement
Requirements
- 4 to 6 years of experience, with an agency setting preferred
- Strong UI sensibility and visual design craft for digital product work
- Complementary UX capabilities that inform and elevate output
- Compelling portfolio of work with clear evidence of strong UI craft across digital products and services
- Drive to break boundaries and craft the best ideas of their kind
- Fearlessly and boundlessly creative, relentlessly attentive to detail
- Excellent knowledge of Figma, including setting up and utilizing Figma libraries
- Strong proficiency with leading industry-standard UX design and prototyping tools
Skills
- UI design
- Visual design
- UX design
- Figma
- AI tools for design
- Design systems
- Tokenized components
Location
- Remote (United States only)
Work Type
- Freelance
- Remote
- Full-time (40 hours/week)
Experience Level
- 4 to 6 years
Salary/Compensations
- $2,200 to $2,600/week
About the Company
- 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.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
Equal Opportunity
- AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- 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.
