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About the Role

AKQA is seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Designer with a strong emphasis on UI to support a leading financial services brand. This role involves transformative digital product work, shaping how millions engage with their finances. It's a high-visibility engagement where strong visual craft and systems-level thinking directly impact users.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality UI design across digital product surfaces, grounded in user-centered design principles and a meticulous eye for craft.
• Bring strong UI sensibility and visual design expertise to digital product work, with complementary UX capabilities.
• 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 its 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.
• Utilize 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.

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.

Skills

• UI Design
• User-Centered Design
• Visual Design
• UX Capabilities
• Design Systems
• Figma
• Prototyping
• AI Tools
• Collaboration
• Communication

Location

• Remote (United States only)

Work Type

• Freelance
• Remote
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• Experienced

Salary/Compensations

• Expected weekly compensation: 2,600 to 3,400

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, or any other characteristic.
• 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.