About the Role
AKQA is seeking a Freelance Senior Designer with a strong UI emphasis to support a leading connectivity and technology brand. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to digital product experiences reaching a vast audience within a collaborative, fast-paced team. This is a hybrid freelance position from June 22 to December 23, 2026.
Responsibilities
- Implement strategic, conceptual, and design skills across various deliverables.
- Create and manage original, visually compelling work that is on-brand and purposeful.
- Establish and maintain visual design systems, including creating and deploying tokenized components for scalable design.
- Utilize AI tools to inform and streamline the design process, from research to prototyping.
- Collaborate effectively with clients and internal AKQA teams, 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 products, with complementary UX capabilities.
- A compelling portfolio showcasing strong UI craft across digital products and services.
- Excellent knowledge of Figma, including design systems, variables, and libraries.
- Strong proficiency with leading industry-standard UX design and prototyping tools.
Skills
- UI design
- Visual design
- UX capabilities
- Strategic thinking
- Conceptualization
- Design systems
- Tokenized components
- AI tools
- Figma
- UX design tools
- Prototyping tools
- Motion design
Location
- Hybrid
- Soho, NYC
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Freelance
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $2,000 - $2,560 per 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.
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 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.
