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Senior Designer

Akqa

Atlanta, GA
Full Time
Senior
10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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 Senior Designer to join our team, focusing on one of AKQA's most valued and enduring client partnerships. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to a wide range of impactful and innovative digital products for a globally recognized brand. You'll work alongside a team celebrated for its culture of collaboration and creativity, producing effective, user-centered solutions that drive measurable results.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead UI Design: Drive the visual and interactive design of key features and components for high-profile digital products, 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 multiple products. 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.

Requirements

  • 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. Understanding of component-based design, tokenization, and 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.
  • Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of relevant professional experience in UI design, with a significant portion dedicated to design systems.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working within a collaborative, creative team environment.
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards and best practices.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining design systems at scale.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5+ years of relevant professional experience in UI design.

Benefits & Perks

  • Extensive range of benefits (details available via provided link).
  • Hybrid work approach including required in-office days.
  • Support for accommodations or flexibility during the hiring process.

Working at Akqa

AKQA fosters a culture of respect, creativity, collaboration, and connection. We believe that diversity is vital to providing the best recommendations to clients and are committed to a varied and inclusive work environment. We promote a culture where everyone feels they belong and has equal opportunities to progress in their careers.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 14, 2025
Job CategoryUX Design
SalaryCompetitive salary
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceSenior

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About Akqa

Website

akqa.com

Location

Atlanta, GA

Industry

Advertising Agencies

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