Freelance Senior Designer
AKQA · New York, United States · 3 days ago
HybridArt & CreativeTemporary
Role Requirements
- 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
Qualities and Characteristics
- 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
Location & Commitment
Remote (United States only)
ASAP through December 23, 2026
40 hours/week
Expected weekly compensation: 2,600 to 3,400