Freelance Senior Designer
AKQA · Atlanta, GA · 2 wk ago
HybridArt & CreativeTemporary
Role Requirements
- Deliver high-quality UI design across complex digital product experiences, with a strong command of UX principles informing every visual and interaction decision
- Contribute to and help evolve sophisticated design systems, working across components, tokens, patterns, and states with a focus on scalability and consistency
- Work fluidly across multiple product lanes within a complex ecosystem of interactions, balancing strategic thinking with precise, detail-oriented execution
- Translate UX flows and wireframes into polished, pixel-precise visual designs that are both on-brand and highly usable
- Present work confidently and clearly to client stakeholders, articulating design rationale and advocating for the best solution
- Develop and deliver high-fidelity prototypes and interactive experiences primarily utilizing Figma
- 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 within complex digital products, with clear evidence of systems thinking and UX sensibility
- Expert-level Figma skills, including advanced component management, variables, libraries, and design system architecture
- Confident and articulate in client-facing settings; comfortable owning the presentation of your work and responding to feedback in the room
- Able to develop simple and elegant design solutions to complex design problems
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering across UX, product, strategy, and engineering
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Fosters progressive and limitless thinking
Location & Commitment
Remote; must be based in US and work Eastern hours; some travel to the client office from time to time
Duration: ASAP - December, 23rd
Expected weekly compensation: $2,600 to $3,000