Jobs · Art & Creative · California

Senior Designer

AKQA · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
HybridArt & CreativeFull-time

Role Requirements

  • Deliver high-quality UI and visual design across digital product surfaces, with a strong grounding in user-centered design principles and a meticulous eye for craft.
  • Contribute to, maintain, and evolve a sophisticated design system, working confidently across components, tokens, patterns, variants, and states with a focus on scalability and consistency.
  • Translate UX direction and wireframes into polished, pixel-precise designs that are both on-brand and highly usable.
  • Develop and deliver high-fidelity prototypes and interactive experiences primarily utilizing Figma.
  • Work both strategically and tactically, weighing tradeoffs and exploring multiple solution concepts across a complex ecosystem of digital products and services.
  • Collaborate closely with UX designers, product managers, strategists, and engineers to ensure design decisions are well-integrated and grounded in user needs.
  • Adept at utilizing AI tools to inform and streamline the design process, from research to prototyping.
  • 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 design 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.
  • Able to develop simple and elegant design solutions to complex design problems.
  • Comfortable working within a large, complex consumer brand with established visual and design guidelines, and skilled at designing compellingly within those guardrails.
  • 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.

About the Role

This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong design craft and systems thinking directly shape the experience of a massive, diverse audience. You will bring deep expertise in digital products and services as well as design systems, and you will work within a collaborative, fast-moving team environment.

Location & Commitment

  • West Coast based;
  • Must be available during Pacific Time working hours;
  • Monthly travel to client headquarters for collaborative working sessions of a few days at a time;
  • July 2, 2026 through September 30, 2026;
  • 40 hours/week;
  • Expected weekly compensation: $2,600 to $3,400.

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