Freelance Senior Designer

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.

Creatives at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight to create and bring to life beautiful ideas that move the world. Skilled storytellers and conceptors, they work in a multidisciplinary environment to develop labors of love that delight customers and deliver results for clients. Designers play essential roles in the strategy, conception, and design of beautiful ideas, products and services, bringing exceptional creative thought and craft output from brief to end user.

We are seeking a Freelance Senior UI Designer to support one of the world's most recognized travel brands, a globally admired company headquartered in Atlanta whose digital products and services reach millions of customers every day. This is a high-visibility engagement that calls for a designer with deep experience in complex, UX-driven design systems and the presence and confidence to present their work directly to client stakeholders. This is a remote freelance role based in Atlanta, but can be worked anywhere in the US in approved states. 

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
• 40 hours/week
• Expected weekly compensation: $2,600 to $3,000