AKQA

New York

Senior Designer - Prudential

ON-SITE SENIOR

Posted 2 days ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

AKQA is seeking a Freelance Senior UI Designer with a focus on design systems for a long-term engagement with a major financial services client. This remote role involves creating transformative digital products that help millions of people manage their financial lives. The position requires a blend of visual craft and systems-level thinking to deliver high-quality interactive experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver high-quality UI design across digital product surfaces using user-centered principles
Maintain and evolve sophisticated design systems including components and tokens
Develop high-fidelity prototypes and interactive experiences primarily using Figma
Translate UX direction and wireframes into polished and pixel-precise designs
Utilize AI tools to streamline the design process from research to prototyping
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design decisions are well-integrated

Requirements Snapshot

Compelling portfolio demonstrating strong UI craft and design systems experience
Expert-level Figma skills including advanced component management and libraries
Ability to develop elegant solutions for complex design problems
Experience partnering across UX product strategy and engineering teams
Excellent written and oral communication skills for professional collaboration

Expected Impact

You will shape the digital products used by millions of people to plan and secure their financial futures. By applying high-level craft and systems thinking, you will directly influence pivotal moments in users' lives while raising the bar for design quality within a high-visibility engagement.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed).
For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

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 an experienced Freelance Senior UI Designer with a strong emphasis in Design Systems to support one of the most recognized and trusted names in financial services, a brand with deep roots in helping people plan, protect, and secure their futures. We are doing transformative digital product work with this client, shaping the ways that millions of people engage with their financial lives. This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong visual craft and systems-level thinking have a direct impact on real people at pivotal moments. This is a remote freelance role starting as soon as possible and running through December 23, 2026.

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

We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

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