Akqa
Senior Product Designer
Overview
We are growing our product design team, and we are looking for a Senior Product Designer of exceptional craft and product judgement — someone who designs products that are beautiful, useful and meaningful, and who is fluent in leveraging modern, AI-augmented workflows to accelerate how those products are built.
About Akqa
The creative minds at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight, creating beautiful ideas, products and services that move the world. As a design and innovation company (part of WPP), we lead change from our Swedish studios with clients including Volvo Cars, Polestar, H&M, Netflix, Nike and Minecraft.
Requirements & Eligibility
- 5+ years designing stand-out digital products from strategy to delivery, with a portfolio demonstrating real-world impact and commercial results
- World-class craft across UI and UX, with mastery of Figma, design systems, component thinking, and a sharp eye for motion and micro-interaction
- Pragmatic tool fluency — hands-on with modern design, prototyping, and AI workflows
- Strong product and commercial acumen — fluent in user value, business objectives, and metrics
- A strategic systems thinker who understands that differentiation comes from uniting rigorous execution with exceptional aesthetic taste
- Technical literacy to reason about how design becomes code and to collaborate seamlessly with engineering in agile environments
- An outstanding communicator and storyteller who earns the trust of senior clients and leads multidisciplinary collaboration
- Genuinely curious about human behavior, business context, and the ethical/trust implications of modern, AI-powered products
Key Responsibilities
- Lead product design end to end — concept, interaction, UI, usability, accessibility — to the highest standard of craft
- Set and hold the quality bar across typography, layout, motion, micro-interaction and visual systems
- Connect design decisions to product strategy and business outcomes — shaping not only how a product looks and works, but what is worth building
- Treat prototyping as a way to think, validate, and deliver — moving swiftly from concept to functional, high-fidelity prototypes
- Build and evolve scalable design systems — crafting tokens, components, and semantic structures that bridge design and engineering effectively
- Design for modern interaction paradigms — equally comfortable crafting classic, highly polished user interfaces as well as adaptive, generative, or AI-powered experiences
- Translate research, behavioral data, and category insights into confident product direction and defensible rationales
- Run workshops and co-creation sessions with clients, framing complex problems and inspiring confidence in new approaches
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