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 Designer with a strong emphasis on UI to support one of the most widely recognized names in connectivity and technology, a brand that is woven into the daily lives of millions of people across the country. This is an opportunity to contribute to digital product experiences that reach an enormous audience, working within a collaborative and fast-moving team environment. This is a hybrid freelance role from June 22 through December 23, 2026.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• 4 to 6 years of experience, with an agency setting preferred
• Bring a strong UI sensibility and visual design craft to digital product work, with complementary UX capabilities that inform and elevate your output
• Implement a combination of strategic, conceptual, and design skills across a variety of deliverable types
• Create and manage original, visually compelling work that is both on-brand and purposeful
• Skilled in establishing and maintaining visual design systems, with experience creating and deploying tokenized components for scalable design
• Adept at utilizing AI tools to inform and streamline the design process, from research to prototyping
• Collaborate effectively with clients and various teams within AKQA, contributing to a culture of openness and continuous improvement

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• A compelling portfolio of work with clear evidence of strong UI craft across digital products and services
• A drive to break boundaries and craft the best ideas of their kind
• Fearlessly and boundlessly creative, relentlessly attentive to detail
• Excellent knowledge of Figma, including working with design systems, setting up variables and libraries
• Strong proficiency with leading industry-standard UX design and prototyping tools
• Motion design skills are a welcome complement to your UI capabilities

Location & Commitment

• Hybrid; one day per week in our Soho office, must be commutable to NYC
• June 22, 2026 through December 23, 2026
• 40 hours/week
• Expected compensation: $2,000to$2,560 per week