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Lead Experience Designer

Australia, Melbourne · Job Posted March 20, 2026
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At AKQA (part of WPP), our Experience Design discipline sets the standard for innovation, creativity, and craft. As a Lead Experience Designer, you’ll imagine what’s next and help make what matters. You will lead innovative work for ambitious brands, creating pioneering digital experiences that feel intuitive, engaging, and emotionally resonant for audiences around the world. In this role, you will conceive and deliver digital experiences that combine imagination, cultural intelligence, and technology to create meaningful products and services. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team of strategists, visual designers, UX architects, and researchers, you will shape online platforms, design systems, mobile applications, and emerging digital experiences. You will lead by example, mentoring designers, inspiring clients, and delivering visionary work. As part of AKQA, you’ll work in an innovative and inclusive culture, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow within a creative and technically advanced team, with access to ongoing personal and professional development. Our hybrid in-studio/WFH model supports balance and flexibility, and we’re committed to your career growth as well as your work/life balance.

Job Responsibility

  • Conceive and deliver digital experiences that combine imagination, cultural intelligence, and technology to create meaningful products and services
  • Shape online platforms, design systems, mobile applications, and emerging digital experiences
  • Lead by example, mentoring designers, inspiring clients, and delivering visionary work

Requirements

  • Lead and guide a team of Experience Designers to deliver impactful and engaging digital experiences
  • Maintain a high standard of design craft, ensuring quality and attention to detail across all work
  • Translate brand strategy and user insight into clear, effective design solutions across digital platforms
  • Develop and evolve design systems, component libraries, and guidelines that support scalable experiences
  • Collaborate closely with strategists, technologists, and delivery teams to ensure ideas are practical, effective, and well executed
  • Provide mentorship and constructive feedback to support the growth and development of design talent
  • Present design thinking clearly and confidently to clients and internal stakeholders
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality experience design across digital products and platforms
  • Solid product design experience, from UX architecture through to refined visual interface design
  • Experience leading designers and contributing to the delivery of complex digital projects
  • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders
  • Excellent visual design sensibility across layout, hierarchy, colour, motion, and typography
  • Proficiency in modern design tools such as Figma and other collaborative design platforms
  • Experience working within agile, cross-functional teams in agency or product environments
  • A genuine passion for design culture, creativity, and continuous innovation

What we offer

  • Work in an innovative and inclusive culture
  • Opportunity to learn and grow within a creative and technically advanced team
  • Access to ongoing personal and professional development
  • Hybrid in-studio/WFH model supports balance and flexibility
  • Commitment to your career growth as well as your work/life balance
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