Senior User Experience Designer Job at AKQA (New York)

Senior User Experience Designer

AKQA

Location:
United States , New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

Not provided

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Job Description:

At AKQA, 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 execution of beautiful ideas, products and services. They bring exceptional creative thought and craft output, developing and delivering from brief to end user. AKQA Senior User Experience Designers are inspired by technology and have a passion for using the latest technology to create beautiful innovative designs. They undertake all responsibilities with a heightened level of skill and autonomy.

Requirements:

A solid understanding and demonstration of user-centered design principles
The ability to lead the design of large and complex systems of interactions
Possess extensive experience in the creation, maintenance, and application of white-label design systems
Able to utilize state-of-the-art techniques and contribute to thought leadership activities
Work with team members to develop streamlined UX processes
Proactively pursues opportunities to improve the strategy to better address client and user objectives
Continually innovates and improves on the agency processes and deliverables to set new standards
Demonstrate advanced proficiency in leveraging AI tools to drive innovation and efficiency in all stages of the UX lifecycle
Develop and deliver high-fidelity prototypes and interactive experiences, primarily utilizing Figma
Demonstrates the ability to lead a team of user experience designers working on multiple projects and assumes responsibility for all documentation produced by the User Experience team
Capable of defining consumers, processes, and ideas from an objective point of view based on research and insight, and can effectively communicate this point of view with senior management on both the agency and client sides

Nice to have:

You have a compelling portfolio of distinctive work showing both product and service design as well as storytelling
Able to develop simple and elegant design solutions to complex design problems
You have exceptional written and oral communication skills
You have expertise in cross-functional collaboration
Expert-level Figma skills and strong proficiency with leading industry-standard UX design and prototyping tools
Assists and guides other User Experience Designers in their professional development, fostering innovation in the User Experience team
Foster progressive and limitless thinking

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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