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Senior User Experience Designer

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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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 experiences that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients. Experience Designers at AKQA apply empathy, systems thinking, and craftsmanship to strategic insights - designing groundbreaking solutions to human problems. Adept storytellers and fearless innovators, they create interactive experiences, products and services that move the world. Our Senior Experience Designers are endlessly curious and obsessed with consumer behaviour and psychology but armed with a product mindset. They demonstrate passion, empathy, excellent listening skills, intelligence and are the human-centric glue that binds together business strategy, creative, and technology into a harmonious collaboration, working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver positive impact for brands, people and their environment.

Job Responsibility

  • Brief interpretation - able to interpret a brief, identify knowledge gaps and validate the objectives and KPIs
  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
  • Research – plan, set up, and run user testing and research, then report back insights and recommendations
  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
  • Software and tools – confident knowing the right tools to use for each job, and how to use them
  • Client – help create and deliver impactful client presentations
  • Management - provide informal support, guidance and mentoring to junior members of the User Experience team

Requirements

  • Experience leading UX from the start to the end of a project
  • Experience defining design systems and solving for multiple platforms
  • Experience using UCD and service design processes and techniques
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach to work
  • Confident explaining designs and solutions to the wider team
  • A natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
  • Able to think strategically, creatively and conceptually
  • An eye for detail and strong design skills
  • Understanding of good usability and accessibility practices
  • Able to deliver work to the highest possible standards at all times - on time and within budget
  • Able to clearly and articulately communicate ideas
  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment – demonstrating flexibility, adaptability and leadership skills
  • Be responsible for your ongoing learning, research and self-improvement
  • Great understanding of different digital platforms, technologies and content management systems
  • Expert in industry standard design tools including Figma and other prototyping tools
  • Confident in using AI to improve and accelerate the design process
  • Experience in a related field, such as Interaction Design, Product Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design etc. is preferred
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  • Brief interpretation - able to interpret a brief, identify knowledge gaps and validate the objectives and KPIs
  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
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  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
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  • Experience leading UX from the start to the end of a project
  • Experience defining design systems and solving for multiple platforms
  • Experience using UCD and service design processes and techniques
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach to work
  • Confident explaining designs and solutions to the wider team
  • A natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
  • Able to think strategically, creatively and conceptually
  • An eye for detail and strong design skills
  • Understanding of good usability and accessibility practices
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Job Responsibility
  • Brief interpretation - able to interpret a brief, identify knowledge gaps and validate the objectives and KPIs
  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
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  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
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United Kingdom , London
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Expiration Date
Until further notice
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  • Experience using UCD and service design processes and techniques
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach to work
  • Confident explaining designs and solutions to the wider team
  • A natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
  • Able to think strategically, creatively and conceptually
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  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
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  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
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  • Experience leading UX from the start to the end of a project
  • Experience defining design systems and solving for multiple platforms
  • Experience using UCD and service design processes and techniques
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach to work
  • Confident explaining designs and solutions to the wider team
  • A natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
  • Able to think strategically, creatively and conceptually
  • An eye for detail and strong design skills
  • Understanding of good usability and accessibility practices
  • Able to deliver work to the highest possible standards at all times - on time and within budget
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  • Brief interpretation - able to interpret a brief, identify knowledge gaps and validate the objectives and KPIs
  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
  • Research – plan, set up, and run user testing and research, then report back insights and recommendations
  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
  • Software and tools – confident knowing the right tools to use for each job, and how to use them
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  • Experience leading UX from the start to the end of a project
  • Experience defining design systems and solving for multiple platforms
  • Experience using UCD and service design processes and techniques
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach to work
  • Confident explaining designs and solutions to the wider team
  • A natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
  • Able to think strategically, creatively and conceptually
  • An eye for detail and strong design skills
  • Understanding of good usability and accessibility practices
  • Able to deliver work to the highest possible standards at all times - on time and within budget
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  • Brief interpretation - able to interpret a brief, identify knowledge gaps and validate the objectives and KPIs
  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
  • Research – plan, set up, and run user testing and research, then report back insights and recommendations
  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
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Senior User Experience Designer

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and scie...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , London
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
akqa.com Logo
AKQA
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Experience leading UX from the start to the end of a project
  • Experience defining design systems and solving for multiple platforms
  • Experience using UCD and service design processes and techniques
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach to work
  • Confident explaining designs and solutions to the wider team
  • A natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
  • Able to think strategically, creatively and conceptually
  • An eye for detail and strong design skills
  • Understanding of good usability and accessibility practices
  • Able to deliver work to the highest possible standards at all times - on time and within budget
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Brief interpretation - able to interpret a brief, identify knowledge gaps and validate the objectives and KPIs
  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
  • Research – plan, set up, and run user testing and research, then report back insights and recommendations
  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
  • Software and tools – confident knowing the right tools to use for each job, and how to use them
  • Client – help create and deliver impactful client presentations
  • Management - provide informal support, guidance and mentoring to junior members of the User Experience team
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  • Experience defining design systems and solving for multiple platforms
  • Experience using UCD and service design processes and techniques
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach to work
  • Confident explaining designs and solutions to the wider team
  • A natural problem solver – asking the right questions to get to the answer
  • Able to think strategically, creatively and conceptually
  • An eye for detail and strong design skills
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  • Planning – help define and scope the correct tasks and deliverables for a project. Contribute to the overall account strategy and relationship
  • Process – understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
  • Understanding – know how to interpret the insights gained from existing and new research, and know how to apply these to a project
  • Research – plan, set up, and run user testing and research, then report back insights and recommendations
  • Design – craft clear presentations and UX deliverables that ultimately help create award-winning experiences
  • Software and tools – confident knowing the right tools to use for each job, and how to use them
  • Client – help create and deliver impactful client presentations
  • Management - provide informal support, guidance and mentoring to junior members of the User Experience team
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