Freelance Senior Product Designer

<p>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.</p> <p>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. Senior Product Designers play essential roles in the execution of beautiful ideas, products and services. They bring exceptional creative thought and craft output across both interaction and visual design, developing and delivering from brief to end user, and are driven to use technology in service of genuinely better human experiences.</p> <p>We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Product Designer to support one of the most recognized and relied-upon brands in the world, a global leader in digital payments whose products and services touch the lives of billions of people every day. This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where the ability to move fluidly between UX thinking and UI craft is essential. You are equally at home defining interaction flows and shaping the visual language that brings them to life, and you understand how those two disciplines strengthen each other at every stage of the design process. This is a remote freelance role starting as soon as possible and running through July 23, 2026.</p> <p> </p> <p>ROLE REQUIREMENTS</p> <ul> <li>Bring balanced UX and UI capabilities to the work, moving fluidly between interaction design, information architecture, and high-craft visual execution across complex digital product ecosystems</li> <li>Lead the design of large and complex systems of interactions, bringing clarity and coherence to multi-step, multi-lane experiences</li> <li>Contribute meaningfully to design systems from both a UX and UI perspective, including components, patterns, tokens, and interaction states</li> <li>Develop and deliver high-fidelity wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes primarily utilizing Figma, with expert-level command of components, variants, auto layout, libraries, and prototyping capabilities</li> <li>Demonstrate advanced proficiency in leveraging AI tools to drive innovation and efficiency across all stages of the product design lifecycle</li> <li>Work with team members to develop and refine streamlined design processes, setting new standards for quality and delivery</li> <li>Proactively pursue opportunities to improve strategy and approach in order to better address client and user objectives</li> <li>D