Senior Product Designer

Overview

In this Senior Product Designer role, you lead the strategy, design, and optimization of digital products, services, and platforms for high-profile brands. You’ll shape art direction and create scalable design systems across multiple touchpoints, collaborating with UX, Strategy, Analytics, and engineering teams. You’ll drive bold, polished visuals while anchoring them in strong UX principles, delivering high-priority projects at pace. This role sits in AKQA’s London product team, offering impact at scale and close partnership with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define art direction, visual signature, and core value propositions for digital experiences
• Design, implement, and operationalise scalable enterprise design systems across platforms and brands
• Propose innovative visual concepts that raise client expectations
• Translate data-driven insights and user feedback into high-fidelity design opportunities with UX colleagues
• Deliver elite UI/visual design with strong typography and micro-interactions grounded in UX
• Collaborate with development teams to realize complex products and design systems from design to deployment
• Pitch and rationalise ideas, sketches, and prototypes to peers, owners, and senior stakeholders
• Maintain a unified product vision with Experience Designers, Product Strategists, and Engineers
• Own the setup, operationalisation, and scaling of enterprise design systems

Key requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a similar role, preferably in a fast-paced creative agency or digital product studio
• Exemplary visual craft with a keen eye for detail
• Deep knowledge of building and managing enterprise-scale design systems
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring juniors
• Fearless, highly creative approach with meticulous attention to craft and polish

• leadership
• mentoring
• collaboration
• design systems
• UI and visual design
• typography

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