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Design Lead, Design Systems - Freelance

Akqa 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

$36,000 - $40,000 Contract Lead

Lead and mentor designers while providing hands-on creative direction for a flagship digital product experience. Guide the creation and evolution of scalable design systems, align creative work with client and user needs, and collaborate with UX, strategy, and development teams to deliver and present high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor designers while providing hands-on creative direction for a flagship digital product experience. Guide the creation and evolution of scalable design systems, align creative work with client and user needs, and collaborate with UX, strategy, and development teams to deliver and present high-quality solutions.

Requirements

  • Requires 6+ years of experience in UI design, art direction, or a related field, with a strong portfolio and demonstrated team leadership and mentoring ability. Candidates should have deep design systems expertise, advanced Figma skills, knowledge of responsive and mobile design, strong client communication, and experience collaborating across disciplines.

Key Skills

Design systems UI design Art direction Figma (advanced) Responsive design Mobile design Client communication Team leadership Mentoring Cross‑functional collaboration UX research Design thinking Agile methodology Prototyping Wireframing Adobe Creative Cloud Presentation skills Creative problem solving Stakeholder management Design critique

About Akqa

AKQA is the frontier agency, uniting imagination, design, craft and technology to create new forms of value. For more than three decades, we've helped brands imagine what’s next and make what matters, from pioneering digital to defining the next era of AI. Operating across 19 countries and 30 locations, we work with organisations to build intelligent systems, digital products, connected ecosystems and immersive experiences that shape culture, deepen brand relevance and unlock growth. AKQA is a WPP agency.

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