Senior Product Designer at AKQA

Job Description

• Experience/Product/UI Designers at AKQA apply digital design and motion craft to web and app, systems thinking, and scalability — 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/Product/UI Designers are endlessly curious, exceptional at their craft, obsessed with the latest design, visual and conceptual trends of app and web, and armed with a product mindset. They demonstrate passion, empathy, excellent listening skills, intelligence and are the human-centric glue that binds together UX, creative, and technology into a harmonious collaboration, working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver positive impact for brands, people and their environment.
• You will report to the Creative Director, Experience in Amsterdam, but day to day be part of the South African studio in a hybrid remote capacity. You will be working for a big automotive client, love and have a natural passion for the automotive industry.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• A minimum five years’ experience designing stand-out digital products and services from strategy to concept to delivery
• A compelling portfolio of outstanding work across different platforms that has created a real-world impact
• Demonstrated ability to lead senior business stakeholders to understand UX/UI/CX strategy and making decisions that strengthen their business
• Has defined, facilitated, and overseen design processes across different streams of work, from research and workshops to handover and user stories
• Mastery of design, prototyping and design systems in Figma.
• Knows that design is not static pursuit and master motion design in either After Effects, Jitter, or the like
• Experienced working alongside designers and developers in complex, ecosystems, in Agile processes, with a product and SCRUM mindset
• Excellent ownership of developing services, experiences, products and platforms to their full lifecycle potential.
• Understanding and executing core UI deliverables from user research to strategy to design (experienced working with user research, personas, user journeys, ecosystem maps, prototypes, service blueprints)
• Able to develop solutions for a wide variety of touchpoints, platforms and devices including mobile, web, social, physical, etc.
• Promotes collaborative work practices with teams and clients, and identifies opportunities to improve quality and increase efficiency through collaborative design
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior members of the Experience Design team and ensure the team has a high level of morale

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• You have exceptional visual, verbal and written communication skills, fluent in English with a strong command of the language
• You have an insatiable curiosity and are able to observe and identify patterns, trends and insights, bringing a strong point of view to any project you work on
• You have a compelling portfolio of unique work that spans touchpoints  
• You embrace challenges, and new ways of thinking
• You enjoy getting into the nitty-gritty of a problem and have a sharp eye for detail.
• You are a lateral and creative thinker with the ability to understand and make complex topics understandable
• You are obsessed with your field, up to date with new techniques and trends in UX/UI, tech, and business
• You’re comfortable confidently presenting your point of view or your work
• You have a “can-do” attitude and approach to collaboration and leadership, embracing challenges and inspiring new ways of thinking
• Dedicated to a single account, obsessing about their business to create the future.