Jobs at AKQA

Freelance Data Visualization Designer responsible for transforming complex datasets into polished, compelling visual narratives. The role involves uncovering insights, designing charts and visual systems, collaborating with strategists and writers, iterating on concepts, and presenting visualization rationale directly to clients. The engagement runs through October 9, 2026, at 40 hours per week, with Atlanta preferred and occasional travel required for key meetings.

Lead the design and delivery of innovative digital products, mentor teams, collaborate with strategists, and ensure accessibility and inclusivity in all projects.

Support EMEA growth leadership by owning Salesforce data and pipeline reporting, coordinating growth meetings, producing on-brand presentation decks, maintaining a materials repository, and collating regional business review inputs. Build cross-studio relationships, improve systems and workflows, and enable business development and client relationship growth.

The Group Creative Director leads creative vision and execution for digital brand experiences, mentoring teams and collaborating with clients to deliver innovative work while driving design excellence.

Support EMEA growth by owning Salesforce pipeline data, coordinating growth meetings, producing on-brand decks and regional reports, maintaining a materials repository, and collaborating across studios to help win and develop client business.

Hands-on Senior Art Director/Content Creator who shoots, edits, and delivers social-first video content end-to-end. Own concept through production, collaborate with creative teams, attend on-site shoots and client sessions, and ensure work is on-brand and optimized for social platforms.

Lead the creative direction of digital product experiences for a global travel brand. Guide and mentor designers, evolve scalable design systems, shape platform and product vision, collaborate with UX, strategy, and development teams, and present design solutions to clients. The role requires hands-on UI design expertise, strong communication, advanced Figma proficiency, and the ability to promote creative excellence and conceptual thinking.

The Experience Strategist supports the development of CX strategies, translates insights into actionable improvements, and conducts qualitative and quantitative research.

Design digital products, services, websites, apps, and interfaces from concept through delivery. Build design systems in Figma, develop mood boards and style guides, translate brand direction into polished work, and collaborate with clients, UX, strategy, and product design teams. Present work to stakeholders, deliver projects on schedule and budget, mentor junior designers, and contribute emerging design and technology ideas.

Lead day-to-day delivery for a complex digital product engagement, coordinating internal agency teams and client stakeholders. Manage schedules, dependencies, scope, risks, resourcing, ceremonies, documentation, and stakeholder communications. Ensure alignment across strategy, UX, design, and technology workstreams while applying agile, waterfall, or hybrid methodologies. The role also supports continuous improvement of delivery practices and requires monthly travel to the client site in Seattle.

Freelance Senior Designer to deliver high‑quality UI and visual design, evolve and maintain a scalable design system, translate wireframes into pixel‑perfect designs, build high‑fidelity prototypes in Figma, collaborate with UX/product/engineering, and use AI tools to streamline design across a large consumer brand. Three‑month, full‑time engagement with regular on‑site collaboration.

Lead a small engineering team to design and deliver AI-native customer experiences. Combine hands-on frontend and AI-systems engineering to build production-ready platforms using LLMs, retrieval/RAG, vector stores, agentic workflows, streaming UX and cloud/edge infrastructure. Advise clients, run discovery and POCs, mentor developers, and establish engineering standards, CI/CD, and observability for AI-enabled products.

Lead and deliver AI-native customer experiences by designing frontend-to-orchestration architectures, prototyping LLM-driven interfaces, mentoring engineers, running POCs, advising clients on AI transformation, and operationalizing RAG, vector storage, agentic systems, and AI observability.

Manage client relationships for global brands, lead internal teams to deliver comms and digital projects, oversee budgets/timelines, ensure deliverables meet expectations, and drive strategic, innovative work while coordinating suppliers and international teams under pressure.

Develop and manage editorial strategy, campaigns, and content across channels. Translate case studies into persuasive stories, build editorial systems (plans, calendars, workflows), write and edit multimedia content, conduct interviews, ensure content aligns with audience and business goals, and maintain tone and measurement standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Project Manager responsible for planning, executing, and delivering creative marketing campaigns and technical projects, ensuring quality and effective resource management.

Lead strategic and operational client relationships, coordinate cross-discipline teams to deliver digital experiences and integrated campaigns, identify growth opportunities, ensure project delivery and client satisfaction, and present strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end delivery of a multi-stream consumer mobile app program: own roadmap and program plan, manage Design and Tech project managers, act as primary client interface, run weekly progress meetings, resolve dependencies, and produce weekly status reports to ensure strategic alignment and successful execution.

Lead the visual direction across campaigns, film, social, identity, and digital experiences. Guide multidisciplinary teams, mentor juniors, maintain high craft standards, push cultural relevance and innovation, and ensure all visual outputs meet agency quality and strategic goals.

Lead large workstreams at AKQA Sweden as a Senior Project Manager, ensuring quality delivery of innovative digital services and products for clients. Oversee mentorship, manage project teams, and establish relationships with stakeholders across various areas including production, projects, and product management.