Senior User Experience Designer

Are you a UX designer driven by curiosity and craft?

Do you love designing next-gen enterprise product experiences?

Join the Akamai STG UX team!

Akamai's Security Technology Group (STG) builds the platforms that protect a meaningful share of the internet. We're looking for a Senior UX Designer to lead end-to-end design efforts from concept to launch. You'll take genuinely complex enterprise problems and turn them into interfaces that feel obvious, considered, and good to use.

If you care about the pixel and the system, if you get energy from B2B products where the stakes and the complexity are real, and if you want your design system contributions to be used by dozens of engineers every day, this role is for you.

• Be a strategic partner who represents the user and ensures their needs and feedback drive every design decision.
• Make complex systems simple, clear, and navigable.
• Design intuitive, visually polished interfaces that raise the bar for the whole product, from typography, layout, and hierarchy down to states, motion, and micro-interactions.
• Own the interaction model for the flows you design: how things respond, transition, recover from error, and behave under load and at scale.
• Maintain and evolve our design system, including auditing components, defining patterns and usage guidance, contributing new components, and partnering with engineering to keep design and code in sync.
• Drive adoption of the design system across teams: reviewing designs against it, resolving pattern conflicts, and knowing when a one-off should become a shared component.
• Contribute to our team's shared knowledge of design and system best practices.

• 5+ years of UX design experience, with work examples or a portfolio demonstrating design for complex products.
• Substantial experience designing B2B / enterprise software, with a real understanding of how business users, admins, and technical personas actually work: multi-user workflows, permissions and roles, dense data, long-lived tasks, and buyers who aren't the end users.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills : A portfolio that shows genuine craft in typography, layout, color, and hierarchy, plus up-to-date knowledge of UI trends
• Hands-on experience maintaining design systems and component libraries in Figma, covering components, variants, tokens, documentation, versioning, and adoption, plus a solid understanding of engineering constraints.
• Fluency in English, with the ability to communicate and defend design decisions and build product and domain knowledge with technical partners.
• A keen eye for detail and the ability to connect content, terminology, and product logic across technical domains.
• (Bonus) Security or infrastructure knowledge is helpful, but not required.

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We're doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it's important that you're able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as LinkedIn Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone. We are happy to discuss flexible working options in this role, please consult with the recruiter when you apply.

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.