Senior Product Designer

<p class="p1">The creative minds at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight, creating beautiful ideas, products and services that move the world. As a design and innovation company (part of WPP), we lead change from our Swedish studios with clients including Volvo Cars, Polestar, H&M, Netflix, Nike and Minecraft. We are growing our product design team, and we are looking for a Senior Product Designer of exceptional craft and product judgement — someone who designs products that are beautiful, useful and meaningful, and who is fluent in leveraging modern, AI-augmented workflows to accelerate how those products are built.</p> <p class="p1">You will own product design end to end, from concept to delivery, for some of the world's most influential brands. You will work where the prototype is a primary medium, using modern tooling to test ideas fast and raise the quality bar. Whether designing tightly curated digital products or adaptive, AI-enabled experiences, you understand that when interface design risk becoming commoditized, the true differentiation lies in connecting exceptional strategic execution to exceptional taste — and that is the standard we hold.</p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">Role requirements:</p> <ul> <li class="p2">Lead product design end to end — concept, interaction, UI, usability, accessibility — to the highest standard of craft.</li> <li class="p2">Set and hold the quality bar across typography, layout, motion, micro-interaction and visual systems.</li> <li class="p2">Connect design decisions to product strategy and business outcomes — shaping not only how a product looks and works, but what is worth building.</li> <li class="p2">Treat prototyping as a way to think, validate, and deliver — moving swiftly from concept to functional, high-fidelity prototypes (leveraging Figma, Code Connect, and modern AI/developer workflows like Cursor, Claude, or similar where they add speed and depth).</li> <li class="p2">Build and evolve scalable design systems — crafting tokens, components, and semantic structures that bridge design and engineering effectively.</li> <li class="p2">Design for modern interaction paradigms — equally comfortable crafting classic, highly polished user interfaces as well as adaptive, generative, or AI-powered experiences.</li> <li class="p2">Translate research, behavioral data, and category insights into confident product direction and defensible rationales.</li> <li class="p2">Run workshops and co-creation sessions with clients, framing complex problems and inspiring confidence in new approaches.</li> <li class="p2">Mentor and guide other designers, raising the craft, product judgement, and modern tool fluency of the wider team.</li> </ul> <p class="p1">Qualities and Characteristics:</p> <ul> <li class="p2">5+ years (as a guide, not a restriction) designing stand-out digital products from strategy to delivery, with a portfolio demonstrating real-world impact and commercial results.</li> <li class="p2">World-class craft across UI and UX, with mastery of Figma, design systems, component thinking, and a sharp eye for motion and micro-interaction.</li> <li class="p2">Pragmatic tool fluency — hands-on with modern design, prototyping, and AI workflows, with the discernment to know where tools add value and where human craft and taste must lead.</li> <li class="p2">Strong product and commercial acumen — fluent in user value, business objectives, and the metrics that connect them.</li> <li class="p2">A strategic systems thinker who understands that differentiation comes from uniting rigorous execution with exceptiona