UX Designer

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At AKQA, we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

Creatives at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight to create and bring to life beautiful ideas that move the world. Skilled storytellers and conceptors, they work in a multidisciplinary environment to develop labors of love that delight customers and deliver results for clients. Designers play essential roles in the execution of beautiful ideas, products and services. They bring exceptional creative thought and craft output, developing and delivering from brief to end user.

AKQA UX Designers are inspired by technology and have a passion for using the latest technology to create beautiful innovative designs.

Based in the center of midtown, our Atlanta studio is as vibrant as its location. With a core focus on digital products and services, we are visionaries and makers, combining strategy, creative and technology to deliver best-in-class customer experiences for our clients.

Our culture celebrates diversity, hard work and fun. We are passionate about our craft, working together to create a better future, and ensuring we have an unfair share of the best talent in Atlanta.

Recognized for outstanding work by Cannes, Apple and the Clio Awards, we deliver on our client’s most challenging briefs. This includes the future of retail, global entertainment launches and piloting digital products and services that reshape customer experiences.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

A solid understanding and demonstration of user-centered design principles
The ability to lead the design of large and complex systems of interactions
Able to utilize state-of-the-art techniques and contribute to thought leadership activities
Work with team members to develop streamlined UX processes
Proactively pursues opportunities to improve the strategy to better address client and user objectives
Continually innovates and improves on the agency processes and deliverables to set new standards
Demonstrates the ability to lead a team of user experience designers working on multiple projects and assumes responsibility for all documentation produced by the User Experience team
Capable of defining consumers, processes, and ideas from an objective point of view based on research and insight, and can effectively communicate this point of view with senior management on both the agency and client sides

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

You have a compelling portfolio of distinctive work showing both product and service design as well as storytelling
Able to develop simple and elegant design solutions to complex design problems
You have exceptional written and oral communication skills
You have expertise in cross-functional collaboration
Assists and guides other User Experience Designers in their professional development, fostering innovation in the User Experience team
Foster progressive and limitless thinking

AKQA is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.