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# Senior Product Designer at AKQA

- **Company:** AKQA
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://www.akqa.com/jobs/8099125/?gh_jid=8099125

## Job description

At AKQA (part of WPP), 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 and meaningful impact for our clients.

Our Product Designers play essential roles in the strategy, design, and optimisation of beautiful ideas, products, and services. They bring intelligent thought and craft, developing and delivering projects from brief to end user.

As a Senior Product Designer in our integrated London product team, you will have the opportunity to take the lead on creating impact through imagining and informing the design of products, services, and platforms for globally renowned companies. This work not only incorporates establishing a new look and feel, but also grows across multiple brands and touchpoints to impact millions of users.

For this particular role, you must possess exceptional visual design craft skills balanced with a strong, fluent understanding of UX and digital product logic. You will lead multidisciplinary teams in regard to approach, deliverables, and the future development of the design system. You will sit in front of senior stakeholders and be trusted to deliver high-priority projects that create meaningful value at a rapid pace.

## ROLE REQUIREMENTS

- Comfortably take the initiative on defining the art direction, visual signature, and core value propositions of the digital experiences we build.
- Take a leading role in designing, implementing, and operationalising comprehensive, scalable design systems that serve multiple platforms and brand touchpoints.
- Actively push the boundaries of incoming briefs, championing innovative thinking to propose bold, highly polished visual concepts that elevate client expectations.
- Work closely with UX, Strategy, and Analytics teams to seamlessly translate data-driven insights and user feedback into beautiful, high-fidelity design opportunities.
- Provide elite execution in UI and visual design (including layout, typography, and micro-interactions) while maintaining a strong, intuitive grounding in UX design principles.
- Collaborate confidently and seamlessly with development teams to bring complex digital products and design systems to life, ensuring the ultimate quality of output from design to deployment.
- Confidently pitch, present, and rationalise original ideas, sketches, and prototypes to peers, business owners, and senior client stakeholders.
- Collaborate confidently with Experience Designers, Product Strategists, and Engineers to maintain a unified product vision.
- Own the setup, operationalisation, and scaling of enterprise design systems

## QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

- 5+ Years of Experience: Proven experience in a similar role, ideally within a fast-paced creative agency or digital product studio.
- Exemplary Visual Craft: A relentless eye for detail, with a deep passion for refining and iterating digital experiences until they are flawless.
- Deep Design System Knowledge: Excessive, practical knowledge of building and managing enterprise-scale design systems.
- Leader & Mentor: Proven experience guiding product development alongside large, multidisciplinary teams, with a natural drive to support and mentor junior talent.
- Fearless & Relentless: You are fearless, boundlessly creative, and relentlessly attentive to the craft and polish of digital products.

Explore our extensive range of benefits [here.](https://www.akqa.com/studios/london/benefits/) We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

## About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit [WPP.com](http://wpp.com/).

## About AKQA

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AKQA is a creative agency that combines imagination and technology to design and build transformative products, services, and experiences for the world’s most respected brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private subsidiary (owned by WPP plc)
- **Headquarters**: Not explicitly stated on company site; widely reported as London, UK (global presence across 19 countries and 30 locations)
- **Founded**: 1995
- **Founders**: Not publicly available on company site

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Creative agency, digital agency, innovation consultancy, experience design
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise clients (global organisations and institutions)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Create a better future” – the company states its primary motivation is to imagine and create what matters next, using imagination, technology, craft and speed to make a positive difference in people’s lives.

## Products & Services
AKQA operates through several specialised companies and practices:
- **Experience Design**: Designing digital products, services, and interfaces that are intuitive, beautiful, and culturally resonant.
- **Brand, Industrial Design and Architecture**: Creating brand identities, physical products, and spatial experiences.
- **App Development (ArcTouch)**: Building mobile and connected applications for clients.
- **Brand Experience and Communications (Made)**: Developing brand storytelling, campaigns, and communications strategies.

In addition, AKQA offers consulting, engineering, and innovation services as part of its core agency offering.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private subsidiary of WPP plc, a public company with a market cap of ~£9B as of mid-2025)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not applicable (subsidiary); revenue not publicly disclosed for AKQA standalone. WPP’s Global Integrated Agencies segment (which includes AKQA) reported £12.3B in revenue for 2024.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company WPP plc; long-term clients include many of the world’s most prestigious organisations (specific names not listed on site).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 83 Agency of the Year awards
  - 616 Cannes Lions won in the last decade, including multiple Grand Prix awards (Innovation 2025, Glass 2024, Digital Craft 2023, Design 2021)
  - Ranked 9th Most Loved Workplace in the World by Newsweek
  - Named Campaign’s 2023 Digital Agency Global Network of the Year
  - Winner of Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards (2021, 2022, 2024)
  - Led Gartner’s independent evaluation of Global Marketing Agencies for four consecutive years

## Competitive Advantages
- **Award-winning creative culture**: Consistently recognised at the highest levels of global creative competitions (Cannes Lions, D&AD, Webby Awards).
- **Global scale with local depth**: 30 studios across 19 countries, enabling seamless cross-border collaboration – over 70% of clients work with teams in multiple regions.
- **Long-term client relationships**: Trusted by many of the world’s most respected organisations, with a focus on enduring partnerships rather than project-based work.
- **Multidisciplinary expertise**: Combines strategy, design, engineering, and communications under one roof, allowing for integrated, end-to-end solutions.
- **Culture of innovation**: Emphasis on disciplined experimentation and “zero-to-one” breakthroughs rather than incremental change.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuing to lead at the intersection of imagination and technology**, with a strong focus on AI, digital craft, and emerging technologies.
- **Becoming the employer of choice** in the creative and innovation industry, as stated on the company’s careers page.
- **Driving growth for society, clients, people, and values** – the company describes itself as “ambitious, growth-oriented” with a commitment to sustainability and equity.
- **Expanding its global footprint** and deepening capabilities through its specialised companies (ArcTouch, Made, etc.).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Recognised as a Great Place to Work and a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company. Newsweek ranked AKQA the 9th Most Loved Workplace in the World.
- **Employee Resource Groups**: Active communities including WE (Women’s Empowerment), BOLD (LGBTQIA+), MIND (mental health), API (Asian & Pacific Islander), and a DEI Council.
- **Learning and development**: AKQA Insight platform offers talks and courses from internal and external experts; formal training programs and WPP Professional Development are available.
- **Mental health and physical wellbeing**: Resources include yoga, meditation, self-care resources, and a focus on disease prevention and resilience.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated on site; the company has physical studios worldwide and emphasises in-person collaboration, though some flexibility may exist depending on role and location.
- **Purpose-driven work**: The company’s stated goal is to “create a better future,” and it backs this with sustainability initiatives and community engagement (e.g., Future Lions competition, Future Academy internship program).
- **Diverse and inclusive environment**: The company is committed to “fostering a varied and equitable work environment” and takes active steps toward equity and representation.

## Sources
1. [AKQA Careers Overview](https://www.akqa.com/careers/)
2. [Working at AKQA](https://www.akqa.com/careers/working-at-akqa/)
3. [AKQA Companies](https://www.akqa.com/companies/)
4. [AKQA Culture](https://www.akqa.com/culture/)

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