Senior User Experience Designer

Role Summary

Are you a UX designer driven by curiosity and craft?

Responsibilities

• 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.

Partner with the best

Design and optimize user experiences by creating intuitive, accessible, and engaging interfaces that align with business goals and user needs.

As an User Experience Designer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Representing users by ensuring their needs and feedback guide and influence each design decision as a strategic partner.
• Simplifying intricate systems to ensure clarity and ease of navigation.
• Designing intuitive, visually refined interfaces that enhance the entire product, from typography, layout, and structure to states, motion, and micro-interactions.
• Owning interaction models for designed flows: ensuring responses, transitions, error recovery, and behavior under load and scale function seamlessly.
• Evolving the design system by auditing components, defining patterns, contributing new elements, and collaborating with engineering for synchronization.
• Encouraging design system adoption across teams by reviewing designs, addressing pattern conflicts, and identifying shared component opportunities for one-offs.
• Enhancing our team's collective understanding of design principles and system best practices through active participation and collaboration.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will

• Demonstrate expertise designing enterprise software, understanding business users, admins, technical workflows, permissions, roles, dense data, and long-lived tasks.
• Demonstrate exceptional visual design skills with a portfolio showcasing expertise in typography, layout, color, and current UI trends.
• Maintain design systems and component libraries in Figma, including components, variants, tokens, documentation, versioning, adoption, with understanding of engineering constraints.
• Demonstrate expertise in interaction design by crafting behaviors, including states, feedback, transitions, edge cases, and empty/error/loading conditions.
• Demonstrate attention to detail and the ability to link content, terminology, and product alignment across technical domains.

Build your career at Akamai

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.

Learn more

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.

About the Company

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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:

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

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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