Senior User Experience Designer

Category: Design

Description

Do you excel at turning complex technical workflows into simple, elegant product experiences? Are you energized by designing in an ever-changing, high-stakes cybersecurity environment? Join our User Experience Team!

Akamai's Application Security portfolio is trusted by the world's largest organizations to stay ahead of rapidly evolving threats. These are complex, high-scale systems, used by demanding technical personas like DevOps, AppSec engineers, and Security Admins.

Shape the Future of UX Design

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will thrive on challenges, quickly make sense of complexity, and advocate for high-quality design under fast-moving conditions.

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

• Designing complex workflows with clarity: Deliver polished, intuitive UI flows that reduce friction for advanced enterprise users.
• Working closely with Product and Engineering partners to ship effective solutions in a busy release cycle.
• Identifying gaps, proposing patterns, and strengthening consistency across multiple security products.
• Championing design practices, coaching peers, and making the case for design decisions to stakeholders.
• Ensuring designs are both pragmatic for engineering delivery and thoughtful in interaction and visual execution.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5-8 years of relevant experience in UX/UI design or a related field.
• Have interaction and visual design skills, able to unify complex workflows into clear, modern interfaces.
• Demonstrate proficiency with Figma, design systems, and reusable components.
• Have the ability to analyze workflows, spot gaps, then design scalable solutions that integrate with broader systems.
• Demonstrate storytelling and communication skills, with confidence presenting to technical and executive audiences.
• Be detail-oriented, with a knack for connecting logic, states, and edge cases into cohesive designs.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on principles that help us create the best workplace in the world. This permanent workplace flexibility program gives 95% of employees the choice to work from home, the office, or both (in the country advertised). We encourage you to speak with your recruiter about working options for this role.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences, helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge, we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications while keeping experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Benefits

At Akamai, we provide opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future, covering health, finances, family, time at work, and time pursuing other endeavors.

How to Apply

Join us if you are seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients. Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.