User Experience Designer Senior - Remote

Would you enjoy making a difference to our customers' experience?

Are you excited to promote user-centered design across our culture?

Join our User Experience Team!

Akamai is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to apply user-centered design activities across Akamai. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of shipping great products that users love and that drive business outcomes. At Akamai, great design can transform businesses.

Shape the Future of UX Design

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will play a significant role in leading the design for major products and features. Working closely with product owners, you'll lead design efforts from concept through launch.

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

• Working closely with cross-functional teams to create excellent experiences that balance business, user, and technology requirements
• Creating scenarios, use cases, workflows, and mockups to effectively collaborate and communicate ideas
• Working on a variety of projects from major initiatives as well as short-term work
• Transforming broad, conceptual ideas into valuable products by creating elegant solutions for complex problems
• Integrating qualitative and quantitative data from analytics and user research to solve user's problems.
• Designing within an existing design system framework while applying accessibility and inclusion principles.

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
• Be an expert in UX/UI design skills and best practices
• Demonstrate the ability to break down complex problems into elegant, intuitive, and cohesive user experiences
• Be a problem solver, quick study, self-starter, and excellent communicator with a passion
• Have experience designing for B2B SaaS products and Enterprise software
• Have experience creating interactive prototypes in figma

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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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

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.

Working for you

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:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

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

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 we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $91,600 - $190,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.