AKQA

• Deliver full-stack feature work across a modern TypeScript and Next.js App Router codebase, including server actions, API routes, and service-layer logic • Build accessible, responsive, design-system-driven UI in React, bringing the same care and discipline to the front end as to the back end • Design and maintain clean service, domain, and persistence boundaries that support a scalable, maintainable, and auditable codebase • Work with PostgreSQL via Prisma and Supabase, or bring comparable depth with relational databases and ORMs • Implement and maintain authorization-aware data access patterns, with a strong understanding of auth, session management, and security considerations in a regulated or fintech-adjacent context • Build and maintain form-heavy transactional workflows using schema validation approaches such as React Hook Form and Zod • Integrate with CMS platforms, ideally Contentful, to support content-driven product surfaces • Write meaningful tests across unit, component, and integration layers using Vitest or equivalent tooling, with a focus on testing the flows that matter most • Work within a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and deploy to Vercel, maintaining delivery hygiene and production reliability • Bring comfort and prior experience working with regulated workflows, investor portals, admin tooling, or data integrations involving platforms such as Databricks or Azure • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners to shape solutions, not just implement them.

• Freelance Designer with a strong emphasis on UI to support one of the most recognizable financial brands in the country • Contribute to digital product experiences that reach millions of people • Work within a collaborative and fast-moving team environment

• Prepare and manage print-ready files across a range of formats, including large-format and out-of-home applications, with meticulous attention to specs, color, and production standards • Work from existing design concepts and brand guidelines to produce accurate, production-ready mechanicals across multiple deliverable types • Demonstrate fluency in out-of-home production requirements, including billboard, transit, and large-format specifications, bleed, resolution, and vendor submission standards • Manage color accurately across print workflows, including CMYK, Pantone, and spot color considerations • Coordinate with print vendors and production partners as needed, ensuring files are delivered correctly and on time • Maintain organized, clearly labeled file systems and documentation that are easy for teammates and partners to navigate • Support creative and design teams throughout the production lifecycle, from initial file setup through final delivery • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teammates including designers, art directors, and account managers in a fast-paced environment

• Lead with maker energy. Drive design, craft, and execution with pace and pride, raising the bar on every visual, system, and experience, and pushing visuals to be bolder, clearer, and more culturally relevant. • Think in systems, not assets. Build identities and design languages that scale across channels and evolve over time. Create rules and rythms, not just one-off screens. • Craft with obsession. Sweat the details: spacing, alignment, type, transitions, iconography, accessibility, responsiveness. Your work should feel authored, intentional and world-class. • Design beyond the screen. Bring the same design intelligence to environments, packaging, content ecosystems, installations and tech-enabled experiences. Understand how a brand behaves in the real world. • Make work that travels. Create a design with PR potential: iconic, ownable, culturally legible. Understand what will land locally in MENA and what will travel globally. • Own the process end-to-end. From early explorations and mood boards to design development, artworking, production files and QA, you shepherd quality through every phase. • Collaborate like a modern designer. Work fluidly with writers, strategists, creative directors, technologists, makers, AI tools and the broader AKQA network. Invite critique and use friction to sharpen outcomes. • Present with clarity and taste. Tell the design story: the rationale, the system, the choices and the craft, guiding clients through what matters and why it works. • Guard the standard. Be accountable for every deliverable. Ensure every layout, screen, prototype, deck page and asset meets AKQA's global level and reflects the studio's ambition.

• Lead day-to-day project management across a complex digital product engagement, ensuring clarity of priorities, timelines, deliverables, and accountability across all workstreams • Serve as the central point of coordination between internal AKQA teams (strategy, UX, design, technology) and client stakeholders • Manage project schedules, milestones, and dependencies with meticulous detail, proactively identifying risks and driving timely resolution • Oversee scope management and change control, partnering with discipline leads to assess impact and maintain alignment on approved work • Support resourcing coordination, ensuring the right people are engaged at the right time across the project lifecycle • Facilitate regular project ceremonies and working sessions, keeping teams aligned and focused on outcomes • Maintain clear and consistent project documentation (status reports, RAID logs, decision logs, meeting notes) that keep all stakeholders informed • Partner with the client to manage expectations, communicate progress, and navigate complexity with composure and clarity • Ensure delivery processes align with agile, waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as required by the engagement • Contribute to continuously improving delivery practices and ways of working within the project and broader team

• Lead UX thinking and direction across one or more concurrent workstreams, balancing strategic vision with hands-on delivery • Collaborate closely and fluidly with visual and product designers to ensure UX and design are tightly aligned throughout the process • Contribute to, maintain, and champion design systems—ensuring consistency, scalability, and adoption across teams • Define and communicate user journeys, flows, interaction patterns, and key design decisions with clarity and rationale • Independently deliver innovative solutions to complex problems, responsibly introducing new patterns where existing ones fall short • Distill research, data, and strategic inputs into clear UX direction that can be understood and acted on by cross-functional partners • Guide and provide feedback to more junior UX practitioners, supporting quality and growth across the team • Partner with product, strategy, and technology leads to ensure experience decisions are grounded in both user needs and business goals • Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders on both the agency and client sides, presenting work with confidence and clarity • Contribute to continuously raising the bar for UX standards, deliverables, and processes within the engagement

• Lead with hunger, not hierarchy. Drive the creation of bold ideas across campaigns, products, and experiences • Write Arabic that lives in culture. Craft original Arabic copy across Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialects • Be a hands-on craft obsessive. Write, refine, rewrite, and elevate various types of content • Bring cultural intelligence. Inject regional insights into the work • Tell stories that travel. Shape narratives that work across multiple platforms • Think beyond the ad. Collaborate with various stakeholders to shape ideas that extend beyond campaigns • Bring energy that lifts the room. Embrace challenges as fuel • Create work that earns attention. Ideas should be culturally relevant and built for conversation • Operate like a modern creative, comfortable with various tools and mediums • Collaborate fearlessly with multidisciplinary talent across the global network • Present with conviction during reviews and meetings • Contribute to the culture by inspiring others and pushing experimentation

• Lead with maker energy. Drive design, craft, and execution with pace and pride, raising the bar on every visual, system, and experience, and pushing visuals to be bolder, clearer, and more culturally relevant. • Think in systems, not assets. Build identities and design languages that scale across channels and evolve over time. Create rules and rhythms, not just one-off screens. • Craft with obsession. Sweat the details: spacing, alignment, type, transitions, iconography, accessibility, responsiveness. Your work should feel authored, intentional and world-class. • Design beyond the screen. Bring the same design intelligence to environments, packaging, content ecosystems, installations and tech-enabled experiences. Understand how a brand behaves in the real world. • Make work that travels. Create a design with PR potential: iconic, ownable, culturally legible. Understand what will land locally in MENA and what will travel globally. • Own the process end-to-end. From early explorations and mood boards to design development, artworking, production files and QA, you shepherd quality through every phase. • Collaborate like a modern designer. Work fluidly with writers, strategists, creative directors, technologists, makers, AI tools and the broader AKQA network. Invite critique and use friction to sharpen outcomes. • Present with clarity and taste. Tell the design story: the rationale, the system, the choices and the craft, guiding clients through what matters and why it works. • Guard the standard. Be accountable for every deliverable. Ensure every layout, screen, prototype, deck page and asset meets AKQA's global level and reflects the studio's ambition.

• Support a well-known automotive brand in designing digital experiences • Help balance user needs, business goals, and technical realities • Collaborate with cross-functional partners • Ideate and prototype to ensure intuitive and accessible experiences

• Lead process of identifying and clarifying product requirements for clients using interviews, workshops, and surveys across stakeholders • Collaborate with UX and Strategy leads to discern customer problems and pain points for a workflow, individual existing product, new product concept, or ecosystem or products • Create and maintain the following deliverables: • Use Cases • Business Requirements • Functional Requirements • Product Backlog • Liaison between the business, creative and technology teams to ensure a common understanding of business requirements and solutions • Catalogue background knowledge and develop subject matter expertise to share with the internal team, resolve questions the team may have that impacts the direction of the work • Work side-by-side with our creative team to refine/clarify requirements as well as provide guidance on proposed solutions • Understand how proposed solutions may impact technical implementation and highlight potential challenges early so that dependencies may be resolved • Interface with internal and external development teams to ensure product vision is carried through to the final product • Ensure the accuracy of all project deliverables against approved requirements • Help establish scope of work and prioritize high-level requirements, working with Client, Project Manager, and Technical Architect • Develop a tactical product roadmap by conducting prioritization exercises • Provide recommendations on product direction based on expertise and analysis • Outline delivery needs based on requirements, product knowledge, and approved creative concepts • Assist in writing functional specifications defining the proposed creative solution • Participate in the communication of solutions to clients and third-party partners • Generate and maintain a backlog of epics and user stories to support a development lifecycle