At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create a better future. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive ideas, services, and experiences that capture the imagination and deliver meaningful impact.

Creatives at AKQA fuse artistry and craftsmanship with strategic insight to build brands, products, campaigns, and experiences that earn attention and live in culture. They are storytellers and makers, working across disciplines to unlock new value for our clients.

As a Senior Creative Team member in MENA, you will play an essential role in the strategy, conception, and execution of ideas spanning brand, experience, product, and innovation. Together, you will combine words and visuals into one cohesive creative system, driving work that is conceptually strong, beautifully crafted, and culturally relevant.

You will operate as a unit: thinking together, making together, and pushing each other to produce work that neither discipline could achieve alone.

At AKQA, you will be surrounded by some of the brightest minds across design, technology, and creativity, with access to world-class thinking and an environment that rewards ambition, ownership, and craft.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Lead with creative hunger. Drive ideas from first spark to final execution with the energy of makers and the accountability of owners. Push for work that is braver, sharper, and built to matter.
• Think as one system. Unify art direction and writing into a single idea. No handovers, no silos, every output should feel like one voice expressed through multiple forms.
• Craft with obsession. Words, visuals, motion, interaction; every detail matters. Whether it's a line, a layout, a script, or a prototype, the work should feel precise, intentional, and world-class.
• Tell stories that live everywhere. Shape narratives that translate across film, social, product, experience, and PR. Understand how ideas behave within local, regional, and global cultures.
• Think beyond the ad. Create ideas that exist as acts, products, services, platforms, and content ecosystems. Use technology, AI, and innovation as creative tools, not decoration.
• Make ideas PR-able by design. Build work that earns attention. Ideas should be culturally relevant, conversation-worthy, and designed to travel.
• Own the process end-to-end. From early concept to production and launch, drive the work through every stage. Know when to craft hands-on and when to lead from altitude.
• Collaborate like modern creatives. Work fluidly with strategists, designers, technologists, producers, and the wider AKQA network. Seek tension that sharpens the work, not comfort that softens it.
• Elevate the room. Bring energy, references, and perspective that push the work forward. Mentor others, challenge thinking, and raise the creative standard around you.
• Challenge the brief, intelligently. Ask better questions. Find the tension. Push for the version of the work that will actually move people and create impact.
• Present with clarity and conviction. Tell the story behind the work in a way that builds belief. Make clients feel the ambition, not just understand it.
• Guard the quality. Be accountable for everything that leaves the studio. Ensure every output reflects AKQA's global standard and your own creative integrity.
  
  

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• 5+ years of relevant creative agency or brand side experience with large global projects/clients
• A portfolio with crafted and globally-recognised brand, campaign and experience work, with case studies of work that had a direct impact on the client's business.
• You have a portfolio that demonstrates outstanding thinking and craft across both art direction and writing, showing ideas that are conceptually strong and beautifully executed.
• You have proven success working as part of a creative team within multidisciplinary environments, delivering work across brand, campaign, product, and experience.
• You are confident presenting ideas, both visually and verbally, with clarity and impact.
• You bring a broad and deep cultural perspective, with an instinct for what resonates and travels.
• You are driven to break boundaries and create work that stands at the highest level globally.
• You are relentlessly curious about culture, technology, design, storytelling, and what's next.
• You are fluent across modern tools and workflows, including Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Keynote, and emerging AI platforms.
• You have strong English communication skills (Arabic is a plus).
• You take ownership of your work, your growth, and the people around you, contributing to a culture of ambition, generosity, and excellence.
• Experience leading projects, mentoring others, and working directly with clients is advantageous.

The Creative team at AKQA (part of WPP) applies artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight, bringing to life beautiful and technologically innovative ideas that move the world. From a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, our creatives are innately curious and strive to transform client challenges into groundbreaking, design-led solutions.

As an Associate Creative Director (Art/Design) in our Amsterdam studio, you’ll inspire and lead a team to craft visually striking concepts and executions across CGI, motion design, and interactive media. With a foundation in art direction and deep expertise in production, you will direct specialized CGI artists and guide cross-disciplinary teams to create cinematic, technically precise, and emotionally-resonant work. From large-scale digital platforms and motion-led brand systems, to experimental storytelling powered by emerging tools, you’ll push the boundaries of what’s possible in digital creativity.

You’re a visionary creative leader who thinks like a filmmaker, builds like a technician, and creates like a storyteller, bringing together craft, innovation, and strategy to shape work that influences culture and elevates global brands.

As part of the AKQA team and based in our Amsterdam studio, you’ll work in an environment that fosters a dynamic and inclusive culture, enabled by our multidisciplinary approach and supported by some of the brightest minds in their field. You will report to the Creative Director and collaborate closely with team leads across the studio to continually inspire, innovate, and deliver work of the highest standard.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Deliver and lead award-winning work that meets client needs while influencing culture, blending art direction, design craft, and innovative use of technology.
• Direct and Lead autonomous teams to bring cinematic vision, technical precision, and emotional storytelling into every project — thinking like a filmmaker, building like a technician, and creating like a storyteller.
• Establish and direct creative foundations in concepting art directions for production and motion graphics, ensuring ideas are strategically sound and visually compelling.
• Ability to direct specialised CGI artists across animation, modelling, rigging, lighting, and compositing to maintain creative cohesion and quality.
• Apply craft knowledge across CGI workflows, including modelling, lighting, animatics, grading, and retouching.
• Provide hands-on expertise in retouching, compositing, grading, and finalising large-scale projects, guiding teams through complex production pipelines.
• Implement advanced workflows such as EXR and ACES to ensure colour accuracy, consistency, and creative control.
• Contribute to and lead the development of creative briefs, collaborating with clients and strategists to define opportunities and deliver visionary outcomes.
• Collaborate across disciplines — including design, UX, and development — to integrate creativity, craft, and strategy seamlessly into final outputs.
• Creatively lead new business pitches, presenting ideas and executions with confidence and clarity to global clients.
• Explore and implement AI-assisted workflows (e.g., ComfyUI with open-source models, LoRa training, Google partnerships) to push creative boundaries.
• Demonstrate proficiency in editing (Adobe Premiere, After Effects), motion retouching (DaVinci), and emerging AI generation tools.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Proven experience at Associate Creative Director level or in a comparable art/design hybrid leadership role, with a strong background in both concepting and execution.
• A demonstrated track record of leading award-winning creative work across European and global markets, showcasing the ability to deliver at scale and on an international stage.
• You have experience with AI production using state of the art models, knowing the pros and cons of each and what model to use, when to use what, and how to use each through JSON-based prompting - and how to put different outputs together.
• Strong foundation in art direction and motion graphics, coupled with advanced CGI production knowledge across the full pipeline, from modeling to post-production.
• Hands-on craft expertise in compositing, grading, retouching, and finishing, with the ability to dive into details and elevate the final quality of work.
• Sharp eye for art direction, visual storytelling, and design excellence, ensuring all work meets the highest aesthetic and conceptual standards.
• Experienced in building and maintaining client relationships, growing partnerships through trust, creativity, and consistent delivery of exceptional results.
• Exceptional communicator with the ability to craft and deliver compelling presentations, clearly articulating creative vision, rationale, and executional guidelines.
• Recognised for representing your agency publicly—through talks, mentorship, or thought leadership—and inspiring both peers and the next generation of creatives.

Explore our extensive range of benefits here

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create a better future. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive ideas, services and experiences that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

Designers at AKQA apply systems thinking and craft to create brands, products, and experiences that people genuinely want to use, wear, share, and come back to. In a multidisciplinary environment, they translate insight into form, shaping identities, interfaces, and design languages that feel both culturally alive and beautifully precise.

As a Senior Designer in MENA, you'll play an essential role in shaping the design vision and craft of work across brand, digital, product, experience and campaign. You'll help define and build design systems, produce exceptional work, identities and prototypes, and collaborate closely with creative, strategy, tech, delivery and production to create transformative work for regional and global clients.

At AKQA you will have access to world-renowned thought leadership from influential authors, athletes, artists and entrepreneurs. You will work in an environment which fosters a meritocratic culture and encourages ownership, and you will be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. 

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• 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.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• A compelling portfolio demonstrating design craft and systems thinking across brand, digital, product, campaign and/or experience work.
• Strong ability to develop visual identities, design systems
• Confident in typography, composition, hierarchy and grid systems; high attention to detail.
• Proven success working in collaborative, multi-functional teams.
• Strong design presentation skills (visual and written).
• Culturally literate with a breadth of reference points, and the ability to translate culture into design decisions (not just mood boards).
• Hungry to push boundaries and make work that is distinctive, modern and craft-led.
• Passionate about design best practices and continuously improving your craft.
• Experience in presenting to clients and supporting senior leads is advantageous.
• Degree in Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Visual Studies or related field preferred.
• Extensive experience with industry-standard tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe Creative Suite...).
• Appreciation for production realities: print, digital delivery, responsive behaviour and quality assurance.
• Supplementary skills appreciated: motion design, photography, illustration, 3D, generative/AI workflows, digital installations, creative coding.

 Explore our extensive range of benefits here 

Creatives at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight, creating and bringing to life beautiful and technologically innovative ideas that move the world. From a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, our creatives are innately curious and strive to transform client challenges into beautiful, cutting-edge solutions. 

As a Motion Designer at our Amsterdam studio, you’ll be instrumental in building impactful .com platforms, apps and brand motion design systems with strong conceptual and strategic foundations. Working alongside art directors, designers, and our broader creative team, you’ll transform ideas into captivating motion graphics and animations that will elevate our clients’ brand stories. You’re a visionary designer who sees motion as an art form that plays a key role in bringing a brand to life across the entire customer experience.

As part of the AKQA team, you will work in an environment that fosters a dynamic and inclusive culture, enabled by our multidisciplinary approach and supported by some of the brightest minds in their field. You will report to a Creative Director and will have a close, collaborative relationship with the other Creative, Design, and Experience leads across the studio.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Be part of the creation of compelling motion design systems for .com sites, apps and brand identities, with a strong conceptual foundation rooted in strategic insights.
• Craft high-quality 2D motion, product UI animations, brand system motion principles, and brand- or product short films, sizzles or montages with care and precision across all stages of the design process - from concept idea to detailed execution.
• Collaborate closely with both client and internal teams of creative directors, art directors, brand- & experience designers; inspiring new perspectives and dreaming visions to life.
• Have your finger on the pulse within motion & digital design trends, and curiously combine techniques and software to bring ideas to life and ultimately define culture in the space - whether it’s UI animations on a website or a logo splash closer.
• Flex skillfully between motion systems for brand identities and digital experiences. 
• Create client-facing presentations that articulate your vision, conceptual rationale and philosophy as well as guidelines for execution.
• Translate brand strategic briefs into innovative solutions for complex design challenges.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• A compelling portfolio that demonstrates the breadth of your motion skills and craft across both brand identity and experience projects in .com and app platforms.
• At least 4 years of experience in motion design.
• You have extensive experience with After Effects and are familiar with Figma. You are passionate about learning emerging technologies and motion techniques such as TouchDesigner and Cavalry.
• You are instinctively curious, always looking for the next chapter or cultural movement.
• Any experience with Houdini, Cinema 4D, or other 3D software is a bonus, but not the core part of the role.
• You are a conceptual thinker at heart; you don’t just make things move, but have a clear ‘why’ behind your motion principles and executions.
• You have a relentless drive to learn and grow.

Explore our extensive range of benefits here

At AKQA, we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create a better future. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive ideas, services and experiences that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

Creatives at AKQA apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight to craft beautiful brands, products and experiences that stop people in their tracks. Skilled storytellers, they work in a multidisciplinary environment to unlock new value for our clients.

As a Senior Arabic Copywriter in MENA, you will play a critical role in shaping ideas through language, bringing cultural depth, precision, and originality to everything you write. You will lead the development of Arabic copy across campaigns, platforms, products, and experiences, ensuring the work is not just translated, but born in culture.

There will be the opportunity to learn and grow within a creative and technically advanced environment, with access to ongoing personal and professional development. At AKQA, we’re committed to your growth, as well as your wellbeing.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Lead with hunger, not hierarchy. Drive the creation of bold ideas across campaigns, products, and experiences with the tenacity of a maker and the mindset of an owner; from the spark to the shipped work.
• Write Arabic that lives in culture. Craft original Arabic copy across Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialects, with a deep understanding of tone, nuance, rhythm, and cultural context. Avoid translation thinking, create work that feels native from the start.
• Be a hands-on craft obsessive. Write, refine, rewrite, and elevate. Whether it’s a brand platform, a film script, a case film, a product story, or a social headline, your craft must push the work further every time.
• Bring cultural intelligence.Inject regional insights, behaviours, and tensions into the work. Understand what people care about, how they speak, and what will move them.
• Tell stories that travel. Shape narratives that work in film, social media, experience, product, and PR, and understand how storytelling behaves in the region, in culture, and in global markets.
• Think beyond the ad. Collaborate with strategists, technologists, designers and creatives to shape ideas that live as acts, innovations, prototypes, platforms and content ecosystems, not just campaigns.
• Bring energy that lifts the room. Embrace challenges, pressure, late pivots, and wild briefs as fuel. Be the person who raises the creative temperature and pushes peers to be braver.
• Create work that earns attention. Ideas should be culturally relevant, PR-able, and built to travel, grounded in insight, engineered for conversation, and designed to make brands part of culture.
• Operate like a modern creative. Comfortable switching between AI tools, emerging tech, social formats, product thinking, long-form storytelling, and classic craft to unlock new possibilities.
• Collaborate fearlessly. Work fluidly with multidisciplinary talent across AKQA’s global network, from Ryhad to Dubai to Denmark, bringing clarity, momentum, and a creative point of view.
• Present with conviction. Clearly articulate thinking and storytelling in internal reviews, client meetings, and pitch rooms, driving alignment, belief, and excitement around the work.
• Contribute to the culture. Share inspiration, mentor younger creatives, push experimentation, and help build a studio where ambition, curiosity, and relentless craft are the norm.

QUALIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS

• 5+ years of relevant creative agency or brand side experience with large global projects/clients
• You have  compelling work demonstrating high-quality Arabic writing and concepting across campaigns, platforms, and experiences.
• You are fluent across Arabic dialects, with a deep understanding of linguistic nuance, cultural context, and tone of voice.
• A portfolio with crafted and globally-recognised brand, campaign and experience work, with case studies of work that had a direct impact on the client's business.
• Digital product experience as well as through the line storytelling. 
•  Confident presenter of ideas both internally and to clients.
• Have outstanding written and oral communication skills, interpersonal and interdepartmental.
• Bachelors Degree preferred, but all disciplines welcome.
• You have extensive experience with software like Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and Keynote.
• Natural curiosity that allows you to find inspiration in anything and everything, with an especially keen eye on the future of media and technology.
• You have a drive to break boundaries and craft the best ideas of their kind in the world.
• Possesses excellent writing skill in English (Arabic will be a bonus)
• Craft-driven in how you execute work, presentations, and creative in general.

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 for our clients.

As an Interactive Visual Designer in the design team, you will shape user experiences for our client’s digital channels, ensuring that each interaction is intuitive, engaging, and reflects design excellence. You will design vibrant, usable, and technically sound visual experiences across digital touchpoints for our clients. You will focus on the intersection of motion, interface, and visual storytelling — enhancing usability through aesthetic and interactive visual designs. You will collaborate closely with UX, product, engineering, and design teams to bring ideas and concepts to life while maintaining visual and brand integrity.

Your work will ensure that every screen, transition, micro-interaction, and visual asset aligns with established design ethos, elevating the creative vision and brand experience.

Location - Mumbai 

Role Requirements

• 6-8 years’ experience in visual, interactive, or UI design roles within agency, product, or digital studio environments

• Strong portfolio demonstrating interactive and/or motion-focused design across web & mobile form factors

• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Principle, Framer, etc.)

• Solid grounding in typography, layout, color, iconography, and visual hierarchy

• Experience designing responsive/ adaptive interfaces across multiple platforms

• Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and style guides

• Basic understanding of front-end (HTML, CSS, JS) for developer collaboration

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or related field

Qualifications and Characteristics

• Strong visual eye: balance, polish, and design integrity

• Ability to craft smooth, thoughtful interactions and motion design

• Detail-oriented with a passion for pixel perfection and consistency

• Skilled at usability evaluation, prototyping, and iteration

• Comfortable working in a multi disciplinary set up and at client locations

• Curious and experimental — actively exploring trends, tools, and new techniques

• Resilient in fast-paced environments, adaptable to ambiguity and shifting priorities

• Proactive mindset, ownership mentality, and accountability from ideation to delivery

• Possess great written and verbal communication skills

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to design a better future. Our Product Design Directors craft the interfaces, systems, and experiences that define how brands behave in the modern world, across mobile, spatial, voice, wearables, and AI-powered environments.

As a Product Design Director in Berlin, you will lead the design of products and brand ecosystems for a focused portfolio of high-impact clients — spanning luxury, mobility, and technology. You’ll guide multi-disciplinary teams to create elegant, brand-led experiences and design solutions that are as intelligent as they are inspiring.

You’ll define how brands translate into living systems — across interfaces, services, content, and AI-powered interactions, establishing benchmarks in accessibility, interaction, and multi-modal experience. You’ll champion the new frontier of brand user interfaces: adaptive design languages that translate brand identity into behaviour, sound, motion, and intelligence.

AKQA Berlin Product Design Directors operate at the intersection of brand, product, and emerging technology, shaping solutions that are not only beautifully designed, but commercially effective and scalable  – working side-by-side with strategy, data, and engineering teams

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Lead concept, design, and delivery of world-class digital products and connected experiences that define new standards for creativity and usability.
• Partner with UX, Creative Technology, and AI Engineering teams to shape AI-native interfaces, generative UI systems, and adaptive design components.
• Establish and evolve brand-led design systems that perform across screen, voice, gesture, and spatial interfaces.
• Translate brand platforms into functional, usable, and measurable product experiences.
• Embed accessibility and inclusivity from first principles, ensuring WCAG compliance and usability for all audiences.
• Drive rapid prototyping and experimentation, particularly across AI, generative systems, and emerging interaction models
• Mentor, grow, and inspire a diverse team of designers, cultivating craftsmanship, critical thinking, and innovation.
• Collaborate closely with strategists, client partners, and our creative teams to translate brand purpose into tangible, useful digital products that truly resonate.
• Represent AKQA in new business opportunities, articulating the value of design in solving complex business and human challenges.
• Play a key role in client leadership and growth, shaping opportunities and articulating design’s commercial value.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• 10+ years’ experience (as a guide, not a restriction) in product design or interaction design at leading studios or in-house teams.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with senior client stakeholders.
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end product ecosystems, not just screens or features.
• Mastery of Figma and contemporary design-system workflows (tokens, auto-layout, component libraries), along with complementary tools, such as code-based interaction design software and no-code web and app solutions.
• Strong understanding of human-centred design, accessibility, motion, and micro-interaction principles.
• Experience working with AI-driven design workflows and emerging technologies.
• Familiarity with AI design tools, prototyping in Framer, Principle, ProtoPie, or After Effects, and collaboration with machine-learning or data-science teams.
• Demonstrable success in uniting brand and product through interface design, e.g. motion language, sound design, or spatial storytelling.
• Experience mentoring mid- and senior-level designers; a track record of growing creative excellence and cultural impact.
• Comfortable presenting to senior clients and executives, and confident operating within fast-paced, high-stakes environments.
• Systems thinker with keen eye for detail and a deep sensitivity to brand and narrative.
• Calm, credible communicator who brings clarity and optimism to complex challenges.
• Obsessed with emerging technologies and their human potential.
• Strong point of view on how AI is reshaping design, products, and brands
• Advocates for inclusive design and accessible innovation.
• Balances bold vision with precision in craft.

This is a key leadership role within AKQA Berlin, a studio defined by its ambition to punch above its weight, combining global relevance with a tightly knit, international team.  You will imagine what’s next and make what matters for brands including Porsche, Riese & Müller, IWC and Google. You’ll be at the forefront of AI-powered product design, helping redefine how creativity, intelligence, and empathy coexist in every interaction.

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At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create ideas, products and services that move the world forward. We exist at the intersection of design, technology and culture — creating work that is as meaningful as it is beautiful.

As Group Creative Director, the opportunity is to define what comes next.

Leading the vision, shaping the work, and setting the standard for digital craft across brand and product experiences, this role guides ideas from first thought to final execution — ensuring they are intelligent, innovative and unforgettable.

A creative leader and maker at heart, this role balances bold thinking with meticulous craft. Teams are built, talent is elevated, and an environment is created where great ideas thrive.

Global product storytelling and launch experiences sit at the core moments where every detail matters, and every interaction carries meaning.

Influence extends beyond the work itself, shaping culture, raising ambition, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

This role is embedded within a client team in London and requires onsite collaboration in the client studio three days per week.

This is a 6–9 month fixed-term contract, offered on a hybrid basis.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Define and uphold the creative vision and standard across all brand, product, and interactive work
• Lead the end-to-end creative process, from concept through to execution and delivery
• Deliver innovative, high-craft digital experiences that meet both client and business objectives
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (design, UX, copy, technology) to solve complex challenges
• Mentor and develop creative talent, fostering a high-performing and inclusive team environment
• Act as a trusted client partner, confidently presenting and defending creative ideas
• Translate strategic objectives into compelling creative solutions and narratives
• Champion and implement emerging technologies and workflows (e.g. AI, CGI, prototyping)
• Ensure alignment through regular creative reviews and feedback loops
• Lead and contribute to new business pitches and opportunities
• Elevate AKQA’s reputation through award-winning work, case studies, and industry presence
• Balance creative ambition with commercial impact, ensuring effective and efficient delivery
• Influence cross-functional teams, championing design excellence across the studio
• Maintain a hands-on approach where needed, guiding craft and execution at key moments

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• A visionary creative leader with a relentless commitment to craft and innovation
• Deep expertise in digital design, brand systems, and interactive experiences
• A multidisciplinary mindset, spanning product, brand, and technology
• A natural mentor who brings out the best in people and teams
• A compelling storyteller and presenter, able to inspire clients and colleagues alike
• Both strategic and hands-on, blending conceptual thinking with executional excellence
• Curious and forward-thinking, with a passion for emerging technologies
• Commercially aware, with the ability to balance creativity with business impact
• Collaborative, empathetic, and confident, able to navigate complexity and drive alignment

Explore our extensive range of benefits here.

Creatives at AKQA (part of WPP) apply artistry and craftsmanship to strategic insight to create and bring to life beautiful concepts that stop people in their tracks. Skilled storytellers and ideators, they work in a multidisciplinary environment to develop work that both enthralls customers and unlocks new value for our clients.

Art Directors play essential roles in the strategy, conception and design of beautiful ideas, products and services. They bring exceptional creative thought and they craft output, developing and delivering projects from the brief to end user.

As an Art Director at AKQA, you’ll conceive and develop ideas that solve important client problems. By thinking beyond briefs and imagining approaches our clients may not have asked for – or even thought possible – you’ll be helping to build AKQA’s reputation for work that is both ground-breaking and influential.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Possess exceptional art direction skills and the ability to implement strategic and conceptual thinking.
• Collaborate with copywriters, strategists, UX/visual designers and technologists to develop innovative and persuasive concepts.
• Drive the development of creative ideas for new business pitches and other important agency initiatives.
• Develop pioneering ideas that deliver successful solutions.
• Be accountable for the project design deliverables and manage the quality of all design deliverables to ensure they meet AKQA standards for creative excellence.
• Embrace challenges and inspire new ways of thinking.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Extensive hands-on experience with client work within Japan, with the ability to communicate effectively with both team members and clients in both Japanese and English.
• A compelling portfolio that demonstrates the breadth of your conceptual thinking and design craft.
• Exceptional communication skills that enable you to articulate the ‘why’ behind your concepts.
• A drive to break boundaries and craft world-changing ideas.
• Passionate, driven and obsessed about your craft, staying abreast of best practice in your field.
• Natural curiosity that allows you to find inspiration in anything and everything, with a keen eye on the future of media and technology.
• Strong industry-relevant experience.

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. We work at the intersection of design, technology and culture to deliver experiences that are as considered as they are impactful.

Our designers bring clarity to complexity, combining strong visual craft with strategic thinking to create work that feels effortless, precise and deeply intentional.

As a Senior Designer, you will play a critical role in shaping high-quality interactive experiences across digital platforms. You will contribute to the creative direction of projects, crafting refined, elegant design solutions that balance concept, usability and meticulous attention to detail.

Working within an embedded client team, you will help define and deliver digital experiences that support global product storytelling and launch moments, ensuring every interaction is purposeful, cohesive and held to the highest standard.

This role is with AKQA, embedded within a client team, and requires onsite collaboration in the client studio three days per week.

This is a 6–9 month fixed-term contract, offered on a hybrid basis.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Create exceptional visual design across web and interactive platforms, with a focus on clarity, hierarchy and precision
  
  
• Contribute to concept development and carry ideas through to beautifully executed outcomes
  
  
• Design systems, interfaces and components that scale across multiple touchpoints and experiences
  
  
• Collaborate closely with UX, copy, technology and production to ensure seamless integration of design and functionality
  
  
• Translate ideas into sketches, prototypes and high-fidelity designs with speed and accuracy
  
  
• Uphold and elevate the level of craft across all work, ensuring consistency and attention to detail at every stage
  
  
• Present work with confidence, clearly articulating the thinking behind design decisions
  
  
• Work in close partnership with senior creatives to refine and evolve the overall design direction
  
  

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Significant experience in visual and interactive design, ideally within an agency environment
  
  
• A portfolio that demonstrates a high level of craft, taste and attention to detail
  
  
• Experience designing for large-scale digital platforms or global brand ecosystems
  
  
• Strong understanding of layout, typography, motion and interaction design principles
  
  
• Ability to move fluidly between concept and execution
  
  
• Proficiency in modern design and prototyping tools
  
  
• Experience working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams
  
  
• Comfortable operating at pace while maintaining a consistently high standard of output
  
  

• Deeply detail-oriented, with a commitment to precision and quality
  
  
• Strong sense of visual taste and design judgment
  
  
• Curious and thoughtful, with a drive to refine and improve the work
  
  
• Calm, focused and solutions-oriented in fast-paced environments
  
  

Confident communicator, able to build trust with clients and teams alike

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to design a better future. Our Product Design Directors craft the interfaces, systems, and experiences that define how brands behave in the modern world, across mobile, spatial, voice, wearables, and AI-powered environments.

As a Product Design Director, you’ll lead the design of products and brand experiences for some of the world’s most influential organisations, from luxury ecosystems and cultural platforms to next-generation mobility and wellness systems. You’ll guide multi-disciplinary teams to create elegant, human-centred design solutions that are as intelligent as they are inspiring.

You’ll define design direction across a portfolio of complex, high-impact digital products, establishing benchmarks in accessibility, interaction, and multi-modal experience. You’ll champion the new frontier of brand user interfaces: adaptive design languages that translate brand identity into behaviour, sound, motion, and intelligence.

AKQA Product Design Directors operate at the intersection of brand, craft, and computation, working side-by-side with strategy, data, and engineering teams to shape products that learn, evolve, and earn love over time.

This is a leadership role within AKQA’s London studio, part of a globally connected studio network shaping the future of digital experiences for brands including Nike, Rolls-Royce, Samsung, Airbnb, and Google. You’ll be at the forefront of AI-powered product design, helping redefine how creativity, intelligence, and empathy coexist in every interaction.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Lead concept, design, and delivery of world-class digital products and connected experiences that define new standards for creativity and usability.
• Partner with UX, Creative Technology, and AI Engineering teams to shape AI-native interfaces, generative UI systems, and adaptive design components.
• Establish and evolve brand-led design systems that perform across screen, voice, gesture, and spatial interfaces.
• Embed accessibility and inclusivity from first principles, ensuring WCAG compliance and usability for all audiences.
• Drive experimentation across new modalities: voice and audio UX, wearable ecosystems, computer vision, and mixed reality.
• Mentor, grow, and inspire a diverse team of product designers, cultivating craftsmanship, critical thinking, and innovation.
• Collaborate closely with strategists and client partners to translate brand purpose into tangible, useful digital products.
• Represent AKQA in new business opportunities, articulating the value of design in solving complex business and human challenges.
• Contribute to AKQA’s global culture of learning, sharing insights on design ethics, AI co-creation, and emerging interaction paradigms.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• 10+ years’ experience (as a guide, not a restriction) in product design or interaction design at leading studios or in-house teams.
• Proven leadership in delivering large-scale, multi-platform digital products from concept to launch.
• Mastery of Figma and contemporary design-system workflows (tokens, auto-layout, component libraries), along with complementary tools such as code-based interaction design software and no-code web/app solutions.
• Strong understanding of human-centred design, accessibility, motion, and micro-interaction principles.
• Familiarity with AI design tools, prototyping in Framer, Principle, ProtoPie, or After Effects, and collaboration with machine-learning or data-science teams.
• Demonstrable success in uniting brand and product through interface design, e.g. motion language, sound design, or spatial storytelling.
• Experience mentoring mid- and senior-level designers; a track record of growing creative excellence and cultural impact.
• Comfortable presenting to senior clients and executives, and confident operating within fast-paced, high-stakes environments.
• Systems thinker with a deep sensitivity to brand and narrative.
• Calm, credible communicator who brings clarity and optimism to complex challenges.
• Obsessed with emerging technologies and their human potential.
• Advocate for inclusive design and accessible innovation.
• Balances bold vision with precision in craft.

Please include your portfolio link and examples of your work in your application. We are not able to accept applications that do not include a link to your work.

Explore our extensive range of benefits here.

AKQA (part of WPP) is a creative agency that transforms strategic insights into beautiful concepts through art and craftsmanship, guiding clients toward a better future.

As an Associate Creative Director, you will be expected to go beyond the brief—developing strategic approaches based on consumer insight, generating bold and innovative ideas, and presenting them as compelling narratives to clients.

At AKQA, our work extends far beyond advertising. From building brand and CX visions to designing digital and physical experiences, our projects span a wide range of disciplines. While leveraging your creative expertise built through past experience, you will also be expected to cross boundaries and take on new challenges in unexplored domains.

In particular, AKQA Tokyo is on a mission to grow our team and become Japan’s leading creative agency—one that creates a better future for brands through transformative brand experiences that go beyond traditional marketing. We are looking for passionate, ambitious new talent to join us in this journey.

Role Requirements

• Deliver and inspire award-winning work from both yourself and others who work with you, influencing where appropriate a dramatic change through ideas, creativity and the use of interactive media.
• Lead, direct and manage a cross-disciplinary and culturally diverse set of talents, both internal and external to AKQA to deliver successful solutions and high-quality works to clients on time.
• Create ground-breaking work that positively impacts our clients, our teams and the world.
• Foster and line-manage creatives that are eager to grow their craft in art direction, copywriting or design.
• Learn new skills and stay abreast of technical and digital design developments, and successfully apply them to work practices to help improve processes and procedures.
• Work with other AKQA network creatives collaboratively on joint initiatives.
• Work closely with the strategy teams to shape briefs that empower our teams to deliver work that pushes our client's brand to the forefront of their global audience's minds.
• Extensive hands-on experience in client work within Japan, with the ability to communicate effectively with both team members and clients in both Japanese and English.

Key Responsibilities

• Creative briefs

Contributes to strategic development of a well-defined creative brief and any additional briefing documents, speaking with the client directly when necessary. Listens to and responds to a brief, understanding where/if there are gaps. Knows what questions to ask during the briefing session in order to act upon it. Understands how to respond to a brief.

• Idea generation
  Leads by example to consistently inspire creative colleagues to originate world- class, pioneering ideas that conceptualize world-class solutions. Generates useful, usable ideas across all existing and emerging digital platforms. Continually develops practices and processes to inspire, innovate and harness new ways of thinking.

• New business development
  Creatively leads new business pitches. Responsible for crisp ideas and creative workflow; effective and dynamic storyteller for oral pitch presentation.

• Creative craft skills
  Selects the most appropriate supplier for the required task. Successfully leads multiple suppliers, partners and clients to ensure outsourced projects are creatively delivered on time, within budget and to the highest standards. Helps to ensure AKQA continues to create unique and inspirational solutions.
  
  
• Stakeholder management
  Successfully manages multiple suppliers, partners and customers to ensure the best outcome for both customer and AKQA. Keeps stakeholders informed of project progress at all times and manages expectations proactively.

• Client Leadership
  Understand client business goals and ambitions. Takes briefs from clients and successfully creates stories that communicate client’s needs and ambitions to the consumers.

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to design a better future. Our Product Design Directors craft the interfaces, systems, and experiences that define how brands behave in the modern world, across mobile, spatial, voice, wearables, and AI-powered environments.

As a Product Design Director, you’ll lead the design of products and brand experiences for some of the world’s most influential organisations, from luxury ecosystems and cultural platforms to next-generation mobility and wellness systems. You’ll guide multi-disciplinary teams to create elegant, human-centred design solutions that are as intelligent as they are inspiring.

You’ll define design direction across a portfolio of complex, high-impact digital products, establishing benchmarks in accessibility, interaction, and multi-modal experience. You’ll champion the new frontier of brand user interfaces: adaptive design languages that translate brand identity into behaviour, sound, motion, and intelligence.

AKQA Product Design Directors operate at the intersection of brand, craft, and computation, working side-by-side with strategy, data, and engineering teams to shape products that learn, evolve, and earn love over time.

This is a leadership role within AKQA’s London studio, part of a globally connected studio network shaping the future of digital experiences for brands including Nike, Rolls-Royce, Samsung, Airbnb, and Google. You’ll be at the forefront of AI-powered product design, helping redefine how creativity, intelligence, and empathy coexist in every interaction.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Lead concept, design, and delivery of world-class digital products and connected experiences that define new standards for creativity and usability.
• Partner with UX, Creative Technology, and AI Engineering teams to shape AI-native interfaces, generative UI systems, and adaptive design components.
• Establish and evolve brand-led design systems that perform across screen, voice, gesture, and spatial interfaces.
• Embed accessibility and inclusivity from first principles, ensuring WCAG compliance and usability for all audiences.
• Drive experimentation across new modalities: voice and audio UX, wearable ecosystems, computer vision, and mixed reality.
• Mentor, grow, and inspire a diverse team of product designers, cultivating craftsmanship, critical thinking, and innovation.
• Collaborate closely with strategists and client partners to translate brand purpose into tangible, useful digital products.
• Represent AKQA in new business opportunities, articulating the value of design in solving complex business and human challenges.
• Contribute to AKQA’s global culture of learning, sharing insights on design ethics, AI co-creation, and emerging interaction paradigms.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• 10+ years’ experience (as a guide, not a restriction) in product design or interaction design at leading studios or in-house teams.
• Proven leadership in delivering large-scale, multi-platform digital products from concept to launch.
• Mastery of Figma and contemporary design-system workflows (tokens, auto-layout, component libraries), along with complementary tools such as code-based interaction design software and no-code web/app solutions.
• Strong understanding of human-centred design, accessibility, motion, and micro-interaction principles.
• Familiarity with AI design tools, prototyping in Framer, Principle, ProtoPie, or After Effects, and collaboration with machine-learning or data-science teams.
• Demonstrable success in uniting brand and product through interface design, e.g. motion language, sound design, or spatial storytelling.
• Experience mentoring mid- and senior-level designers; a track record of growing creative excellence and cultural impact.
• Comfortable presenting to senior clients and executives, and confident operating within fast-paced, high-stakes environments.
• Systems thinker with a deep sensitivity to brand and narrative.
• Calm, credible communicator who brings clarity and optimism to complex challenges.
• Obsessed with emerging technologies and their human potential.
• Advocate for inclusive design and accessible innovation.
• Balances bold vision with precision in craft.

Please include your portfolio link and examples of your work in your application. We are not able to accept applications that do not include a link to your work.

Explore our extensive range of benefits here.

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 experiences that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients. 

The Associate Design Director at AKQA will approach every brief with fresh eyes. Avoiding familiar solutions, the candidate will create and inspire work that is distinctive, effective and truly remarkable. They lead by example to consistently inspire creative colleagues to create world-class, pioneering ideas that conceptualise world-class solutions, while acting as a strategic and conceptual leader on projects. Associate Design Directors at AKQA display a cohesive understanding and can execute the principles that make innovative and effective digital communications, interface design, and interaction design.

We exist to create the future with our clients and that partnership is the basis of our practice. We work collaboratively across client teams to ensure each experience is of the highest quality and has a measurable impact on the customer and business alike.

As part of the AKQA team in Tokyo, you will work in a dynamic, globally-minded environment surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. Together you will create world-class experiences for both Japanese and overseas markets.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Sets creative direction throughout all phases of project work from discovery to launch and beyond with ongoing optimization
• Acts as a creative lead for one or more accounts, managing multiple tracks of work across a variety of teams
• Works internally and with clients to develop the strategy, experience concepts and establish the overarching design direction for the experience
• Produces compelling and highly usable experience solutions in response to client needs
• Communicates and represents creative vision and execution with client partners
• Continually develops processes to inspire, innovate, and harness new ways of thinking
• Inspires and leads by example, setting professional standards for the team and the department
• Actively trains, mentors, and manages junior to mid-level creatives and designers.
• Responsible for managing and guiding junior to mid-level creatives’ careers within AKQA (including regular one-on-one check-ins), writing and delivering annual performance reviews, and taking responsibility for on-boarding new employees and guiding them through a successful tenure at AKQA
• Creatively participates in new business pitches – i.e. responsible for ideas and creative work, and competently presents pitches
• Be able to guide but also prepared to be hands on with exceptional experience in industry design tools
  
  

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in the creative industry
• Native or fluent Japanese reading and speaking ability is essential.
• All candidates must possess a portfolio showcasing a comprehensive understanding of how l their creative disciplines comes to life and how they applied their thinking, including conceptual and executional (art direction, user experience and UI design) contribute to a finished product
• Demonstrated creative success in leading collaborative cross disciplinary teams
• A solid understanding of the marketing industry at large; an ability and a desire to adapt to the changing landscape of technology
• Experience in, and enthusiasm for, creating digital platforms and products from brief to delivery and beyond.
• Experience in side-by-side collaboration with UX and development teams and leaders
• Strong working knowledge of user interface, application, mobile and responsive design
• Exceptional communication skills: Verbal, written, interpersonal and inter-departmental
• Superb professionalism and mature presence in all aspects of the job
• Thought leadership: A strong point of view; ability to contribute to the strategic development of an assignment; creative ideas and the ability to promote conceptual thinking among the team

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