Job 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, propose patterns, and strengthen consistency across multiple security products.
  
  

• Championing design practices, coach peers, and make 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 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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