Senior User Experience Designer

Are you ready to design products that make a real impact for global users?

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

Join our team

Akamai is seeking a User Experience Designer to design enterprise and developer-facing products, including next-generation AI infrastructure. This role focuses on creating intuitive, scalable experiences for complex systems, from early concept through launch in close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Partner with the best

You will play a key role in designing major products and features, working closely with product owners from concept through launch. You will have a proven track record of shipping products that users love.

As an User Experience Designer, you will be responsible for:

• Owning end-to-end design and rapid prototyping for features from concept to delivery in close collaboration with your team.
• Translating complex cloud, security, and AI systems into intuitive experiences across UI, API, CLI, and IaC.
• Creating cohesive, scalable experiences that connect developer workflows and platform capabilities.
• Collaborating cross-functionally, participating in design critiques and reviews to align stakeholders on solutions.
• Using research and data to inform and validate user-centered design decisions.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have UX/UI design experience in product or B2B SaaS
• Have experience designing developer workflows (APIs, infrastructure).
• Be familiar with AI/ML workflows such as model deployment and inference.
• Have the ability to simplify complex systems into intuitive, scalable experiences.
• Have experience working in ambiguous or early-stage product environments, iterating quickly and delivering clarity through design.
• Be proficient in prototyping and iterative design, using research and analytics to guide design decisions

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.