Senior UI Designer- Freelance

VML is a global creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands that drive growth. Guided by a Human First philosophy, VML is known for its innovative work for brands and consistently ranks among the world’s leading creative companies, including the WARC ...

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Define, evolve, and scale design systems across products and platforms.
Establish visual direction and ensure consistency across digital experiences.
Design intuitive, polished interfaces for CRM and other digital platforms.
Build and maintain modular asset libraries that support scalable, efficient production.
Translate brand and business requirements into compelling UI experiences.
Partner with UX, strategy, technology, and cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive experiences.
Apply T-shaped design skills, contributing across both UX and UI when needed.
Integrate AI tools and workflows to accelerate exploration, production, and quality.
Represent and advocate for strong visual craft across teams and client engagements.
Apply experience working with healthcare and pharmaceutical clients, including the ability to navigate regulated environments and complex stakeholder needs.

Senior-level experience in UI/product/digital design, preferably in an advertising agency or marketing environment.
Proven CRM experience.
Experience creating and managing modular design and asset libraries.
Demonstrated experience working with healthcare and/or pharmaceutical clients.
Strong portfolio showcasing exceptional UI, visual design, and design-system work.
T-shaped skill set: deep expertise in UI with strong working knowledge of UX, interaction design, and user-centered design principles.
Experience defining visual direction and maintaining design consistency across multiple platforms.
Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and modern digital design patterns.
Experience using AI tools to enhance design exploration, iteration, and production.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
Ability to work independently as a freelancer while managing priorities, timelines, and deliverables.

The successful candidate will elevate the visual quality of digital experiences, create scalable design solutions, strengthen design-system adoption, and bring a balance of UI creative craft, UX thinking, CRM expertise, healthcare/pharma experience, and AI-enabled efficiency to every engagement.
Ideally 3-6+ years of UI Design working with campaign management, project and product launch teams as well as demonstrated experience in advertising or marketing communications; a minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience in an Ad Agency is required
Self-driven with proven experience working with multi-disciplinary teams (CX, CRM, Strategy, Data, Creative, Project Management) across North American offices
Good understanding of emerging standards, user-centered design, the consumer journey, optimization and search practices
High EQ and the ability to read what a team needs to help motivate them
The compensation for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package. Click WPP Benefits for more details.
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$70—$90 USD
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