UX Designer

We continue to revolutionize the creation of workplace to meet the needs of today’s ever-changing global brands. Our agile, end-to-end experience, delivered seamlessly across borders, is powered by strong client partnerships and enabled by sound workplace intelligence and transformational technology.

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We believe that everyone should work in an environment that inspires productivity, peak performance and delivers wellbeing.

Across our 48 global studios we see that positive work environments foster open, collaborative and supportive cultures populated by highly independent, motivated people.

While our core business is strategising, designing and building workplaces for some of the biggest brands in the world, we know our people are our #1 asset.

We look after them with an extensive Employee Value Proposition program which includes rewards and recognition, career development and a focus on wellbeing.

Downstream is :

• A multidisciplinary Experience Design and Creative Technology firm that strives to do things differently and purposefully.
• Our work is diverse and challenging. One size never fits all, so we look to design and deliver the right solution to the right problem for every client.
• We work together to create best-in-class experiences, built on considered strategy and enabled by technology and people.
• A global company, connected to an international team. Each of our 3 office locations is producing exciting and innovative projects and technology.

The Role :

We’re looking for a UX Designer to work with our multi-faceted group of designers and developers at our US Headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

You will help deliver amazing digital experiences within best-in-class branded environments. You will be well versed in UX methodologies and the human-centric design principles.

You’ll also be experienced with complex project requirements and working closely with clients and stakeholders to design and document the most impactful user experiences.

Responsibilities :

• Play a critical part in designing branded experiences in the built environment that translate across multiple digital and physical touchpoints.
• Facilitate co-design workshops internally and externally to help realize clients’ visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and communicating user experiences.
• Collaborate with diverse experts and advocate for the user within the context of complex projects.
• Work closely with internal Creative and Technical Strategists to help translate a creative vision to technical documentation to inform both clients and the development team (Labs).
• Apply your 5+ years of design strategy experience to amazing interactive experiences within meaningfully branded, physical environments.
• Devise and deliver usability testing on low and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new functions and features.
• Take a human-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
• Expect to travel up to 5-10% of the year for client engagements.

Requirements / Qualifications :

• Five or more years of UX design experience in consulting, agency and / or inhouse.
• Expertise in design and UX software such as Figma (Downstream preferred), InVision, Sketch, Axure or Adobe CC, and the like.
• Ability to work with colleagues and clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Extensive experience in using and establishing UX design best practices to help streamline the process between design to development.
• A solid grasp of human-centered design and testing methodologies, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be willing to help teammates, share knowledge and experience with them, and learn from them.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation.

Why diversity is important to us?

Our team is diverse and our way of working is inclusive. The wide range of backgrounds, interests, capabilities and perspectives makes us better, stronger and more innovative.

Our diversity is a crucial element in creating a high-performing team that makes no assumptions and remains resistant to the status quo.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to recruiting and promoting the best person for every role. We are determined to provide a working environment that is free of discrimination based on race, nationality, gender, age, disability, religious belief, marital and family status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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