UX/UI Designer

Role: UX/UI Designer

About Downstream

Downstream is a global team of designers, technologists, developers, and project leaders creating impactful brand experiences for some of the world's most dynamic companies.

Primary Job Description

The User Experience Designer will collaborate with our multidisciplinary design teams to shape meaningful digital experiences that effectively realize the goals of our clients. The User Experience Designer will be on the front lines of the ideation process bringing form to user interfaces, problem solving, and applying strategic thinking to unique, site-specific digital platforms that include large format touch-screens and Audio/Visual configurations.

The User Experience Designer will also play a research role and contribute the design process by objectively validating and quantifying the effectiveness of our design decisions. This research role includes identifying exercises and process related approaches that will give the team actionable insight that will inform an iterative approach to design.

Supervisor Responsibilities

The Downstream leadership team will work with you to establish personal goals annually. These goals will be set collaboratively to create clear expectations for growth and development. The leadership team will also partner with you to manage junior staff, build productive design teams, and contribute to business success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

4+ years experience in User Experience Design

Proven track record creating successful experiences for Fortune 500 clients

Champion principles of usability and user-centered design

Passionate about creating best-in-class user experiences

Proven ability to multitask and work on several projects simultaneously

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Other Duties

Translate abstract concepts into simple and elegant user interfaces

Create concept models, user interface sketches and detailed schematics

Work closely with designers and developers to ensure the success of design systems

Participate in the brainstorming and creation of concepts for best in class user experiences

Participate in discovery workshops and stakeholder interviews

Develop user personas and scenarios

Determine business requirements and feature set

Building content strategies and narrative that support a world-class design team

Realizing design concepts and building long-term client success

Establishing efficiencies in executing content concepts, thematic narratives

Content frameworks, use case scenarios, headlines and scripts