Experience Designer

Amplifiedabout 1 year ago
Portland, Oregon, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Position Overview

At Amplified, design is a way of thinking. As an Experience Designer, you will envision and create the visible framework of our products and services, working at the intersection of business requirements and user needs. You will combine human‐centered design with strategic vision to transform the way people engage with our offerings.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with business and strategy teams to gather and distill product, service and user requirements
  • Work with the research team to uncover insights around user needs, synthesizing takeaways using role models, personas, task analysis, and conceptual modeling
  • Design and specify the digital experience through an iterative and human-centered design process
  • Generate concepts that capture the essence of the digital product/service experience via journey maps, storyboards, screenplays, service blueprints, interaction flows and wireframes
  • Collaborate with industrial, architectural, service and visual designers to create a holistic experience for the end user
  • Create physical and/or digital prototypes to communicate design to stakeholders and for user evaluations
  • Work with technology teams to ensure that the design intent is represented in production and serve as the gatekeeper for quality

Required Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of UX design experience
  • Able to articulate and communicate the ideas and rationale behind your design concepts and decisions
  • Passionate about creativity and design
  • Willing to push the boundaries of solutions and take risks
  • Able to appreciate and comfortably navigate ambiguity
  • Have a positive “can-do” attitude
  • An eye for detail
  • Willing to experiment
  • Kind and collaborative
  • Have strong people and project management skills
  • Convinced that being a designer is not just a job, but who you are

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in industrial and environmental design a plus

Required Skills

Journey Mapping
User Research
Stakeholder Communication
Human-Centered Design
Interaction Design
Wireframing
Collaborative Design
Conceptual Modeling
Prototyping
UX Design