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Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants and technical specialists, working across every aspect of today's built environment. Together we help our clients solve their most complex challenges – turning exciting ideas into tangible reality as we strive to find a better way and shape a better world.
The Studio Team
Within our Digital Services Group, Studio is our small strategy and experience design team. Being a multidisciplinary team, we combine expertise in research, strategy, storytelling, architecture and technology to deliver the services and concepts to our clients.
At our core is an aim to help the built environment become more imaginative, innovative, and human-centred. We ground the ideas we deliver in research and make ideas tangible through prototyping and user testing.
The Studio's clients include technology companies like Alphabet, Ericsson R&D abd Samsung, urban development companies like British Land and Lendlease, districts like Adur & Worthing and Stratford Waterfront, infrastructure providers such as Highways England and Heathrow Airport, campuses for University of Melbourne and Welcome Trust, buildings like Collingwood Arts Precinct, Google's new Kings Cross headquarters, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and city governments in Amsterdam, Melbourne, Sheffield, and London, amongst others. We also collaborate with academic partners like the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, RMIT University in Melbourne, Royal College of Art and many others.
Overview of the role
Designers are a central figure in the Digital Studio's process and take a considerable share of responsibility for the success of our work. An ideal candidate will take part in the following activities:
- Independently create compelling drawings for new concepts for buildings, cities, products, digital interventions. These could be technical drawings and plans, but also renderings, perspective line drawings, illustrations or hand drawings to help communicate the idea to a non-technical audience
- Support with creating mock-ups and prototypes of spatial interventions (for example public furniture or digital totems) and user testing these
- Support with creating mock-ups and prototypes for digital deliverables, such as proof of concept documents, storyboards, wireframes, user flow diagrams, and visual renderings, etc.
- Support with designing workshop artifacts and facilitating workshops for clients, collaborators, and communities
- Support with conducting research (including user interviews, spatial observations) to generate understanding of spatial challenges and deliver new concepts for interventions
- Presentation Prep – throughout the process, designers must prepare various reports, artifacts, and workshop tools for clients and stakeholders
What we are looking for
You will have experience and proficient with the below:
- Advanced - Adobe Creative Cloud, skilled user of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
- Advanced - Skilled user 3D design program, ideally SketchUp, Mayo, Rhino and related rendering
- Experience with video editing / post production such as After Effects and Premiere
- Experience with basic front end development languages
- You will have a degree in Design, which may include Architecture, Product design or Graphic design.
You must be available to start this opportunity in September 2022.
What we offer you
Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.
As a membership organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme. Our people also have access to a range of broader wellbeing benefits.
You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities including a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university.
Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.
