Junior Designer Studio Team (Consulting) 2022

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Launch your career with Arup

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

Digital Studio is our strategic design and user experience team within Arup. Our core aim is to shape a more sustainable, human-centred built environment through creative and innovative design solutions. Being a multidisciplinary team, we combine expertise in design, user research, strategy, storytelling, architecture and technology to deliver services to our clients. We ground the ideas we deliver in participatory research and make ideas tangible through concept design, prototyping and user testing.

The Studio operates across a range of sectors, working with city governments, local councils, developers, universities, cultural institutions, tech companies and infrastructure providers. We have worked with clients such as British Land, University of Melbourne, Victoria & Albert Museum, Alphabet, Highways England, and city governments in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Sheffield, amongst others. We also collaborate with academic partners such as the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, RMIT University in Melbourne, and the Royal College of Art.

Overview of the role

Designers are central to the 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:

• Support with conducting research (including desk research, user interviews, spatial or behavioural observations) to generate understanding of spatial and social challenges and inform design work;
• Independently create compelling drawings for new design concepts for spaces, buildings, districts, products, and/or digital interventions. These can vary in level of fidelity, ranging from hand sketches through to line drawings, illustrations, perspective renderings and/or plans. These should help communicate concepts to a range of technical and non-technical audiences;
• Support with creating mockups and prototypes for digital design concepts, such as storyboards, wireframes, user journeys and/or visual renderings, that articulate the desired user experience;
• Support with creating mock-ups and prototypes of spatial interventions and testing these with future users;
• Support with designing workshop artefacts and facilitating workshops for clients, collaborators, and communities;
• Presentation preparation – throughout the process, designers need to prepare various reports, design artefacts, and workshop activities for clients and stakeholders.

What are we looking for? 

We are looking for a junior designer with interests in applying human-centered design to re-imagine the world around us, using participatory research and holistic design approaches to solve complex challenges.

You will have experience with the below:

• Experience developing design concepts through a critical perspective and communicating them in a visual manner;
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, namely InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop;
• Experience with human-centred or service design methods, including Design Council's Double Diamond design approach, user research techniques, and co-design methods.

Other skills or experience that are desirable could include any of the following:

• Other skills in 3D design and rendering software, animation or video production;
• Skills or interests in understanding or visualising data;
• Experience in making and physical prototyping;
• Experience in ethnographic or behavioural science techniques.

Qualifications

You will have a degree in Design or design-related field, which may include Architecture, Urban Design, Service Design, Strategic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, or Social Innovation.

If you do not have one of the above qualifications but can demonstrate how you've applied human-centred thinking within or beyond your field of study, we welcome your application.

Please note: You must be available to start this opportunity in September 2022.

What we offer you

• Working with a dynamic team, immersed in multiple sectors such as place-making, mobility, nature-based solutions, culture, government and property.
• An inclusive and empowering work culture, with the opportunity to contribute your ideas, and learn from other colleagues, both within Studio and across Arup's global network.

Beyond a competitive 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.

Next steps

Complete the application form, attaching any required documents. We'll be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. You are therefore strongly encouraged to apply in advance of the application deadline.

Different people, shared values

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

At Arup, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic. Our internal employee networks - BAME, Culture, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women - provide a space for you to express your views and to make a positive difference - discover more about life at Arup here.

At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.

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