Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We need a UX Consultant to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with project and product teams to design intuitive, user-centered digital experiences. You will work on design, strategy, and research efforts across a variety of projects, ensuring that the end-user is at the heart of every decision. As a UX consultant, you will be expected to bring a strategic approach to UX and work with multiple teams and disciplines, bring innovative ideas to from initial concepts to implementation and improve existing products.

Role accountabilities:

UX Design & Strategy: Create user-centered, intuitive designs balancing user needs, business requirements and implementation realities. Develop wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups. Design information architecture, user journeys, product flows and interaction models for complex digital solutions. Stakeholder Engagement & Insights: Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and problems.  Synthesize customer and business findings into actionable insights, communicate findings effectively to stakeholders and build consensus around designs. Develop personas, user journeys, and scenarios to guide design decisions. Advocate for best practices in user experience design while balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints. Collaboration & Leadership: Lead workshops and design sprints to solve complex user problems. Work closely with product and solution functions, and stakeholders to define and refine project goals and deliverables. Collaborate with other designers across the organization and to provide insight and guidance in UX methodologies, documentation and ownership. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are feasible and meet business goals. Advocacy & Thought Leadership: Be a champion for user experience across the organization, educating internal teams on UX best practices and the importance of user-centered design. Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and methodologies to ensure the UX team is at the forefront of design innovation.

Qualifications & Experience:

Experience

3+ years’ experience in a professional UX design role with a strong portfolio demonstrating a wide range of projects, from research to final design implementation. Experience leading design efforts on complex, large-scale enterprise products, preferably in multiple industries or domains. Proven ability to design and deliver intuitive and impactful user experiences. Experience with Agile methodologies and working in cross-functional, agile teams. Experience in digital transformation projects or enterprise-level design initiatives.  Familiarity with UX research methodologies (e.g., user interviews, usability testing, surveys, heuristic evaluations). Proficiency in design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, etc.) and prototyping tools. Familiarity working and maintaining design systems and component libraries.

Education

A degree in UX Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Strong knowledge of UX design principles, usability heuristics, and accessibility standards. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale to non-design stakeholders. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear and actionable design solutions. Ability to lead and mentor a team, guiding junior designers while still being hands-on in design execution. Knowledge of front-end development processes (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus but not required.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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