UI/UX Designer

At Configura, we believe that well-designed spaces have a profound impact on individuals, organizations, and the planet. Our purpose is to help create spaces where people and businesses can thrive, perform, and grow. Our vision is to be the world's most intelligent platform for designing sustainable, efficient, and beautiful spaces. Together with our community, we push the boundaries of what's possible in space design.

Care to join us? If you're a UI/UX Designer,  we have an opening for you!

Configura is headquartered in Linköping (Sweden) with with SIX wholly-owned subsidiaries in Grand Rapids (Michigan, USA), Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Shenzhen (China), Berlin (Germany), and Tokyo (Japan). At Configura, we are team players who always help each other! Our atmosphere is very friendly with committed Configurans who strive towards our goals together. We love problem solving and to find innovative solutions. 

WHAT WE OFFER YOU
We have an opening in our Linköping office for an enthusiastic individual who is eager to contribute towards improving the user experience of our products. You will be a member of a cross-functional agile team developing a new product within the web domain. This will give you the opportunity to be creative and innovative in defining and refining the product direction together with your team.

In this role it’s important that you have strong communication skills as you will also support other developments teams and collaborate closely with other UI/UX Designers.

If you want to work for a global company with Swedish roots and a genuine care for its employees, this position could be for you. We are especially proud of our approach for teamwork and strong work enthusiasm among our talented employees.

WHO WE BELIEVE YOU ARE
A curious problem solver and a team player, yet with the ability to work independently. You are ambitious, positive and always aiming for improvements by putting the user in the centre and pushing the limits of what is possible.
Quality is your top of mind, always with the perspective of our users' needs.

Responsibilities:

• Cross-functional collaboration, with eg Product Owners, Architects, and Developers, to create a cohesive design and user experience.
• Conduct user research and analysis to discover design opportunities and inform design decisions.
• Clearly communicate the user need to stakeholders and fellow team members.
• Create mockups by utilizing a design system with components and design guidelines.
• Create user test scenarios and prototypes to validate design hypotheses.
• Follow up solutions and concepts in order to evaluate and improve the user experience.
• Be part of the entire development processes, from start to finish.

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCE

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a digital design related discipline.
  
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience of user research and user-centred design processes.
• Understanding of agile development frameworks.
• Understanding of Design Thinking.
• Experience in using Sketch, Figma, InVision or similar tools.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish.

Preferred skills 

• Experience facilitating workshops.
  
• Experience with user testing, lean UX, working in cross functional teams.
• Experienced working with user journey mapping, impact mapping, service blueprints or similar methods.

As a member of the Configura family, you will be given the opportunity to grow and develop your skills in an innovative and high-tech environment surrounded by committed, talented and enthusiastic co-workers from all our offices.
At Configura, we combine office-based work with working remotely. We believe that the office is important for innovation, knowledge sharing, spontaneous meetings, information exchange and social interaction. Therefore, we see our offices as the primary work locations even though we have the opportunity to partly work remotely when the business allows.