Experience Designer / UX Designer, Senior Analyst
We are looking for a curious, collaborative, and capable consultant to help clients unlock the full value of digital technologies. You will partner with senior designers and consultants to understand user needs, shape digital experiences, and prepare design artefacts that support delivery.
About you
* Curious, collaborative, and keen to grow your design and consulting capability.
* Able to support research, synthesis, journey mapping, wireframing, UI design, prototyping and documentation.
* Comfortable receiving direction and feedback and turning it into better work.
* Detail-oriented with a strong sense of accessibility, user needs and the practical realities of delivery.
* Passionate about learning how consulting teams work with clients, stakeholders and engineering teams.
* Enthusiastic about exploring design, canvas, prototyping and AI tools, while learning how to use them responsibly in client work.
What it's like to work with us
At Avanade, we aim to make a human impact. Our creative, experience and advisory teams expand rapidly, offering plenty of opportunities to grow your career. You will be supported by seasoned leadership who will encourage, challenge, and advocate for you.
In compact, multidisciplinary teams, you can have a significant impact on client relationships, market offerings, delivery quality, and team dynamics.
About the Job
In this role, you will support colleagues and clients in making complex digital ideas clearer and more usable. You will contribute to research, design, and delivery activities while developing your consulting skills, design judgment, and understanding of technology-enabled transformation.
Key Responsibilities
* Support discovery activities including desk research, interview preparation, note-taking, synthesis, and insight documentation.
* Create first‐pass journey maps, task flows, wireframes, UI screens, prototypes, and design documentation under guidance.
* Maintain Figma or similar design/prototyping files, design‐system components, variables, annotations, and handoff hygiene.
* Support usability testing, accessibility checks, design QA, and delivery handoff preparation.
* Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Design Leads, Design Engineers, and client teams to understand design problems and delivery constraints.
* Use AI‐assisted tools responsibly to support synthesis, exploration, documentation, microcopy, prototype variation, and QA under senior guidance.
* Develop confidence in client conversations, workshop support, storytelling, and presentation of design rationale.
Qualifications
* Client‐led, curious, collaborative, and enthusiastic about how human‐centred design, business, and technology combine inside consulting engagements.
* Foundational UX, UI, interaction design, visual design, and human‐centred design skills.
* Proficiency in design and prototyping platforms such as Figma, Sketch, or similar, including prototyping, design documentation, and handoff hygiene.
* Proficiency in experience canvas tools such as FigJam, Miro, or Mural for journey mapping, workshop capture, synthesis, flow mapping, and collaborative design work.
* Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud or similar creative tools to create, adapt, and prepare assets, diagrams, and visual material for research, prototypes, and client deliverables.
* Ability to analyse research inputs, identify patterns, and contribute to clear design artefacts.
* Strong attention to detail, communication, collaboration, and willingness to learn.
* Awareness of accessibility, responsive design, design systems, and digital delivery practices.
* Familiarity with AI‐assisted design and prototyping tools such as Figma Make, UX Pilot, Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Google Stitch, or similar; interest in building working examples under guidance.
* Undergraduate degree in design, human‐computer interaction, business consulting, computer science, or a related field, with demonstrable curiosity for new knowledge and relevant certifications, professional learning, or equivalent industry experience.
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