User Experience and Design Specialist II at Arcadis in Romania

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

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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: The User Experience and Design Specialist II will support business productivity by designing complex enterprise applications that improve business processes. We are looking for designers who can turn business problems into well-designed solutions and bring creative ideas that shape the user experience.

Role accountabilities:

• Translate complex business requirements and workflows into clear user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups in Figma.

• Create high-fidelity interactive prototypes that demonstrate the complete end-to-end user journey for stakeholder review and validation.

• Apply the design system consistently across applications and contribute new components and guidelines when gaps are identified.

• Explore new concepts, visual directions, and interaction ideas to improve the overall user experience, while staying aligned with the design system.

• Apply usability principles and best practices to create intuitive and efficient designs for enterprise users.

• Use user feedback and data to guide design decisions, while following the design system guardrails.

• Ensure interfaces are usable, accessible, and inclusive, and review existing designs against these standards when needed.

• Present design concepts and the reasoning behind them to business stakeholders, and adjust designs based on their feedback.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and developers to explore ideas and design new features and functionality.

• Help define problem statements and hypotheses with Product Owners and Business Analysts to keep design work focused on the right business problems.

• Perform user research as needed to validate assumptions and improve design decisions.

• Take part in regular design reviews, giving and receiving feedback to keep design quality consistent.

• Support business and tech teams through development and handoff, making sure the final application matches the approved design.

• Practice continuous learning in UX/UI trends, tools, and techniques.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 3–5 years of experience in UX/UI or digital product design.

• Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, variables, and interactive prototyping.

• Proven experience designing within an established design system and applying it consistently across multiple screens and applications.

• Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise web applications with detailed business rules, workflows, and approval processes.

• Proven ability to translate business requirements and processes into clear user journeys, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes.

• Strong understanding of usability principles, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards.

• Good understanding of UX/UI principles, human-centered design, and design thinking methods within an Agile environment.

• Confident in presenting and explaining design decisions to business stakeholders.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex processes into intuitive interfaces.

• A portfolio that shows enterprise application work, as well as strong visual and conceptual design skills, original ideas, and the ability to set a clear design direction for new features or projects.

• Awareness of emerging UX/UI trends, tools, and technologies, including AI-assisted design.

• Degree in User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Digital Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with SharePoint or SPFx-based applications.

• Familiarity with AI tools such as Figma AI, Microsoft Copilot, or GitHub Copilot.

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.