Experience Designer II

Experience Designer II

Senior User Experience and User Interface Designer (UX/UI)

We are looking for an Experience Designer II to help us create exciting new designs for museums and other public spaces. The right candidate will have a team-oriented attitude, the ability to achieve consistently compelling designs, and an enthusiasm for improving standards through quality assurance of all creative deliverables, and developing new capabilities. The candidate will have 5+ years of industry experience in graphic design or user interface design and work with project teams to conceptualize design and present innovative digital and environmental experiences that connect with audiences for Ideum’s museum and corporate clients.

Experience Designer II will report to the Experience Design Manager and give updates to the Executive Producer of Design showing the progress of their work. However supported by Ideum leadership, they have the ability to work autonomously, require very little feedback or design correction, and demonstrate a well-versed knowledge of layout, color, composition, and typography. They are self-motivated, engaged with their teams, and dependable under tight deadlines.

Core Requirements and Duties:

• 5 + years experience in a graphic design or user interface design profession
• Directly contributes to the conceptual development of projects
• Creates and ideates materials for proposals and new business responses
• Can quickly design and execute creative deliverables, often in collaboration with teams
• Presents creative concepts to internal teams and clients
• Tests user experience and user interface designs on target hardware for usability
• Upholds Ideum’s standards of design through quality assurance of all creative deliverables from hardware, structural, and application design
• Contributes to the culture and development of Ideum
• Assists Software Developers with spec and QA designs to ensure designs support a facile path to production in software development
• Works collaboratively with Producers, Exhibit Design, VFX, Software Development, Hardware Workshop, Fabrication, and AV Engineering teams
• Can manage multiple project deliverables under tight deadlines
• Demonstrated organizational skills
• Dependability and commitment to results
• Engagement in team communications

Guide to Advancement:

• A command of the craft of design, consistently achieving compelling aesthetic solutions that meet or exceed designs from competing design firms
• Demonstrated growth in the ability to work in teams and receive and act on feedback from the Experience Design Manager, the Executive Producer of Design, CXO, the Founder, and others
• Demonstrated talent and knowledge of layout, color, composition, and typography
• Well-versed proficiency with relevant design software
• Ability and desire to learn and explore new types of software
• Ability to work with printers and understand print production
• Advanced skill set in environmental graphic design
• Increasing autonomous ability to generate and refine ideas into thoughtful, provocative concepts and articulate ideas both verbally and visually
• Understanding of overall application design, including usability, industry standards, architecture, and navigation
• Demonstrates inspiration and passion for Visual Design
• Team leadership and exceptional communications

About Ideum

We are a multidisciplinary experience design firm that focuses on using emerging technologies in creative and unexpected ways. We create visitor-centric exhibits that evoke wonder, awe, and surprise, but that also tell important stories about science, art, history, and culture that have a lasting impact. We work with museums, educational institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and other entities throughout North America and around the world. Our firm provides design services, custom software development, media systems design and installation, and custom fabrication.

Our multitouch tables and touch displays are practical implementations of recent advances in multiple areas of emerging technology. Our hardware products are built to be used in social environments where they encourage interaction and collaboration. We take pride in what we design and build, and we focus on reliability and performance to create products that last. We’ve been a leader in touch table development for nearly 15 years.

We are located in scenic Corrales, New Mexico (near Albuquerque and an hour from Santa Fe). Please visit our portfolio and product website to learn more about us: http://www.ideum.com.

Be... and Incentives

Compensation between $55,000 to $65,000 depending on experience

Equal Opportunity & Eligibility

Ideum, Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. This application will not be used for limiting or excluding any applicant from consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Should an applicant need reasonable accommodations in the application process, he or she should contact a company representative.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

How to Apply

Please include a resume, cover letter, and a relevant portfolio.

No phone calls or walk-ins, please. NOTE: *Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.