Senior UX Designer I 

  Do you thrive on turning complexity into elegant, user-centred journeys? Are you inspired by the prospect of helping the scientific community discover and publish knowledge?

About the team:

Publishing research is at the core of Elsevier’s business. We help ensure quality research accelerates progress for society by organising the review, editing and dissemination of around 17% of the world’s scientific articles. 

The Submissions team develops tools and services to support authors, reviewers, and journal editors through the academic publishing process. These run from large, complex workflow products to simple, single-page services. Our efforts will help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve outcomes for the benefit of society.  

About the role:

As a UX/UI Designer, you will partner closely with cross-functional product and engineering teams to deliver services by identifying problems, developing workflows, conducting research, looking at analytics to understand user behaviours, identifying pain-points, making testable recommendations, and creating and user-testing new solutions.

You will own all aspects of design for your team, solving and delivering solutions to complex UX challenges, while using our design system to ensure cross-product consistency. You will be part of a design team of 15 with an enthusiastic, innovative culture that sits within a larger design community of practice at Elsevier.

Key responsibilities:

• Customer (or User) Focus. Has a solid understanding of customer use cases.

• Rallies the cross-functional team around customer needs.

• Advocates for customers with the agile team and helps inspire the team to want to know more.

• Creates processes that are good at discovering customer needs and product design options.

• Aligns the team and coaches the team to ensure customer needs are met. Creative Problem Solving.

• Involves customers in product innovation that delivers value to users and growth.Can challenge the status quo with confidence.

• Demonstrates energy and vision to see through innovative ideas.

• Regularly tests design work with users in partnership with the UX Research team.

• Iterates research methods based on testing and data analysis.• Uses data to inform future testing strategy.

Technical skills & qualifications: 

• Has an excellent knowledge of the tech stack of the organisation.

•  Uses design software (Axure, Sketch, InVision) to earn an expert level.

•  Mentors junior designers in technical skills.

• Builds good working relationships with tech teams.

• Produces designs across all platforms.

Why join us?

Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving global knowledge-sharing.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Flexible hours - flex the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days. 

• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits.

• Wellbeing programs.

• Life assurance.

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme.

• Long service awards.

• Save As You Earn share option scheme. 

• Travel Season ticket loan. 

• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.

• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children.

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you. 

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer. 

• Access to extensive learning and development resources.

• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work.

About Elsevier :

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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