UX Designer

UX Designer II

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, 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:

• Partner with product managers and engineers to define the roadmap and backlog, and to ensure strategic alignment and effective working processes.
• Support designers and researchers in conducting user research and testing to understand user needs and inform your design decisions.
• Ideate and prototype quickly and produce detailed design deliverables to ship your designs into production.
• Ensure your product designs meet user needs, support business goals, are technically feasible, and are consistent with our design system.
• Collaborate with designers on other products to create aligned experiences.
• Help improve our design team practices, and support other designers as needed as well as engaging with the design community at Elsevier.

Technical skills & qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience as a UX/UI or product designer.
• A portfolio that displays a range of your work to date including User Experience (UX), User Interface design (UI), and ideally User Research.
• Attention to detail and proficiency in producing UX flows, design concepts, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes using Figma or similar tools.
• Ability to collaborate with designers, product managers, and developers, and communicate persuasively to influence decisions.
• Experience of delivering products in an Agile environment.
• Enthusiasm and a willingness to tackle complex problem spaces.

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 organization. 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.