UX Designer

UX Designer I

Are you passionate about designing intuitive digital experiences and eager to make an impact in a collaborative, research-driven team?

Do you thrive on solving real user problems and want to grow your skills in UX, accessibility, and emerging technologies like AI?

Elsevier’s mission is to advance human progress together. The Pure team supports this mission by developing, improving and maintaining the world’s leading Research Information Management System – an extensive digital solution for importing, managing, editing and exporting research work and everything related to the world of research. Within Pure you will also be working with advanced user flows that allow our users to create customised reports, apply for funding opportunities and review research content and applications internally.

You will be joining a team of 5 other passionate UX Designers and take part in weekly design critiques, methodology discussions and a shared effort to improve own and other’s skills and maturity within the field of UX Design. Besides that, you will be working daily with developers, product managers and various other stakeholders working towards a unified goal of making our products the best they can be.

Besides Pure, you will be joining a larger collaboration around a multitude of different product offerings within the world of research. The main goal is to create a unified experience between Elsevier products and you can expect to be working on other products than Pure when business needs demands it. This also means that you will be working with many different designers, developers and product managers in an effort to elevate the user experience across a large product portfolio.

As UX Designer I you will be playing a supporting role, typically under the guidance of a more senior designer, on projects that are small to medium in scope. You will suggest new design patterns but primarily work within pre‑existing frameworks.

• Understands how UI design impacts the overall user experience.

• Is familiar with and can use customer frameworks (e.g. Jobs To Be Done, personas, journey maps).

• Keeps up to date on news/incidents and understands what is happening in the market and with competitors.

• Asks the right questions to explore the problem.

• Independently identifies different creative solutions.

• Considers the problem from a number of angles.

• Contributes to discussions about the future of the product or organisation.

• Looks for opportunities to develop new ideas or thinking within own role.

• Iterate on defined user experience concepts and components for the product or project using tools such as wireframes, prototypes, and process flow diagrams.

• Works with UX Researcher to understand the user needs.

• Assist in developing concepts for the customer‑facing product/application.

• Work closely with visual designers and web developers to ensure the UX is implemented as designed.

• Implement basic UCD solutions/processes.

• Works with existing design patterns and style guides, occasionally introducing new patterns.

• Can clearly articulate design rationale and concepts.

• Proactively uses data to establish key metrics for projects.

• Explores data from analytics packages, customer insight or other sources to understand context of research work.

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

• Iterates research methods based on testing and data analysis.

• Suggested Minimum Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  1‑3 years.

• Has a good knowledge of the tech stack of the product or organisation.

• Uses relevant tools for communicating designs to developers.

• Uses Figma to intermediate level.

• Proactively identifies needs for training in technical skills.

• Understands the nuances of designing for different platforms.

• Uses relevant tools for communicating designs to developers.

• Takes ownership of own development and career.

• Initiates regular conversations with manager, coach or mentor regarding self‑development.

• Understands what is required by the business to be…