UX Designer II

Do you thrive on turning complexity into elegant, user-centered journeys? Are you inspired by the prospect of helping 50 million users/month and publishing scientific knowledge?

About the team:

ScienceDirect is the world's leading collection of science information on the web and Elsevier's flagship product.

The ScienceDirect UX team consists of 1 UX Researcher, 3 UX Designers, and 1 UX Manager. They collaborate closely with the wider organizations across ScienceDirect, Scopus, Engineering Village, Knovel, and the Design System team.

The team works as part of cross-functional squads, partnering with Product, Engineering, QA, and other roles while also collaborating within the centralized UX team and the broader Elsevier UX community of 70+ researchers and designers.

At Elsevier, we’re evolving how we work by integrating AI into cross-disciplinary teams, with UX playing a central role. This is an opportunity to shape new ways of working, collaborating across domains, and grow your skills as we learn and experiment together.

About the role:

As a UX/UI Designer, you will partner closely with product, research, and engineering in cross-functional teams to deliver user-centred solutions to complex challenges. You’ll identify problems, develop concepts and hypotheses, and design, prototype, and help test solutions with users.

You’ll collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and customer-facing teams (such as marketing, sales, and support), and use data and insights to inform your decisions. You’ll own the design work within your team end-to-end, while working with fellow designers and using the design system to ensure consistency across products.

Key responsibilities:

Partner with product managers and engineers to define the roadmap and backlog, and to ensure strategic alignment and effective working processes.
Support researchers in conducting user research and usability tests 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 within ScienceDirect and on other products in the portfolio to create aligned experiences.
Help improve our design team practices, support other designers as needed, and engage 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 and/or UX analytics.
Attention to detail and proficiency in producing UX flows, design concepts, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes.

Ability to collaborate with designers, product managers, and developers, and communicate persuasively to influence decisions.

Experience delivering products embedded in a squad in an Agile environment.

Enthusiasm and a willingness to tackle complex problem spaces, experiment with new tools, learn, and share with the wider Elsevier community.
Nice to have: Experience with content-heavy products; designing for search, browse, and deep reading experiences
Nice to have: Experience working in complex content ecosystems, information science, or library science
Nice to have: Familiarity working with enterprise-level design‑systems

About the business –

ScienceDirect is home to almost one-quarter of the world's peer-reviewed full-text scientific, technical, and medical content.

More than 50 million researchers, healthcare professionals, teachers, and students rely on ScienceDirect as a trusted source of nearly 2,200 journals, 26,000 book titles containing over 23 million articles and book chapters.

The platform supports research and education with tools that help users discover and stay up to date with relevant research.

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