Senior UX Designer - Corporate Solutions

Department: Product Development

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Europe, Remote

Description

About us
We are Digital Science and we are advancing the research ecosystem. We are a pioneering technology company, and our vision is of a future where a trusted and collaborative research ecosystem drives progress for all. We believe in better, open, collaborative and inclusive research. In creating the next generation of tools and working in partnership with the community we tackle some of the biggest challenges to research. In order to achieve our vision, we need innovative, inspiring and dynamic people to join our team. Want to join us?

Digital Science is a fast-growing, mission-driven technology company offering software products to advance research and enable researchers to focus on their mission. Our software is used by millions around the world in a range of fields from students, to professional scientists at biotechs and pharmaceuticals, to governments and funding agencies. We are a group of open-minded, brave and collaborative people, with a vision to create a future where a trusted, frictionless, collaborative research ecosystem drives progress for all. Currently we have over 15 individual products, covering data and information visualisation, publishing workflow management and scientific collaboration.

Your new role 

This flexible, fully remote role is within the newly established central design team. The successful candidate will help understand problems and craft meaningful holistic solutions in the corporate research space. This is an exciting time to join the company with an opportunity to materially impact how design is done at Digital Science and create a positive impact for millions of people advancing global science.
We are looking for a senior level strategic designer who enjoys working in complex domains to create meaningful impact and thrives in collaborating with multiple teams. Many of our design problems will revolve around efficiency, information retrieval and visualisation with a diverse range of opportunities to tackle some unique design challenges and interaction paradigms sparked by new technologies such as AI.

Due to business need, we can only accept applications from candidates based in the UK, Germany, Romania, Spain, Poland, Portugal and Hungary.

What you’ll be doing

• Partner with product teams and other designers to run both generative and evaluative design research projects leading to actionable insights - using a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods
• Bring clarity, direction and collaboration to ambiguous design problems with conceptual design, remote workshops and visual communication across multiple senior stakeholders
• Prototype and iteratively craft pragmatic, simple and efficient product experiences which work within established constraints and solve problems in a systematic manner
• Work in close collaboration with product, engineering and marketing teams to ensure consistently high design quality and measure design impact
• Work closely with design and product leadership to contribute to practice alignment and designOps initiatives
• Help foster collaborative practices and rituals both within the design team and across adjacent disciplines 
• Contribute to collaborative prototypes and develop concepts for new interaction paradigms sparked by technologies like AI with a particular focus on design ethics

What you’ll bring to the role

• Extensive experience in delivering strategic and systematic UX work within enterprise, AI or other highly complex domains
• Ability to own an end-to-end human-centred design process, working independently or in partnership with other designers
• Ability to plan and execute remote design research activities and workshops using qual., quant., and co-design methods, leading to data-informed design decisions 
• Experience in working with and maintaining design systems
• Collaborative, humble and consultative mindset - we are not rock stars here and we leave our egos at the door to be successful
• Clear visual communication and storytelling skills to help communicate design rationale for the team and leadership
• Ability to strategically balance scope, speed and quality for the best outcomes 
• Fluent design production in modern collaborative design tools and ideally interactive prototyping (e.g. Figma, Miro etc.)
• Experience in mentoring designers, service design, designing for human - AI interactions, data visualisation or inclusive design would be an advantage
• Have a unique perspective, experience