Senior UX Designer – Corporate Solutions

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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 or a design skill which helps advance our mission? We’d love to hear about it!

Our vision and values

We invest in, nurture and support innovative businesses and technologies that make all parts of the research process more open, efficient and effective.

The talent we secure is fundamental to us achieving our vision and our growth plans. The values we live by are:

We are brave in the pursuit of better

We are collaborative and inclusive

We are always open-minded

We are from and for the community We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

About Digital Science

Digital Science is a technology company working to make research more efficient. We invest in, nurture and support innovative businesses and technologies that make all parts of the research process more open and effective. Our portfolio includes admired brands including Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, ReadCube, Symplectic, IFI Claims, Writefull, and Overleaf. We believe that together, we can help researchers make a difference.

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