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Senior User Experience / User Interface Designer
Elsevier
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Role Purpose:
Elsevier continues to build an innovative team in Philadelphia to develop next generation learning experiences and redefine healthcare education. Our UX team works boldly and collaboratively on concepts and designs for a user-centric suite of teaching and learning tools. We now require a Senior UI/UX Designer to create interaction/visual designs and conduct user feedback sessions for our education products. If you have a UI design background and have moved into UX, we would like to talk with you. Join a team of 10 UX professionals that has strong support from upper management to lead UX/UI, will give you autonomy in your work and will support you to learn and grow in your career.
Key Responsibilities:
• As a Sr. UI/UX Designer, you’ll co-lead an agile product squad with the tech lead and product manager. You will also work closely with other UX specialists, designers, frontend and backend engineers, and other internal teams to help deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Create interaction/visual designs to communicate possible solutions to user needs and generate new product ideas.
• Collaborate with other team members to build consensus and make the best design decisions.
• Assist in defining and maintaining the UI style guide across the education product family.
• Professionally conduct user research sessions by listening compassionately to our users and quickly and accurately summarize the feedback to bring back key information to the team.
• Present research findings and design concepts in a professional manner, and provide clear explanation based on design principles and research findings.
• Continuously strengthen your knowledge and skills in everything design and UX related. Share the awesome things you learn with the team.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
Required Qualifications:
• Experience (5+ years) creating engaging designs for web and mobile applications.
• Experience (2+ years) conducting user research and usability studies. Also skilled with various research methods, card sorting, innovation games, and survey writing.
• Online portfolio of exemplary design and user research deliverables.
• Expert knowledge of UX and interaction design best-practices and patterns.
• A passion for building easy to use, delightful user experiences.
• A love for talking to users and learning about what they do and how they work.
• Innate ability to understand complex systems and problems and ability to see the big picture. You think strategically, but can practically apply it without getting lost in the clouds.
• Awesome listening and personal interaction skills. Did you hear that?
• Excellent attention to detail – you should notice even the smallest inconsistencies.
• Respectful team player. Love to laugh. Relaxed and determined. Problem-solver. Puzzle-solver. Challenge-lover. Knowledge sponge. Enthusiastic. Awesome.
• Confident, yet very humble. Little ego, big open mind.
Preferred
Qualifications:
• Formal education in design or user experience.
• Experience designing complex web applications (beyond marketing/brochure websites).
• Experience designing mobile native apps and mobile web apps.
• Web accessibility experience.
• Front-end development experience. Some understanding of what’s technically feasible, and when to ask.
• Experience working in an agile environment with issue tracking tools to track daily work.