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Senior UX Designer
@Public Library of Science
[Hiring] Senior UX Designer @Public Library of Science
Mar 07, 2025 - Public Library of Science is hiring a remote Senior UX Designer. 💸 Salary: £58,000 - £80,000. 📍Location: UK.
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Role Description
PLOS is a nonprofit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all.
We're seeking a Senior UX Designer who thrives on problem-solving and refining experiences through research, data, and testing, a product-focused thinker with a passion for understanding the "why" behind design decisions and their impact on customers and business. A highly self-motivated individual, who will make confident decisions and take ownership of projects from concept to implementation.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership in the areas you are working on from discovery to delivery, with a focus on putting the user first
- Use prototyping to test and visualize hypotheses as a crucial part of experimenting and learning with the team and stakeholders
- Work closely with Product Managers to define problems, scope, and hypotheses
- Partner with engineers to ensure your designs are feasible and implemented with precision
- Establish and maintain visual consistency across all touch points
- Collaborate with engineers, drawing inspiration from their expertise to experiment and solve problems
- Collaborate with the Head of UX & Design to establish the in-house design function
Qualifications
- Degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related field (or equivalent industry training/experience)
Requirements
Essential
- Proven ability as a Senior UX Designer
- Evidence of working in an agile development environment alongside Product Managers, subject-matter experts, researchers, content designers, and developers to design and build new digital services
- Proven industry experience in applying design knowledge—graphic design, interaction design, and service design—to real-world applications
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Able to demonstrate experience and skills in:
- designing user interfaces
- designing and fulfilling user needs
- designing and building a new digital service
- Capable of demonstrating knowledge of graphic design, including web typography, progressive disclosure, hierarchy, color use, and the role of imagery and iconography
- Experience in effectively collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams, ensuring design decisions are grounded in evidence-based user research and a thorough understanding of user journeys
- Experience in simplifying complex data and information into clear and understandable forms for users
- Evidence of working to WCAG 2.1/2.2 standards
- Can demonstrate end-to-end "design ownership" across different phases of a relevant production process
- Skilled in designing systems for use across multiple services and adept at identifying the simplest solution from a range of alternatives
- Demonstrated ability to integrate standards into team projects
- Show the importance of constraints, clearly communicating them to both design and non-design team members, and developing solutions that respect these limitations
- Experience of acting independently and taking action when dealing with uncertain situations or optimizing opportunities
Desirable
- Experience in contributing to design systems, including patterns, components, and elements
- Experience of using data visualizations to communicate quantitative information quickly
- Experience of iterating design patterns
- Proven ability to think strategically and take steps toward achieving strategic goals
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Personal accident insurance
- Pension with up to 10% employer match
- 25 days holidays, market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
- Birthday and three winter holidays days off
- 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year
- Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office
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£58,000 - £80,000
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