Are you a UX designer who combines strong UX thinking with solid visual design skills, excited to work on AI-powered experiences at scale?
Do you thrive in fast-moving environments and enjoy working closely with product, engineering, and design in a squad setup?
About the Team
Elsevier’s Academic & Government (A&G) group helps researchers and institutions discover,analyse, and share knowledge to advance human progress.
LeapSpaceis our AI-assisted research workspace, designed to transform how researchers interact with information and generate insights. Following its launch, we are scaling adoption and continuously improving the experience based on real-world usage.
You’llbe part of a cross-functional squad working in a fast-paced, collaborative environmentwhereexperimentation and user feedback drive decisions.
About the Role
As a UX Designer II, you play a key role in shaping intuitive, high-quality user experiences withinLeapSpace.
You bring strong interaction and interface design skills, with a clear eye for visual quality and detail.You’recomfortable moving quickly from concept to execution, working closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to deliver meaningful solutions.
You also collaborate closely with other designers across squads to ensure a consistent and cohesive experience across the product. This requires strong alignment on quality, patterns, and design principles.
The design team is a close, collaborative group where open and respectful communication is key. Designers actively share work, give and receive feedback, and support each other in improving outcomes. We care deeply aboutcraft, butleave ego at the door. Our goal is to create a product experience that feels cohesive, intentional, and thoughtfully designed end-to-end.
You thrive in a fast, experimental environment and enjoy vibe coding to quicklyvisualiseideas, prototyping, and refining them in close collaboration with engineers.You’recurious, ask thoughtful questions, and focus on achieving the best outcomes together with your team.
Responsibilities:
* Translate user needs and research insights into effective design solutions
* Design intuitive, trustworthy AI-driven experiences
* Create high-quality flows,journeysand UI designs with strong visual craft
* Balance speed, experimentation, and interface quality in a fast-paced environment
* Collaborate across teams while constructively challenging ideas and communicating clearly
* Contribute to scalable design systems and cross-team reuse
* Proactivelyidentifygaps and improve experiences beyond immediate ownership
* Use research, data, and testing tovalidateand improve designs
Requirements:
* Solid experience in UX and interaction design
* Strong visual/UI design skills and attention to detail
* Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, collaborative environment
* Comfortable navigating ambiguity and asking the right questions
* Open to feedback and focused on team outcomes
* Proficiencywith design tools such as Figma
Work in a way that works for you:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across theorganisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. Withnumerouswellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, studyassistanceand sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working flexible hours — flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
Working for you:
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
* Flexible working
* Coverage by the Company’s pension and insurance scheme after 3 months of employment
* Theoptionof employer paid internet services
* Generous leave types
* Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
* Access to extensive learning and development resources
* Access to Well Being & Employee Assistance Programs
* RECARES days, giving you 2 days per annum to support the charities and causes that matter to you
* Access to employee offers and discounts
* Additionaloffice location benefits
About Elsevier:
Working in technology at Elsevier means your work hasrealimpact. As part of theLeapSpaceteam, you will help shape AI-powered experiences that change how research is done globally.
This role combines:
* High craft bar (UX + visual)
* Speed and experimentation
* Strong collaboration culture
* Low-ego, highly collaborative teamwork
* A focus on creating a cohesive product experience across the platform
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