Director UX Research
Are you looking for a technology leadership role to drive innovation?
Would you like to lead a team that delivers high-quality UX Research and Design to our customers?
About our Team
The Corporate Markets portfolio at Elsevier provides both rich content and decision-making analytic tools to a range of customers. We work across Pharma & Biotech organizations and academic institutions. We provide clean, reusable data, enabling R&D and industry engineers to optimize decision making and cycle time.
About the Role
As a Director of UX Researcher, you will lead a team to create exceptional user experiences. You’ll drive innovation and ensure seamless interaction between users and digital products. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to align design strategies with business objectives is also a key aspect of this role.

Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring, you will grow our UX Research and Design function, fostering an environment conducive to creativity and innovation
• Championing and lead user-centred research activities and align them with our business objectives and technological capabilities.
• Conducting comprehensive user research, execute usability tests, and synthesise data to inform insightful, evidence-based design decisions
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders and the product development team to oversee the translation of UX designs into functional user interfaces.
• Driving understanding of the use cases and needs relating to the organisation’s current products and future capabilities
• Understanding products and strategy, and how they influence customer decisions.

Requirements

• Experience of defining the long-term vision and strategy for user experience research, aligning it with business objectives and goals. Establish design principles, guidelines, and best practices to guide the development of user-centered products and services.
• Experience in leading and managing a team of UX professionals, providing guidance, mentorship, and support. Ensure the team’s collaboration, growth, and adherence to design processes and methodologies.
• Have the ability to oversee user research activities to gain a deep understanding of user needs, behaviours, and motivations. Utilize research findings to inform design decisions and validate design solutions.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders, to ensure alignment and a shared understanding of user experience goals.
• . Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies in the field of UX trends and innovation.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and 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 wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring, you will grow our UX Research and Design function, fostering an environment conducive to creativity and innovation
• Championing and lead user-centred research activities and align them with our business objectives and technological capabilities.
• Conducting comprehensive user research, execute usability tests, and synthesise data to inform insightful, evidence-based design decisions
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders and the product development team to oversee the translation of UX designs into functional user interfaces.
• Driving understanding of the use cases and needs relating to the organisation’s current products and future capabilities
• Understanding products and strategy, and how they influence customer decisions

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and 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 productiv