Job Description

Do you enjoy turning user insights into simple, effective solutions for complex workflows?

Do you thrive in environments where you can influence design decisions and see your work delivered to real users?

About our Team:

Elsevier Health applies innovation, facilitates insights, and helps drive more informed decision-making for our customers across global health. We support health providers by providing accessible, trusted evidence-based information; prepare more medical and nursing students with effective tools and resources; provide insights that help clinicians improve patient outcomes; and supports a more personalized and localized healthcare experience. All for the benefit of every patient.

About the Role:

This role is for a designer who is skilled in both discovery and delivery. We are seeking someone who can balance research and execution—understanding complex workflows, asking thoughtful questions, identifying and framing user needs, designing clear solutions, and collaborating closely with product and engineering partners to deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• We’re looking for a designer who can move between problem framing and product execution

• Understand complex user journeys and translate them into clear, intuitive flows.

• Conduct user research, review analytics, and support UX insights while incorporating stakeholder perspectives.

• Design practical, accessible, high-quality product experiences using Figma or similar tools.

• Communicate design decisions using evidence and insights.

• Account for edge cases, permissions, loading states, errors, and other important details.

• Use and contribute to shared design system patterns.

• Provide clear and effective handoffs to engineering teams.

• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, align stakeholders with differing perspectives, support engineering handoffs, mentor peers, and thoughtfully explore new tools and technologies.

Requirements:

• We value designers who are curious, thoughtful, collaborative, and hands-on—individuals who can zoom out to understand broader systems and zoom in to improve specific details that impact user experience.

• 4–8 years of experience in UX, product design, interaction design, or a related field.

• A strong portfolio demonstrating experience designing complex products or workflows, informed by user insights.

• Experience working with agile or iterative product teams.

• Skills in interaction design, accessibility, and collaborating with engineering teams.

• Experience conducting user research or discovery activities.

• Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise tools, education, healthcare, editorial workflows, publishing, or similar environments.

• A degree in UX, HCI, design, psychology, communication, computer science, or a related field is welcome; equivalent experience is equally valued.

Work in a way that works for you:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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.

This is a hybrid role. Our teams operate in a flexible hybrid work model, combining in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. You’ll be expected to participate in regular team meetings and engineering rituals in line with your team’s cadence.

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:

- Private Medical/Dental Plan

- Savings Fund

- Life Insurance

- Meal/Grocery Voucher

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. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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