UX Designer

Job Title: UX Designer

Location: Pune

About Springer Nature Group

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

About Us

Data & Analytics Solutions (DAS) - is the databases and shared services division of Springer Nature used by researchers, scientists and students around the globe. The global community spans Beijing, Berlin, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, New York, Pune and more. We work in collaborative, multi-disciplinary delivery teams, developing digital products and services that aim to exceed user expectations and anticipate their needs.

The work is interesting and meaningful. Our culture is collaborative and friendly. We encourage and support growth, both personal and professional.

This is a terrific opportunity for friendly, inquisitive people who want to get involved in our work, who love to learn, who will embrace and develop our culture, and help make DAS a place where people and ideas can thrive.

We are intentionally looking to create teams that are diverse and inclusive. Diversity is the mix of culture, background, experience and personality that we all bring; inclusion is getting the mix to work better together. We want every member of our teams to contribute to our common goals while respecting each other's skills, knowledge and needs.

About the Role

We're looking for a user experience designer to join our Experiments team, helping us shape innovative tools and services for the life sciences research community.

Experiments is Springer Nature’s platform dedicated to improving the way researchers discover and design laboratory protocols. By connecting researchers with reproducible, trustworthy experimental methods, Experiments empowers scientists to plan, execute, and build upon experiments more effectively accelerating progress in biomedical and life sciences research.

Join us in enhancing the researcher experience and making experimental science more open, collaborative, and efficient.

The job is based in our Pune hub, with team members also in London (UK), Heidelberg and Berlin (Germany), Beijing (China) and New York (USA). We offer hybrid working - from the office 3 days per week. You'll be part of our bigger community of UX practitioners and DAS community located in the various global locations listed above.

Responsibilities:

Supported by the UX Lead, UX Researcher and UI Designer, you will:

• Recognize and articulate end-user problems, pain points, challenges and opportunities within the materials science domain.

• Facilitate the creation of well thought through, low-fidelity diagrams that explore ideas and solutions across user flows and customer journeys.

• Develop concepts from wireframes through to mid-fidelity mockups as well as interactive prototypes and present solutions to the team while taking on feedback and iteration based on insights.

• Organize, plan, and conduct research activities.

• Create a culture of sharing findings within the project, programme, and design teams.

What you'll be doing

You will be a champion for the customer, creating experiences that align with Materials Solutions vision and deliver user-centered design solutions.

Within 3 months

Get settled:

• Learn about the Springer Nature group, our DAS group and the various domains.

• Understand the Materials domain, meet stakeholders and grasp the background and context of various projects.

• Begin to work with the DAS UX Lead and get to know your design peers/community.

• Research - Familiarise yourself with what has been done till date, gathering the context and history of it.

• Design - Familiarise yourself with the existing process and make contributions where possible.

Within 6 months

Be involved:

• Research - Begin to work with the UX Researcher, to plan and conduct continuous discovery.

• Design - Delivery, prioritization, reviews and critique.

• Collaborating regularly with the UX Lead, UX Researcher, UI Designer, members of the Materials Solutions team, design peers and wider community.

• Take the lead on UX Design within your team, provide design direction.

• Actively participate in the UX community.

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