Wolters Kluwer is looking for a user-experience (UX) designer to join our UX Team in the Legal & Regulatory (LR) division.
We're looking for an enthusiastic problem-solver with a strong passion to understand and improve the overall experience of our end-users.
Within a multidisciplinary team of front-end engineers, user-experience designers, user researchers and other professionals you will design and continuously improve our patterns and the end-to-end experience of the product.
Your work will be key in creating useful, usable, and delightful new and existing solutions and patterns.
We are characterized by an entrepreneurial and informal but professional working atmosphere.
You will be working in a dynamic and international organization where your personal development is encouraged and supported.
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Translate ideas into concepts, user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences for LR's portfolio of products
- Conceive intuitive designs that promote usability and optimize the user experience of our products
- Close collaboration with team members and stakeholders
- Work within our lean design process, while efficiently exploring design concepts, iterating and validating design alternatives
- Contribute to the design system (give input to the further development of the design system, initiate development of new components, etc.
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- Be an ambassador of design thinking and a user-centered process
- Help to improve the UX process to raise the UX maturity
- Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas and be absolutely relentless in your pursuit of excellence
Job qualifications
- You have 2-3 years of experience working as a UX designer - ideally within an agile environment
- A Bachelor's degree (BA) from a four-year college or university (or equivalent) in Interaction Design, Product Design, Industrial Design, Human Computer Interaction, Communication & Multimedia Design/Media Technology, Information Architecture or related would be a big plus
- You are familiar with principles of Lean Product and Lean UX
- You are passionate about design and technology trends
- You are both a self-starter and team-oriented, with a willingness to teach and learn
- You are open to feedback and have no issues receiving (constructive) criticism
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential
- You are able to act as a liaison between the UX, product and technology teams to ensure standards of excellence are met and to build a relationship of trust between all parties involved- We expect you have a grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
- You are required to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to development teams, clients and other stakeholders internationally.
Online Portfolio (required)
- Your portfolio should demonstrate a track record of developing simple and elegant user interfaces
- You should be prepared to speak about the processes used to develop your solutions and the specific role that you played in these processes.
Technical Skills
- You have experience working with design systems and are familiar with creating UX patterns
- You master design software such as Figma, Abstract and Adobe Creative Suite
- You know how to work with the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- You have a solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3.
What we offer
- Flexible work hours
- The ability to work from home or from the office with a fully digital workplace
- An enthusiastic multidisciplinary team of UX professionals
- Career growth, learning and development - there is plenty of room for personal development and support from management
- We embrace diversity and we foster inclusion.
Our priority is developing talented people, regardless of their gender, background, or life preferences.
Travel requirements
The position might require some travel post-pandemic, domestic and international, on a regular basis, comprising no more than 20% of total days worked.