Are you passionate about uncovering user needs and turning insights into meaningful product experiences?
Do you enjoy leading research initiatives, influencing strategy, and helping teams create user-centred solutions that make a real impact?
About the Role
In this role, you’ll lead our understanding of user behaviours, needs, and motivations, setting the direction for UX Research across a business or product line. You’ll bring expertise in a wide range of research and testing methods, and your insights will directly influence strategy and design decisions. Along the way, you’ll also play a supportive role in mentoring fellow researchers, helping the team grow stronger together.
Responsibilities
- Focuses on customer and user needs by understanding use cases, integrating UX feedback into design, aligning teams to meet expectations, sharing insights, and analysing market segments and competitors.
- Applies creative problem solving by thoroughly analysing briefs, exploring multiple perspectives, collaborating with stakeholders and designers, and using research insights and reflection to guide and test solutions.
- Leads user-centred product design by applying diverse UX research techniques, mentoring junior team members, producing research documentation, and collaborating with UX and visual designers to shape both structure and visual identity.
- Uses data-driven analysis and testing to inform strategy by regularly testing with users, establishing key metrics, iterating research methods, summarising insights, and identifying data gaps to improve decision-making.
- Demonstrates strong technical research skills by expertly using relevant tools and software across varied contexts, mentoring junior researchers, and collaborating effectively with tech teams.
- Practices self-development by taking ownership of growth, engaging in regular feedback, aligning with business needs, learning from experience, and leveraging networks to build challenges into current work.
- Effectively solves problems by gathering facts from multiple sources, analysing issues thoroughly, and independently managing day-to-day challenges.
- Encourages collaboration and teamwork by fostering open communication, resolving conflicts, removing performance barriers, and promoting cross-team cooperation.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of UX research best practices and tools.
- Design and oversee user research initiatives, leveraging methods such as ethnographic studies, usability testing, and analytics.
- Build strong relationships across teams and functions, fostering collaboration in research and design efforts.
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 Pattern
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.
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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Skills Required
- Deep understanding of UX research best practices and tools
- Experience designing and overseeing user research initiatives
- Experience with ethnographic studies, usability testing, and analytics
- Ability to build strong relationships across teams and functions
- Ability to foster collaboration in research and design efforts
Elsevier Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests paid time off spans vacation, holidays, sick days, bereavement, military leave, and volunteer time. Family-related leave options are also emphasized as part of the package.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical, dental, vision, life insurance, wellness initiatives, and an EAP form a comprehensive health offering. Gym support and wellbeing hubs reinforce an ongoing health and wellness focus.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests retirement programs include a 401(k)/retirement plan and pension options, with long-term savings vehicles such as an employee stock purchase plan also available. These elements contribute to a sense of financial security beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, and deliver better care. Because informed decisions lead to better outcomes, Elsevier is a leader in information and analytics for customers across the global research and health ecosystems. Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.
