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UX Designer (Initial 6 month contract)
Waters Corporation • United States of America 🇺🇸
The UX Designer/Researcher will define and shape the user experience of software for analytical lab instrumentation. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating wireframes and prototypes, and designing intuitive interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Create and iterate on user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes following best practices and leveraging design systems
- Produce responsive UI designs across different platforms, including browser-based and mobile contexts
- Prepare engineering-ready deliverables (component specs, Figma designs, annotations) and collaborate with developers to maintain design fidelity
- Participate in collaborative design reviews with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals and technical feasibility
- Extend and maintain the design system, ensuring consistency across products
- Identify customer unmet needs and improvement opportunities through user and stakeholder engagement and research
- Plan and execute usability studies on prototypes and live software to identify issues and validate design decisions
- Develop test protocols and scripts, define success metrics, and synthesize findings into actionable recommendations
- Partner with Product and Engineering to prioritize usability issues and track improvements over time
- Analyze product analytics and user behavior data to inform iterative design improvements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Design (Graphic, Interaction, HCI, Product design) or related field
- 5+ years in UX design for digital products across multiple platforms (desktop, mobile, touchscreen)
- Portfolio demonstrating design work from concept to shipped product, including usability testing insights
- Proficiency in Figma (or similar) for wireframing, prototyping, and design systems
- Experience conducting usability testing and applying findings to improve designs
- Strong communication skills to articulate design rationale and influence stakeholders
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript capabilities and constraints
- Experience with complex system design (web-based applications for data analysis; scientific domain a plus)
- Familiarity with analytics tools and defining user-centered KPIs
- Experience building or extending design systems
- Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG)
About Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our products ensure the safety of the medicines we take, the purity of the food we eat and the water we drink, and the quality and durability of products we use every day. Together with our customers, in labs around the world, we deliver scientific insights to improve human health and well-being, helping to leave the world better than we found it.
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