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Senior UX Designer

Elsevier 🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Full-time Senior

Lead UX activities for Japan initiatives, including discovery, problem framing, research, UI design, usability testing, and implementation support. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to create implementation-ready product experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead UX activities for Japan initiatives, including discovery, problem framing, research, UI design, usability testing, and implementation support
  • Conduct UX research and validation suited to the Japan context, such as exploratory research, user interviews, concept validation, and usability testing
  • Synthesize user needs in Japan, business context, and product constraints into clear insights and recommendations
  • Use problem-framing and prioritization methods, including Jobs-to-be-done, to clarify user needs, identify high-value problems, and guide product/design decisions
  • Partner with the PdM, Engineering, and business stakeholders to shape solutions and align on trade-offs
  • Create implementation-ready artifacts, including user flows, prototypes, interaction specifications, design patterns, and UI designs

Requirements

  • End-to-end UX experience across discovery, problem framing, research, interaction design, UI design, prototyping, usability testing, and implementation support
  • Ability to work independently as the primary UX designer for Japan while collaborating with distributed teams
  • Ability to use Jobs-to-be-done and other problem-framing methods to connect user needs, business priorities, and product opportunities
  • Understanding of front-end development, product architecture, accessibility requirements, and technical constraints
  • Proficiency with Figma
  • Fluent Japanese proficiency for user research, stakeholder communication, and UI/content review
  • Business English proficiency for APAC and global collaboration

Benefits

  • Healthy work/life balance
  • Numerous wellbeing initiatives
  • Shared parental leave
  • Study assistance
  • Sabbaticals
  • Flexible working hours

Key Skills

UX Design Research Validation Figma Prototyping Usability Testing Interaction Design UI Design Jobs-to-be-done Problem-Framing Front-end Development Product Architecture Accessibility Requirements Technical Constraints Japanese English Communication Collaboration Design Systems Reusable UI Patterns Analytics Customer Feedback Data Analysis

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