UX Designer for AI-Driven Scientific Interfaces

CamWebDir; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

EMBL-EBI is seeking a thoughtful UX Designer to join the Digital Experience team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract. You will help explore emerging technologies and design digital solutions that improve how users discover, access and interact with EMBL-EBI’s information and services.

You will conduct user interviews and usability tests, translate insights into actionable designs, and contribute to design systems and accessible interfaces.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating user research, interaction design, and prototyping.
• Experience planning and conducting usability tests.
• Ability to communicate design decisions clearly with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct user interviews, usability tests, workshops and feedback sessions.
• Turn qualitative and quantitative evidence into clear insights and priorities.
• Create user flows, information architectures, wireframes, prototypes and accessible interface designs.
• Simplify complex workflows and data-rich experiences without losing essential detail.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams throughout discovery and delivery stages.
• Contribute to design systems, reusable patterns and clear UX documentation.
• Champion accessibility, inclusive design and evidence-informed decision-making.
• Use AI and other tools thoughtfully to support exploration, prototyping and iteration.

Skills

UX design

User research

Interaction design

Prototyping

Accessibility

WCAG

Figma

Tools

Figma

Job description

EMBL-EBI is seeking a thoughtful UX Designer to join the Digital Experience team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract. You will help explore emerging technologies and design digital solutions that improve how users discover, access and interact with EMBL-EBI’s information and services.

You will conduct user interviews and usability tests, translate insights into actionable designs, and contribute to design systems and accessible interfaces.