UX Designer

Metrohm Autolab; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

25 days paid vacation

Team building activities

Job summary

Metrohm Autolab in Utrecht, The Netherlands, seeks a UX Designer to shape our scientific software and instruments. You will drive our Design System evolution in Figma, aligning with the global Metrohm UX team and collaborating with cross-functional Scrum teams.

You will translate feature ideas into validated UX/UI designs, analyze user data, and support product management and development with usability insights in an international setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field and strong analytical skills.
• 4+ years of UX design experience with Design Systems in Figma.
• Able to work in an international, interdisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

• Elaborate on our Design System in Figma for consistent UX across software.
• Align with the global Metrohm UX team and local design perspective.
• Translate ideas for new features into validated UX/UI designs for Scrum teams.
• Analyze information to determine optimal user solutions and validate UX in usability tests.
• Support Product Management and development teams with UX questions and usability testing.
• Coordinate UX across hardware and software with colleagues from Hardware.

Skills

UX design

Design systems

Figma

English (US)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Figma

Job description

Metrohm Autolab (Utrecht, The Netherlands), a fully owned subsidiary of Metrohm Group, is a leading supplier of analytical and scientific instrumentation for electrochemistry in laboratories worldwide.

Due to the growing focus on UX within the Group, we are looking for a UX Designer (32 - 40 hours per week)

With the ambition to enthusiastically contribute to the design and development of our scientific research software and instruments.

Your assignment:

• You elaborate on our Design System in Figma, so our existing software UX/UI designs are gradually evolving in a consistent way.
• You seek alignment with our global Metrohm UX team, contributing our local design perspective.
• You translate ideas for new features into validated UX/UI designs for our Scrum teams, in close collaboration with your direct colleagues and internal stakeholders.
• You analyze and organize information to determine the optimal solution for our users (domain and user research) and validate our software's UX in usability tests.
• You support Product Management and development teams with UX questions, and by regularly testing the software from a user's point of view.
• Together with your colleagues from Hardware, you align UX across both hardware and software.

Your profile:

• You have a bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field of study, strong analytical skills, and you are motivated to dive into the domain of electrochemistry research.
• You have 4+ years of experience in UX design and working with Design Systems in Figma, preferably within the context of technical applications for measurement and control.
• You are a structured worker, committed to getting things done in a consistent manner.
• You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing, but you also know when to put your own ideas aside for the consensus of the team or the benefit of the company.
• You organize your own work, making sure your designs are complete and validated in time.
• You can easily navigate between a holistic overview level and clarifying all necessary details.
• You know how to clearly express yourself in English (US), while always deliberately using defined domain language in a consistent manner.
• You enjoy working in an international and interdisciplinary environment with short communication lines and a great deal of personal responsibility and room for initiative.
• Work in a dynamic and international team in a medium-sized company, located Utrecht, one of the liveliest places of Europe.
• A good position in a stable company with the possibility to learn and grow, using innovative technologies.

• Competitive salary, including a premium company pension scheme.
• A healthy work/life balance.
• 25 days of paid vacation.
• Team building activities.

About Metrohm:

Metrohm Group (www.metrohm.com) is one of the world’s most trusted manufacturers of high-precision instruments for chemical analysis. The market segments we serve include chemical, petrochemicals & biofuel, polymers & plastics, pharmaceutical, energy & power, surface finishing, environmental, food & beverage, and cover both industrial and academic customers. Today, we are a company of 3000+ employees present in more than 80 countries with our own subsidiaries and exclusive distributor network.

Metrohm Autolab is a globally operating subsidiary of Metrohm Group providing instrumentation for R&D laboratories in electrochemical analysis and research. Our market application segments include energy generation and storage, corrosion prevention, biosensors, fundamental research, plating, environmental and trace analysis.

Our premises are in Utrecht, The Netherlands, with about 60 employees responsible for development, production, marketing and sales of the Autolab portfolio world-wide.