Senior UX Designer

We’re seeking a Senior User Experience Designer to join our product team, developers and designers in building our Data Science Platform. This role requires leadership in user research, experience design, usability and interaction design. The Sr UX Designer will work closely with Product and Development teams based in Paris to understand business requirements, gather the best possible research, and create and promote standard and good practices for crafting our platform and features for our users. You’ll inspire change at all stages of product development by delivering compelling, written, in-person and visual presentations on your findings.

You will play a key role in shaping Dataiku’s data-driven interfaces, with a strong focus on data visualization, exploration, and actionable insights. You will help shape user experiences for charts, dashboards and slide-based narratives, ensuring that business users can build, explore, and communicate insights with clarity. You will also contribute to the development of user-centric workspaces that empower teams to organize, consume, and collaborate around data effectively.

The Dataiku Data Science Platform ambition is to be the most ergonomic Data Science platform that address from citizen data science needs to full custom advanced analytics. At Dataiku, you will work with a unique team of Data Scientists, Developers, UX Designers, UX researchers and Product Managers. As part of this group, you will have the chance to view the full scope of what it takes to create a Professional Software that is both friendly and powerful.

Responsibilities

• Design, run and analyze concept validation studies with a sample of users
• Research consumer behaviors and expectations
• Prepare and deliver compelling presentations of findings and recommendations for improvements to stakeholders at all levels
• Translate UX recommendations and data-driven decisions for feature/function concepts into visual designs such as wireframes and prototypes
• Create and test wireframes, user flows, low-fidelity prototypes
• Negotiate requirements and designs with product managers, designers, and developers
• Build and maintain style guides, and support teams during the development cycle.
• Participate to the definition of our in-house design language to provide a unified set of UX and design rules
• Research and stay current with trends in UX design.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Proficiency in design-related software (e.g., Figma, Miro, Sketch, Axure, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, etc).
• At least 10 years of relevant UX design experience.
• Ability to communicate decision points and metrics in an articulate, actionable manner for technical and non-technical individuals at all levels.
• Thorough understanding of design approaches, technologies, and tools (including journey maps, wireframes/click-throughs, dynamic prototypes, user flows, etc.)
• Knowledge of the technology behind web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.).
• Portfolio featuring examples of interaction/service/innovation by design work.

Preferred qualifications:

• MS or PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Statistics or a related field with 10 years of relevant work experience
• Experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices.
• Experience with Professional Software development environments

Ideal qualifications (at least one ):

• Experience in designing meaningful and scalable charting experiences
• Experience in creating intuitive interactions for data consumption
• Experience in designing conversational interfaces