Sr UX Designer I

📍 Job Overview

Job Title: Sr UX Designer I

Company: RELX

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job Type: Full time

Category: UX/Product Design

Date Posted: 2026-07-28

Experience Level: 7+ Years

Remote Status: Hybrid

🚀 Role Summary

• Lead the end-to-end design of user-centered product experiences across RX’s digital ecosystem, ensuring solutions are intuitive, accessible, and aligned with business goals.

• Drive the design process from user research and concepting through to prototyping and high-fidelity design, leveraging a deep understanding of user needs and business objectives.

• Actively contribute to and leverage RX’s internal design system, applying shared components and patterns while providing feedback for its ongoing improvement.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams to ensure design feasibility, understanding, and effective implementation of shared design patterns.

📝 Enhancement Note: This role is positioned as a Senior UX Designer, implying a need for leadership in design initiatives and the ability to mentor junior team members. The focus on a "digital ecosystem" suggests a broad scope of responsibility across multiple product lines or platforms.

📈 Primary Responsibilities

• Design and iterate high-quality product experiences informed by user research, usability testing, data, and stakeholder feedback to meet clearly defined user and business needs.

• Define and improve information architecture, user flows, interaction patterns, and visual design to deliver intuitive, accessible, and engaging experiences across RX products.

• Engage with users, customers, and internal stakeholders to understand use cases, pain points, behaviors, and opportunities for improvement.

• Apply RX's internal design system in product work, using shared components, patterns, and guidance to support consistency, accessibility, and efficient delivery.

• Provide product-team feedback into shared Figma libraries and design-system guidance, helping identify gaps, improvements, or new pattern needs as they emerge through delivery work.

• Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams to ensure designs are feasible, well-understood, and effectively implemented, supporting the adoption of shared design patterns where appropriate.

• Partner with Product and Engineering to plan appropriate user testing and define success measures, using qualitative and quantitative evidence to evaluate design outcomes.

• Advocate for user-centered design practices across projects, using research insights and customer feedback to inform decisions and influence cross-functional partners.

• Support and mentor designers and cross-functional partners through design reviews, feedback, and knowledge sharing, helping raise the quality and consistency of design outputs.

• Facilitate design workshops, critiques, and collaborative sessions to explore problems, validate solutions, and build shared understanding among stakeholders.

• Stay informed on industry trends, tools, competitor experiences, and best practices in product design, applying relevant insights to improve RX's design practice.

• Ensure design work aligns with established UX principles, design standards, and the wider RX UX strategy, in collaboration with the Head of UX.

📝 Enhancement Note: The responsibilities highlight a hands-on approach to design, emphasizing a full-cycle product design process. The integration with a design system and the expectation to provide feedback on it point towards a need for strategic thinking beyond individual feature design, impacting the broader design practice.

🎓 Skills & Qualifications

Education: Specific educational requirements are not detailed, but a strong portfolio demonstrating craft across complex digital products is paramount.

Experience: 7+ years of experience as a UX or product designer.

Required Skills:

• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in both product design and design system contributions.

• A track record of taking on difficult, ambiguous design problems and driving high-quality solutions through to delivery.

• Experience contributing to or working alongside a design system, with a solid understanding of component thinking, consistency, and accessibility standards.

• Strong knowledge of accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design principles.

• Strong working knowledge of user research, usability testing, and data-driven design, with the ability to synthesize insights across sources and use them to frame problems and influence decisions.

• A genuine interest in AI and emerging design tools, with hands-on experience using them within a design practice and a collaborative approach to sharing what you learn with the team.

• Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools.

• Ability to influence and align stakeholders without direct authority.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Collaborative, proactive, and self-starting mindset with the ability to work across multiple workstreams. Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in agile development environments.

• Exposure to eCommerce or large-scale content platforms is a plus.

📝 Enhancement Note: The emphasis on a "strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in both product design and design system contributions" is critical. Candidates should curate their portfolios to showcase projects where they've driven significant product improvements and actively contributed to or managed design system components. The mention of AI and emerging design tools suggests a forward-thinking approach and a desire for candidates who are early adopters.

📊 Process & Systems Portfolio Requirements

Portfolio Essentials: