JavaScript Job: UI-UX Team Lead

We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who we are

Frontiers is an award-winning open science platform and leading open access scholarly publisher.

We are one of the largest and most cited publishers globally. To date, our 200,000 freely available research articles have received more than 1 billion views and downloads and 2 million citations. Our journals span science, health, humanities and social sciences, engineering, and sustainability. And we continue to expand into new academic disciplines so more researchers can publish open access.

Be part of the publishing revolution and help us transform the way research is published, evaluated, and communicated to the world.

Description

We are looking for a UI/UX team leader for a new team who helps at the head of our Frontend Engineering team, evolving and maintaining the existing components library and the UI prototypes for all our applications. At the beginning, you will be part of the existing team until we have enough people to split the team in two and the transferred of knowledge is done.

This is a hands-on position; a good part of your day will go solving User Stories with your teammates, helping them with the technical tasks. But as the head of the team your managerial skills are just as essential: you must be proactive, inspiring and persuasive, and a true leader at the forefront of your projects. You must also care about your people, lead them and promote their professional growth.

And what about us? Well, I invite you to check Frontiers as a company, our mission, and how we envision the society and the world. It's so important to feel comfortable working in a company you can be proud of! By working with us you will play a key role in shaping the future of science and academic publishing, and the way it affects the people, the planet and the evolution of our society. If this resonates with you, please check the job description below, maybe you are the person that can help us!

What you do

• Lead and evolve the new UI/UX team.
• Apply market best practices in UI/UX practices.
• Coordinate the work of your team with the Product Owners and the Designers.
• Understand and evaluate risk factors as they relate to changing requirements.
• Develop well-crafted components that plug into our user interfaces.
• Develop full UI prototypes that our SW Development teams will use to implement the front end of their applications.
• Contribute to overall software quality by writing elegant and testable UI Vue components.
• Optimize Typescript, HTML & CSS code for the best looking & performant experience.
• Provide support to development teams to facilitate the integration of the UI prototypes in their applications.
• Participate in the documentation of the UI / UX components and prototypes.
• Participate in the QA process along with the other team members.
• Collaborate with Designers and UX experts to bring concepts and ideas to life.
• Participate in your team's Scrum process.
• Initiate and participate in technical discussions with Team Leads, Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
• Pair program and discuss solutions with your peers to share knowledge.

How you do it

• You coach and mentor your UI/UX colleagues taking special care of their professional development.
• You build a solid trust relationship with your teammates and counterparts
• You stay up to date with new UI/UX technologies and best practices.
• You maintain a strong working relationship through detail-oriented and effective communication.
• You contribute to the overall software quality by ensuring SOLID and testable code.

Team

In your team you will lead between 3 and 5 fellow Frontend SW Engineers. Currently the team uses Kanban to manage its User Stories, coming from the different Product Owners. Once the UI prototypes are ready, they are served to the relevant agile team in charge of the application.

What we are looking for

• Minimum of 4 years in a similar role, leading a UI/UX team.
• Prior hands-on experience as a Frontend SW Engineer.
• Strong knowledge of current UI/UX practice, tools, and techniques
• Natural leader, proactive. We don't need to push you for doing things, you take the initiative and lead the way ahead.
• You are proficient with HTML, CSS with Sass, Typescript and JavaScript.
• Experience with front-end technologies such as Node, Vue 2 and Web Components.
• Knowledgeable in Git repositories.
• You are curious and love to learn and try out new things.
• You are not afraid to fail fast and learn from mistakes.
• You are willing to Travel to the Frontiers' headquarters in Switzerland occasionally.
• You have good English skills.
• Additional knowledge (not mandatory, but nice to have)

Design and/or UX experience
Vue 3
QA experience
DevOps

Benefits

With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:

100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination – including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Remote