Product Designer and UX Researcher

We are seeking a creative UX Designer to join our team and enhance the usability, engagement, and interface of our university’s institutional repository. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how students, researchers, and staff interact with a core service for TU Delft.

Job description

The successful candidate will lead the design and development of intuitive, accessible, and visually engaging user experiences that support the discovery, submission, and management of scholarly content - such as doctoral theses, research articles and conference proceedings. You will collaborate closely with both library staff and users throughout the university to understand needs, identify pain points, and translate insights into elegant design solutions.

Key responsibilities include conducting user research and usability testing, creating wireframes and prototypes, and developing design systems that align with the current look and feel of the repository. You will also participate in decision-making about the product design of the repository and help with the prioritisation of features.

You will be part of the Research Infrastructure team, reporting to the Coordinator of the team. Your day-to-day work will also be with the developers and repository manager in the team. You will also work with other library staff in other teams - in particular with teams who manage educational and heritage content. You will also help other digital services in the library on an occasional basis.

We are looking for someone with a strong portfolio demonstrating experience in UX design, preferably with experience in academic, cultural, or public sector environments. This role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on scholarly communication. If you are passionate about designing inclusive digital experiences and enjoy working in collaborative, mission-driven environments, we’d love to hear from you.

Job requirements

Required

• Minimum of a Masters degree, ideally with the relevant skills
• Ability to conduct user research, including interviews, surveys, and usability testing, to gather insights and inform design decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define user personas, user journeys, and wireframes that align with the projects’ goals and user needs.
• Design Minimal Marketable Feature (MMF), design user workflows with story maps, perform A/B testing, setup and review user surveys, and evaluate user analytics
• Create high-fidelity prototypes and design mock-ups
• Iterate on designs based on feedback from stakeholders and usability testing results.
• Refine and prioritize user stories for multiple user groups
• Support change management by helping stakeholders at the Library understand how interface and workflow changes affect users.

Nice to have

• Familiar with Lean UX principles in Agile, and Scrum
• Conducting accessibility audits for WCAG compliance.
• Understanding of university and library services, particularly how researchers interact with online services
• Advocate for user-centred design principles and best practices within the organization
• Understanding of how emerging technologies (e.g., AI-driven search) can influence user behaviour
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken - and willingness to learn Dutch if not a Dutch speaker
• Can start working at TU Delft in January 2026 

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context. 

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

University Corporate Office – TU Delft Library 

TU Delft Library is the largest technical-scientific library in the Netherlands, a physical and virtual meeting place. The Library helps to find valuable knowledge needed for education and research, and to publish and store the knowledge generated at TU Delft. We believe it is important that knowledge is easily accessible and freely available to everyone. In this way, knowledge can flow freely and TU Delft's knowledge can become valuable to others. The Library is also a place where everyone can study in peace and quiet. This fits in with our inclusive organisation. The Library has chosen three strategic themes to guide its daily activities. 1) Open Science. We make an important contribution to TU Delft's broad strategic programme "Open Science - Research and Education in the Open Era". 2) Visibility and impact. With our expertise and tools in the field of research data management, research intelligence and publishing, we increase the findability, visibility and impact of TU Delft knowledge. 3) Inspiring learning and working environment. Through stimulating programming, we show how freely available and reliable knowledge makes life richer. This makes the Library a place where you can find new ideas and insights.  

Conditions of employment 

• Duration of contract is until the end of 2026. Temporary
• A job of 32-40 hours per week. 
• A salary based on Scale 10 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €3546 - €5538 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.  
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP. 
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year. 
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages. 
• Flexible working week. 
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget. 
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses. 
• Partially paid parental leave 
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program. 

Additional information

For more information about this vacancy, please contact Naomi Wahls van Gils N.L.Wahls@tudelft.nl

Application procedure

Are you interested in this vacancy? Please apply no later than 19 November 2025 via the application button and upload the following documents:

• CV
• Motivational letter
  
  

You can address your application to Naomi Wahls van Gils.


Please note:

• You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post. 
• As part of knowledge security, TU Delft conducts a risk assessment during the recruitment of personnel. We do this, among other things, to prevent the unwanted transfer of sensitive knowledge and technology. The assessment is based on information provided by the candidates themselves, such as their motivation letter and CV, and takes place at the final stages of the selection process. When the outcome of the assessment is negative, the candidate will be informed. The processing of personal data in the context of the risk assessment is carried out on the legal basis of the GDPR: performing a public task in the public interest. You can find more information about this assessment on our website about knowledge security.
• Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.