UI/UX Specialist

Be part of progress

Introduction to the job

An ASML machine contains thousands of parts. This ‘configuration’ can change during the different stages of the machine’s lifecycle. To keep track of this configuration and the changes, the IT Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) department provides various software solutions. One of them is myChange, which streamlines the submission, approval, and implementation of change requests, ensuring changes are implemented in a controlled and systematic way.

By joining the myChange team, you will be at the forefront of driving innovation and maintaining the flexibility and adaptability of our PLM systems, enabling ASML to respond effectively to evolving business requirements and technological advancements.

Role and responsibilities

Your goal is to understand our user’s needs and requirements and translate them into well-thought-out functional and visual designs. This all to realize significant user experience improvements of our internal business applications, in order to increase user efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction, and adoption. You will conduct user research, design interactions, create mockups, apply and contribute to the ASML design guidelines, and validate prototypes with a global user base.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that consists of, for example, a product owner, a solution architect, a business process analyst, and software developers. You will be defining, embedding, and executing the user-centered design process.

As UX/UI specialist, you’ll:

• Prepare and execute user research methods such as contextual inquiry and task analysis and communicate findings using personas, user journeys, user stories
• Validate prototypes through local, remote, moderated, and unmoderated usability tests and define and track quantitative UX metrics to evaluate design effectiveness
• Collect and analyze information from business, user, and technology perspectives and communicate concepts with clear rationale and persuasive power
• Ensure that your designs are aligned with the functional and technical stakeholders and document requirements, priorities, design choices, and rules
• Define the right user-centered design approach based on the projects or agile team’s goals and status quo (budget, timelines, availability of skills, etc.)
• Embed the approach in the projects or agile team’s way of working and safeguard it and convince stakeholders of the impact of UX design
• Identify and act on improvements in processes, collaboration, and ways of working

Education and experience

To help us tackle the technical challenges we face, you’ll need experience working on high-tech products and with complex processes. As UX/UI specialist, you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in an area such as Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, Psychology, or Engineering and possess over 5 years of professional experience in UX design
• Experience with the design of complex business-to-business or enterprise applications
• Experience with agile/scrum/DevOps
• Experience with moderating participatory design/co-creation/design thinking workshops
• Experience with Miro and Figma
• Experience with Material Design
• Experience with Big Data & Data Visualization

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems. Success in this role requires the following skills:

• Ability to plan work and deliver on agreed goals independently
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other disciplines
• Ability to coach fellow UX designers in their work
• Ability to deal with resistance and convince others of the value of UX
• Ability to balance short- and long-term goals, make compromises, and adapt ways of working
• Ability to work under time pressure and rapidly changing conditions
• Fluent in English, verbal and written. Profound knowledge of Dutch is a plus

Your goal is to realize significant user experience improvements of our business software applications, in order to increase user efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction, and adoption. You will conduct user research, create UI mockups, apply and contribute to the ASML design guidelines, and validate prototypes with users from all over the world. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that consists of, for example, a product owner, a solution architect, a business process analyst, and software developers. You will thus be the lead in defining, embedding, and executing the user-centered design process

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

About Us

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now.

We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.