UX/UI Designer (FAP-BC-DZN-2025-198-GRAE)

Job Description

Your Responsibilities:

The Business Computing (FAP-BC) group, within the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is responsible for developing and maintaining a wide range of support applications essential for the operations of the organization. We are currently seeking a UX/UI Designer to contribute to enhancing the usability of our diverse portfolio of applications.

In This Position, You Will:

• Design wireframes, prototypes, and user interfaces for web-based and mobile applications.
• Implement user-centered design principles to create intuitive and visually appealing interfaces.
• Develop and maintain UI design patterns and style guides to ensure consistency across applications.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to iterate and improve designs.
• Work closely with developers to implement designs and ensure design integrity throughout the development process.
• Maintain, coordinate, and contribute to the CERN Design System to ensure coherence and reusability across the application landscape.

Your Profile:

Skills:

• UX/UI Design and Design Systems: Ability to design intuitive and visually appealing interfaces for web and mobile applications, with strong proficiency in design tools (especially Figma) and in creating, maintaining, and contributing to design systems to ensure consistency and reusability across applications.
• Understanding of User-Centered Design Principles: Knowledge of fundamental principles of user-centered design and iterative design methodology to address user needs and expectations.
• User Research: Ability to conduct user research, gather relevant data on user needs and behaviors, and utilize this information to inform design decisions.
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams and to present and justify designs.
• User Testing and Feedback: Ability to conduct usability testing and gather feedback to assess and improve designs iteratively.
• Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the basics of the other language.

Eligibility Criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Design, Graphic design (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Additional Information

• Job closing date: 23.10.2025 at 23:59 CEST.
• Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
• Working hours: 40 hours per week
• Target start date: 01-February-2026
• Job reference: FAP-BC-DZN-2025-198-GRAE
• Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

What We Offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5196 and 5716 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About Us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.