UX Researcher

Description

Position is Open to Remote Work for Local Candidates Only. Role will require the ability to come into the office on an as needed basis for meetings.

Summary Of This Role

As part of the Global Product Design Organization, the UX Researcher plays a key role in shaping the user experience by driving research to provide user insights that will inform product design and strategy. Researchers collaborate with designers and product stakeholders to understand business and research goals, conduct high quality research, and present findings. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs and behaviors to help create useful, usable, and engaging products and features.

Job Specific Duties And Responsibilities

• Understand and translate business requirements into research
• Create user research test plans and protocols
• Collect and analyze user needs and behaviors via primary and secondary research (i.e. user interviews, surveys, field visits, usability testing, remote testing)
• Share research findings and recommendations to diverse audiences through written reports and oral presentations
• Create personas, user journeys, and flows to better understand our end users and communicate that understanding to our product teams
• Work with designers and product managers to prioritize research findings in a fast-paced environment
• Keep abreast of industry and user experience trends, and best practices and promote research within the team
  
  

Job Specific Skills And Competencies

• Plan, design and conduct research sessions of all types.
• Create personas
• Partner with the team to find insights from research and communicate them to stakeholders.
• Take insights, make sense of what was learned and guide the team with a clear direction forward.
• Strong ability to empathize with customers
• Strong understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during the product life cycle
• Knowledgeable and have a deep understanding of the user-centered design process
• Excellent visual, written, and oral communication and presentation skills
• Self-starter who takes initiative
• A strong eye for detail, initiative and committed to delivering high quality work independently or as part of a team
  
  

Typical Day in the Life of the Role

Work with Product Owners, Product Managers, technology partners, and 3rd parties on the user experience research for strategic direction of digital products and services

What Part Will You Play?

• Determines appropriate research method needed which could include usability testing, highly complex audience and task analysis, development of personas, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthroughs, field observations, interviews, card sorting and focus groups. Oversees and performs the research and analysis of the results and creates actionable and detailed recommendations based on the user research to ensure users needs have been identified and communicated to project team.
  
  

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Factors, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field or practical experience
• Typically Minimum 0-2+ Years Relevant Exp
• Experience with research design utilizing various methods, such as foundational research, user testing, contextual inquiries, journey maps, surveys, and other usability studies
• Experience with remote research tools (i.e. Optimal Workshop, UserZoomGo)
• Must have excellent time management skills: be able to handle multiple projects at one time and prioritize needs and projects
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Psychology, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction, Product Design, Graphic/Visual Design, Human Factors, Library Science, English, Information Technology or related field
• Typically Minimum 2-4 Years Relevant Exp
• Researching and designing user experience solutions independently within the Financial Industry
• CXA
• UX and Design Thinking certifications - NNgroup or HFI