Senior UX Researcher Job Description
Senior UX researcher
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Senior UX Researcher Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Collaborate with the UX Designers for Web, Back Office, Mobile, and Innovations, Product Owners and Marketing Research on a daily basis
Plan and lead research initiatives to gather end-user requirements
Define and refine UX research processes and influence higher levels in the company to promote the value of UX Research
Provide thought leadership in planning and leveraging research to inform initial product decisions long-term roadmaps
Responsibly and effectively advocate for the customer in a corporate environment
You know how to distill research into actionable insights and opportunities that create value for our customers and guidance for our team
Develop end-to-end usability and development testing for products, concepts, in-progress designs, explorations
You will be the interface to our customers and the customers voice in our organization
You will facilitate and advocate a human centered design and product development process working closely with the product owner, designers, developers, and business
You will set the standards for user experience research and testing with a wide variety of methods
Senior UX Researcher Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior UX Researcher
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: UXMC
Education for Senior UX Researcher
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior UX researcher job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Anthropology, Sociology, Computer, Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Computer Science, Graduate
Skills for Senior UX Researcher
Desired skills for senior UX researcher include:
Cognition
Perception
Usability evaluation techniques
User interface design
Experimental design
Statistics and experimental design
Task analysis
Tech stack of the organisation
Experimental design and statistics
Focus groups
Desired experience for senior UX researcher includes:
Familiarity with prototyping tools such as InVision, Principle and Axure is a bonus
5-7 years’ experience as UX/user researcher, primarily in qualitative product research and evaluative methodologies
You will create hypothesis with tangible assets such as user flows, mockups and wireframes that inform our product strategy
Minimum of 5+ years relevant industry experience designing and researching for digital products that balance user needs, business objectives and technological constraints
High motivation for a holistic and human centered approach, from research and insight generation to concept deliverables
A humble personality when conducting research interviews and sessions, usability testing, A/B testing
Senior UX Researcher Examples
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Senior UX Researcher Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior UX researcher. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior UX researcher
- Translate research findings into clear insights to create personas, map user journeys, and document user behavior and attitudes
- Present and evangelize research insights throughout the organization and during the entire product development lifecycle
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative user data to generate tactical and strategic insights, actionable recommendations
- Coordinate and conduct hypothesis-based A/B testing
- A natural born leader who is organized, self-directive, efficient
- Collaborate with Human Factors, Interaction and UX Designers Industrial and Graphic Designers and Researchers in a world-class Experience Design organization
- Partner with senior leadership UX designers to identify and prioritize research questions based on analysis of current knowledge, project goals, and risks
- Helping corporate partners and product owners define a compelling product vision based on data collected via market research, customer interviews and user surveys
- Collaborating with product development teams and CXD architects and designers to develop methodologies that test competing design options, validate and refine those options through iterative usability feedback, and ensure high levels of user satisfaction and acceptance through customer validation and benchmarking efforts
- Identifying key user research questions and objectives in partnership with product, design, and engineering teams, and working collaboratively to influence the timing for collecting, delivering and refining user-driven insights and improvements
Qualifications for senior UX researcher
- Keen interest to experiment and self-driven while also being collaborative in cross functional teams
- Fluent command of English and German language (both verbal and written)
- IoT and wearable experience or passion is a plus
- Knows how to balance a team and spark motivation
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Cognitive or Experimental Psychology, or Information Science
- Graduate degree in Human Factors, Experimental Psychology, UX Design, Research Methods or related discipline
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Our company is hiring for a senior UX researcher. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior UX researcher
- Collaborating on the growth and maintenance of our proprietary customer research panel and engagement with non-proprietary user research and testing communities
- Create customer journey maps based on feedback from the customer, business and technology groups
- Document personas based on attitudes and behaviors of our target market
- Collect, analyze and summarize customer feedback from blogs, app stores, product feedback links and customer support reps
- Perform competitive analysis and analyze the competition
- Create recommended MVP direction for products based on user needs and insights
- Create and analyze quantitative surveys data
- Develop the foundation for the lean user research program
- Facilitate or help to conduct Discovery workshops
- Documenting, visualizing and communicating user research findings in a clear and actionable manner to project stakeholders in the product, UX and technology teams
Qualifications for senior UX researcher
- Knowledge and experience of Agile software development process
- 6+ years of experience successfully planning and executing user research in accordance with a phased development process
- Fundamental understanding of basic descriptive statistics
- Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
- Ability to understand and synthesize user needs through diverse methods such as contextual inquiry, persona development or participatory design
- BA/BS or MA/MS degree preferred in human-computer interaction, human factors, psychology or related field
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Our company is looking for a senior UX researcher. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior UX researcher
- You will package insights into design tools and assets for product managers and designers to use (personas, design principles, experience maps, scenarios, , as appropriate)
- Use the latest research practices, tools, and techniques and recommend new ones
- Distill customer data into insights that shape the direction of our products
- Design, plan, and conduct research with our business strategy in mind
- Juggle multiple high-profile projects
- Passionately articulate and advocate for the ideal customer experience
- Define, measure, and benchmark criteria for your team’s success
- Work with cross-functional teams in an agile, experiment-driven environment
- Help guide projects from the simple to complex, and the vague to well defined
- Drive product decisions through in-depth customer, market, and design insights
Qualifications for senior UX researcher
- Ability to present research data simply and clearly
- Familiarity with and experience working within agile development methodology a plus
- Represent customer needs through discovery, business process flows, customer journey mapping, persona development, requirements gathering
- 5+ years of UX Research and Testing experience in the application of empirically-based insights to design recommendations in client-side or agency-side settings
- Portfolio containing work samples representing complex system research and user testing outcomes for web, desktop and mobile experiences
- Bachelor's Degree required in HCI, UX or Usability testing
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior UX researcher. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior UX researcher
- Work with the Lead Researcher to develop a research strategy and roadmap to support the product development process
- Assist product managers and UX designers with user research preparation and facilitation activities
- Synthesize research data into actionable design opportunities and strategic recommendations to support project objectives and business goals, including writing reports and delivering presentations
- Plan and conduct practical and impactful research throughout the entire product cycle, including usability sessions, field research, user interviews, and other qualitative methods
- Lead and facilitate collaborative stakeholder workshops to identify opportunities based on research insights
- Organize and maintain an archive of research activities, results, and insights that can easily be shared with product stakeholders and the user experience team
- Cultivate user empathy by translating research into compelling stories of how users of our solutions think, feel and behave
- Collaborating with UX team to ensure alignment to research strategy and cross-train UX designers on research best practices
- Be an evangelist for user research
- Work closely with product and development teams to identify research topics
Qualifications for senior UX researcher
- 5-10 years' experience as a UX Researcher / Usability Field
- Passionate about mobile products and technology
- Ability to rapidly perform usability tests to get feedback to the design and product teams
- At least 5 years experience conducting qualitative research
- A BS or MS degree with an emphasis in HCI, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related discipline
- Minimum 4-6 years of UX research experience in the web, mobile and/or software industry
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Senior UX Researcher Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior UX researcher. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior UX researcher
- Conduct heuristic evaluations of products, services and processes
- Collaborate closely with UX Designers, Product Managers and other researchers
- Partner with engineers, analysts, and other R&D roles to create and share research
- Conduct rigorous methodologically sound research and identify the most appropriate user research method to meet the demands of a particular project
- Agree the objectives and key results of the tests with the stakeholder and work with them to define the stories to be tested and the prototypes required
- Ensure all results are captured and aggregated in an accurate and consistent manner in accordance with the test objectives and key results
- Communicate results to the necessary level of detail to the stockholder and provide retrospective conclusions to business teams
- Apply appropriate strategic and tactical UX research methods to uncover insights (including, but not limited to in-depth interviews, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, card sorting, cognitive walkthroughs, concept testing, and competitive analysis)
- Communicate research findings and insights to product teams and leadership in clear, concise and compelling ways (through reports, presentations, casual conversations, cross-functional team meetings, internal newsletters, emails)
- Consign consumer research & analysis to define market & customer needs, new product opportunities and
Qualifications for senior UX researcher
- Bachelors Degree in Human Centered Design, Social Science, Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Anthropology, Information Science, or related field
- At least seven years of industry experience as a hands-on researcher, working across multiple platforms, including mobile, web, personal computer
- Experience in the healthcare or payments industries is preferred
- Expert on methodology, study design, and analysis/reporting, including ethnographic research, site visits, interviews, voice of the customer, think-out-loud studies, and task-based usability testing
- Exceptional and demonstrated end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research skills
- High standards of detail, excellence, professionalism and role model behavior