Aquent
Senior UX Researcher
Aquent, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary (USD):
$63 - $70 Hourly
Start Date:
07.08.2024
Project Overview:
Our client's Consumer Shopping team focuses on user needs at that moment when shoppers start or continue their shopping journey. Think about the last time that you were serendipitously motivated to start shopping - perhaps you saw someone on the subway wearing an awesome pair of sneakers or you were reminded that you needed plant food while you were watching a video. Our vision is to support and inspire users to start and resume their shopping journeys on their favorite products.
Overall Responsibilities:
This senior role will help shape the design and future of shopping on our client's platform by shining a light on user behavior, needs, and opportunities. Research projects range from foundational to evaluative studies.
Top 3 Daily Responsibilities:Design/conduct studies based on a solid understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase.Partner with cross-functional team members and other UX Researchers as you plan and execute your studies, ensuring your research aligns with top priorities.Articulate key insights through clear and comprehensive written reports, compelling visuals, frameworks, decks, and documentary style video clips. Present findings to a diverse audience, including senior leaders.Skill/Experience/Education:
Portfolio: Must share a portfolio demonstrating strong breadth and depth of UX Research experience, including qualitative foundational research (e.g., diary studies, ethnographic studies) and quantitative research (e.g., surveys)Education: A bachelor's or master's degree in a research-focused field and/or sufficient experience to demonstrate qualifications for the responsibilities aboveYears experience: 5+ years industry experience conducting user research in a professional context and has worked directly with users (e.g., lab studies, field studies, surveys, competitive analyses) and cross-functional partners (e.g., PMs, engineers, data science, marketing)Skills or processes:
Extensive experience running a variety of UXR methodologies (e.g., diary studies, ethnographic studies, surveys, usability studies). They must have owned the entire UXR process independently (from defining research questions to presenting to stakeholders)Very strong writing skills (comfortable articulating insights in a document)Experience working within a product development cycle with PMs, engineers, marketing, data scienceThe target hiring compensation range for this role is the equivalent of $63 to $70 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium . More information on our awesome benefits !Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
Client Description
A giant in the Tech Industry, this company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do-from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.
A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:
Expanding Opportunity - Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.Protecting Users - Keeping billions of people safer online.Including all Voices - Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.Responding to Crisis - Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.Advancing Sustainability - Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission - to foster sustainability at scale.
Are you ready to join the journey?
Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/find-work/talent-benefits
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary (USD):
$63 - $70 Hourly
Start Date:
07.08.2024
Project Overview:
Our client's Consumer Shopping team focuses on user needs at that moment when shoppers start or continue their shopping journey. Think about the last time that you were serendipitously motivated to start shopping - perhaps you saw someone on the subway wearing an awesome pair of sneakers or you were reminded that you needed plant food while you were watching a video. Our vision is to support and inspire users to start and resume their shopping journeys on their favorite products.
Overall Responsibilities:
This senior role will help shape the design and future of shopping on our client's platform by shining a light on user behavior, needs, and opportunities. Research projects range from foundational to evaluative studies.
Top 3 Daily Responsibilities:Design/conduct studies based on a solid understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase.Partner with cross-functional team members and other UX Researchers as you plan and execute your studies, ensuring your research aligns with top priorities.Articulate key insights through clear and comprehensive written reports, compelling visuals, frameworks, decks, and documentary style video clips. Present findings to a diverse audience, including senior leaders.Skill/Experience/Education:
Portfolio: Must share a portfolio demonstrating strong breadth and depth of UX Research experience, including qualitative foundational research (e.g., diary studies, ethnographic studies) and quantitative research (e.g., surveys)Education: A bachelor's or master's degree in a research-focused field and/or sufficient experience to demonstrate qualifications for the responsibilities aboveYears experience: 5+ years industry experience conducting user research in a professional context and has worked directly with users (e.g., lab studies, field studies, surveys, competitive analyses) and cross-functional partners (e.g., PMs, engineers, data science, marketing)Skills or processes:
Extensive experience running a variety of UXR methodologies (e.g., diary studies, ethnographic studies, surveys, usability studies). They must have owned the entire UXR process independently (from defining research questions to presenting to stakeholders)Very strong writing skills (comfortable articulating insights in a document)Experience working within a product development cycle with PMs, engineers, marketing, data scienceThe target hiring compensation range for this role is the equivalent of $63 to $70 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium . More information on our awesome benefits !Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
Client Description
A giant in the Tech Industry, this company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do-from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.
A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:
Expanding Opportunity - Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.Protecting Users - Keeping billions of people safer online.Including all Voices - Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.Responding to Crisis - Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.Advancing Sustainability - Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission - to foster sustainability at scale.
Are you ready to join the journey?
Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/find-work/talent-benefits
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.