Hardware UX Researcher IV Job at Ursus Inc in Seattle

JOB TITLE: Hardware UX Researcher IV
LOCATION: 9 Month Contract
DURATION: Seattle, WA or Bay area (Burlingame or Sunnyvale)
PAY RANGE: $83 - $94/hr

TOP 3 SKILLS:

• Hardware UX Researcher with 4+ years experience in hardware products and/or virtual/mixed reality products.
• End-to-end UX research, being able to select the appropriate methods for a study
• Project is VR controllers, handhelds, controllers, automotive, input. Even medical research would be a good background

COMPANY:
Our client is a Fortune 500 multi-national technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Summary:

• Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative and some quantitative methods, including remote and in-home interviews, diary studies, in-lab studies with Client hardware prototypes, and ethnographic observation, to track current MR product performance in market and inform future VR product development
• Work closely with partners (hardware engineering, industrial design, product management, privacy & security, and more) to ensure the product team is moving forward with a clear understand of the user problem space
• Effectively communicate with and present findings to a variety of audiences from product teams to executive leadership

Summary:
As a UX researcher on NPE, you'll have the opportunity to partner directly with a single, tightly integrated pod with significant freedom to operate with the time, people and space necessary for conceiving, building and launching brand new products. Research is paramount to this organization's success - formative research is needed to identify the right latent needs or problems in the world to tackle with product solutions, iterative design research is needed to mold early product ideas into testable prototypes, and creative evaluative research is needed to improve and prepare those products for market.

Job Responsibilities:
• Collaborate closely with researchers, designers, PMs & engineers to identify, define and deliver meaningful products into the world
• Collaboratively and independently develop and execute research roadmaps
• Lead various research studies throughout all the phases of the product development cycle
• Contribute to product strategy, execution and go-to-market plan
• Manage research vendors to help augment the work of the research team

Must Have Qualifications:

• Hardware UX Researcher with 4+ years experience in hardware products and/or virtual/mixed reality products.
• Core engineering meetings, gathering requirements needed to do studies, run them and report the findings back
• Strong capacity for methods
• End-to-end UX research, being able to select the appropriate methods for a study

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Writing is valuable, knowledge consolidation
• Haptics, how people use their hands, human factors, how different anthropometrics relate, building hardware that people can interact with
• Internal recruiting, being personable
• Project is VR controllers, handhelds, controllers, automotive, input. Even medical research would be a good background

Skills:
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability to work independently and manage one's time.
• Experience with data and utilizing numbers to define and support hypotheses
• Experience with storytelling to get traction with various audience
• Experience with autonomy and decision making to balance demands
• Strong mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.

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