Senior UX Researcher Job at Think Company in Philadelphia

Description:

Think Company is looking for a Senior UX Researcher to join our growing team - come and think with us!

Think Company operates in the United States as a remote-first company, with potential for as-needed travel associated to client needs. As such, please consider this a remote (work from home) position. Please note that Thinkers are expected to operate within Eastern Standard Time Zone business hours.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Annual Base Salary: $78,030 - $95,000

Think Company is looking for a Senior UX Researcher to join an established design and research team. As a member of this team, you will help evolve and refine existing initiatives while also contributing to developing future strategic research and design decisions for our client’s line of work.

You should have experience owning significant portions of major research initiatives, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative, generative and evaluative research. You should also be able to assess research questions at hand, plan a path forward, and surface invaluable insights influencing next steps and key decisions—all while partnering with multi-disciplinary teams.

If you love solving problems through an intensely collaborative research and design process with clients and colleagues—and can communicate those ideas clearly—you may be our ideal candidate. In applying for this job, you should have a firm grounding in foundational design research principles, portfolio pieces demonstrating your ability to plan and execute research for complex systems, and an innate interest in shaping our connected world.

What you'd do

• Work closely with client teams to identify research goals and questions
• Guide clients and product teams on the appropriate research design strategy needed to answer critical questions
• Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative methods as well as human-centered design principles
• Conduct simple quantitative analysis and synthesis of data sets
• Work cross-functionally with software development, design, content strategy, data science, and marketing
• Communicate research insights and recommendations in compelling and creative ways with team members and senior management
• Facilitate research debriefs, brainstorming exercises, and other workshops that utilize design thinking approaches to fuel ideation and evaluate product design grounded in research findings
• Mentor and train team members in the development and practice of user experience research techniques, processes, and methods
• Assist with prioritizing research projects by collaborating with market research and other analytics and insights teams
• Command a broad set of qualitative and user-centered design research methods (e.g., usability testing, ethnography, diary study)
• Utilize design thinking approaches in product design and research
• Assist clients in building research practices and customer feedback touchpoints, enabling a continual improvement design and development environment

What you bring

• Portfolio of work demonstrating experience researching for complex systems and user experiences
• At least 4 years of relevant experience in the UX design field
• Uncommon attention to detail with a focus on efficiency
• Track record of driving research work streams and deliverables
• Strong ability to communicate research findings and opportunities to team members and clients in live presentations
• Proficiency with tools and applications that enable and supplement research efforts in remote environments (usability testing, card sorts, surveys, first click tests, diary studies, etc.)

Bonus Points

• Working knowledge of basic principles of UX and research within an agile environment

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