Motion Recruitment is hiring: User Experience Researcher in Philadelphia

Senior UX Researcher

Our clients elite team of UX strategists and designers is looking for entrepreneurial minded Senior UX Researcher to join them on this confidential project.

Duration: 6 months contract, with the possibility of an extension

What you will do:

• Creatively solve problems and define research strategy
• Develop research strategy in partnership with design and product leadership
• Proactively plan and organize recruitment in partnership with our ResearchOps team
• Apply the right research method to the appropriate goals, and project scope
• Coach designers in research as needed
• Lead & conduct research:
• Guide evidence-based research strategy, representing UX Research on cross-functional working groups; collaborate closely with UX Design towards “symphony” moments.
• Lead user-centered research, inspiring the team to consistently deliver product improvements and innovations based on impactful research.
• Set engaged pace for iterating research every sprint cycle.
• Proactively use data to speak to assumptions and risks.
• Focus on the customer:
• Gather, evaluate, and develop a solid understanding of customer use cases and needs, focused on search enhancement at the point of care
• Understand competitors, market segment needs in greater detail with the help of partner teams.
• Collaborate with product and design to inform product strategy grounded in user needs.

Required qualifications / skills:

• The ability conduct research studies end to end within a team, at a agile pace
• Discovery oriented research methods are well understood. These include contextual inquiry, secondary sources, jobs-to-be-done, etc.
• The ability to synthesize data rapidly using quant methods is a plus
• You know a variety of research methods and can differentiate when to use which method
• You can lead large scale complex research, in linguistically diverse contexts
• You have a proven track record of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience working with executive-level stakeholders and influencing business strategy
• Possess a portfolio of polished case studies illustrating their concrete impact across
• Adept at delivering research quickly with just enough analysis to gain directional insights
• A love for talking to users and learning about what they do and how they work
• Innate ability to understand complex systems and problems and ability to see the big picture
• You think strategically but can practically apply it without getting lost

You listen well, and in all your brilliance still nurture the posture of a learner