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The Adecco Creative and Marketing Team has partnered with one of the nation's largest banks to hire a UX Researcher.

This is a 12 month, W2, onsite (3 days onsite), 8AM-5PM contract in Kennesaw, GA, Pennington, NJ or Chicago, IL. The pay is $50-$80/hr.

Position Summary

As a UX Researcher, you should have experience in enterprise wide planning and executing of appropriate user research methodologies. A UXR needs to have a foundation in overall user-centered design process along with excellent empathetic user research, data analysis and accessibility skills. A researcher is involved in all aspects of the experience design process from context-based research to presenting to internal clients, senior stakeholders and team members alike. Success depends on close collaboration and partnerships with end-users and subject matter experts, as well as product and technology counterparts. This position is for a researcher with a user-first mindset, who has the passion for stepping in a users’ shoe and understanding their needs and bridging the gap between a user’s mental model and business goals. This individual thrives in a highly collaborative and cross-disciplinary team environment.

Responsibilities:

• You will plan, execute and analyze user research studies with the ability to flexibly scale them across desktop and mobile devices. Collaborate with stakeholders to define & refine research objectives and ensure alignment with strategic, business and user goals.
• Work closely with UX strategists, designers and fellow researchers to provide research expertise and support during workshops and ongoing UX activities.
• Collaborate with the design team to conduct design research to enhance UI Standards & the Design Pattern library.
• Interpret qualitative and quantitative data from web analytics, user research data, trends and patterns to create actionable recommendations at project and portfolio level.
• Elicit user needs and usability concerns through various research methods, such as interviews, surveys, usability testing, task analysis, contextual inquiries, ethnographic studies, & card sorting.
• Evaluate and evolve user models (personas, scenarios, profiles).
• Develop information architecture and content strategy.
• Perform heuristic evaluation, accessibility reviews and testing of applications and make concrete recommendations for improving their usability.
• Provide rapid prototyping support to communicate concepts/designs recommendations based on research conducted.
• Synthesize research data, summarize findings & present results to management and project teams for both strategic and project level insight.

Qualifications:

• Has organizational skills to manage multiple projects, shifting priorities, demands and timelines.
• Deeply empathetic and passionate about understanding the target audience.
• Is an enthusiastic, highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic and an intense focus on achieving results.
• Collaborates and builds trust with design, product, and tech partners.
• Proactively seeks out partnerships.
• Owns your schedule and delivers on time.
• Embraces the opportunity to work in an office while collaborating with teammates and partners in other locations (not remote).
• Bachelors or Masters in Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience, Usability Engineering, Experimental Psychology or related field, or equivalent education and related training / certification.
• Financial or similar industry experience.
• Experience with user-centered design research methodologies and rapid ideation processes such as Lean XD, Design Sprints and Agile methodologies.

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.