Staff User Experience Researcher
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Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!Who we are looking for As a Staff User Researcher, you will be a driving force behind our commitment to deliver exceptional user experiences. In this pivotal role, you will strike a careful balance between conducting detailed, hands-on micro-research and usability evaluations to uncover user insights, while also leading strategic user research initiatives that shape product vision across Frame.io. As the dedicated Researcher on this product team, you thrive as an independent and proactive leader.Key Responsibilities: User Research Strategy and Execution:Develop and implement a comprehensive Research strategy that aligns with organizational goals and product roadmaps.Implement hands-on, micro-level usability research to unveil intricate customer problems and perspectives, recognizing that sometimes the smallest details can have the biggest impact on user experience.Lead sophisticated, cross-functional research that spans multiple products or platforms, ensuring consistency and coherence in the user experience.Product Vision:Collaborate with leadership and product teams to craft the long-term mission and tactical plan for our products, ensuring a deep integration end-user desires and behaviors.Take on the role of a passionate advocate for human-centric design approaches, fostering an organizational culture that prioritizes customer understanding and addresses the needs of our diverse user base.Collaborator Engagement and Influence:Possess exceptional leadership skills, encouraging positive relationships with collaborators across multiple subject areas, including executive leadership.Apply your expertise and credibility to influence decision-making at the highest levels, ensuring user insights are reflected in the product's strategic roadmap.Mentor and guide a team of Designers, Product Managers and Engineers who conduct their own customer research efforts, providing leadership, mentorship, and oversight to ensure high-quality outcomes.Storytelling and Communication Mastery:Craft compelling narratives that bring user insights to life, using video, data visualization, personas, journey maps, and other techniques to effectively communicate research findings.Excellent Communicator with strong presentation design skills and exceptional written and verbal communication skills.Through your leadership and influence, inspire all teams to adopt user compassion as motivation underpinning our product development.Qualifications:
Demonstrated ability in user research, leading research initiatives and influencing thinking to improve outcomes for the end user.Extensive expertise in mix-methodologies, including usability testing, interviews, surveys, field studies, and data analysis techniques.Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations.Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to diverse audiences, from product teams to executive leadership and external partners.Validated ability to lead, mentor, and develop user research teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.Exceptional consensus building skills to drive alignment across wide range of teams.Proven experience in shaping how collaborators think based on user insights.Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to work optimally in cross-functional and matrixed environments.Nice-to-Haves
Proven track record of generating, synthesising and communicating user insights into recommendations that drive product strategy within the creative software domain.Strong skills in data analysis, and quantitative research methods, enabling the extraction of valuable insights from large datasets.Deep understanding of creative processes and workflows, gained through hands-on research engagement.Proven thought leadership and expertise in understanding user expectations, adoption barriers, and limitations of AI technologies, particularly in the context of creative and generative AI applications.Comprehensive knowledge of Adobe's suite of creative products and their role within end-to-end creative workflows.Advanced degree or equivalent experience in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Design, or a similar field
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of user experiences at Adobe. If you are an independent, seasoned user researcher with a passion for leadership, storytelling, and advocating for user needs, we encourage you to apply.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $132,400 -- $250,900 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.Adobe is proud to be anEqual Employment Opportunityand affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.Learn more.
Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, emailaccommodations@adobe.comor call (408) 536-3015.Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other’s employees.
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