User Experience Researcher

UX Researcher

The UX Researcher will support strategic customer and employee experience initiatives focused on emerging digital capabilities, artificial intelligence, and customer-centered product development. This role will partner with Product, Technology, Design, and business stakeholders to identify user needs, validate solutions, and deliver insights that inform product and experience decisions.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct UX research activities including interviews, surveys, usability testing, workshops, and concept validation.
• Facilitate stakeholder, discovery, and design thinking workshops to identify needs, align teams, and explore solution opportunities.
• Analyze findings and communicate actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Develop research deliverables such as personas, journey maps, and research summaries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support customer-centered decision making through evidence-based recommendations.
• Independently conduct research activities while also supporting the UX lead with research planning, participant recruitment, facilitation, analysis, and synthesis efforts.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of UX research experience.
• Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research.
• Strong research, synthesis, and communication skills.
• Experience working with product, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Human Factors, Anthropology, Sociology, Information Science, Design Research, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience preferred. Without an associates degree, at least 4 years experience is required; with a HS Diploma/GED, at least 6 years experience is required.

Preferred

• Experience with digital products, customer experience, or emerging technologies.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled products and services.

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