Sr. UX Researcher Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Sr. UX Researcher to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product managers on product hypotheses;
- A love for talking to users and learning about what they do and how they work;
- Expert knowledge of UX and interaction design best-practices and patterns;
- Proven experience conducting user research and usability studies;
- Awesome listening and personal interaction skills;
- A passion for building easy to use, delightful user experiences;
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence;
- Online portfolio of exemplary wireframe and/or user research deliverables;
- Innate ability to understand complex systems and problems and ability to see the big picture;
- Evangelize research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and oral presentations;
- Work closely with the Product and Marketing teams to identify research topics;
- Conduct independent research on multiple aspects of how users engage with Client products and experiences;
- Manage projects and people to facilitate the execution of testing plans;
- Design, conduct, and document user tests and surveys;
- Collect and analyze user behavior via quantitative methods, benchmark studies, lab studies and surveys.
Requirements:
- Front-end development experience. Some understanding of what’s technically feasible, and when to ask;
- Formal education in interaction design, user research, human-factors or the like;
- Experience designing mobile native apps and mobile web apps;
- Experience designing complex web applications (beyond marketing/brochure websites);
- Experience working in an agile environment with issue tracking tools to track daily work;
- Web accessibility experience;
- Visual design experience;
- Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills. and ability to operate in a very fast-paced environment;
- Excellent working knowledge of statistics and the principles of experiment design;
- Strong understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase;
- A deep desire to apply design toward expanding what’s possible and improving the world.