Senior UX Researcher

14 Mar 2025

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Job Summary: Allegis Group is a global leader in the talent acquisition industry. We are the fourth largest Talent Acquisition company in the world, with core operating companies including Aerotek, TEKsystems, Aston Carter, and Actalent. The UX team supports a collection of enterprise recruiter and candidate/talent platforms that:
  • Help candidates to find the perfect job
  • Support recruiters to find the perfect candidates for client companies
  • Supports Allegis employees to better support clients and candidates via
  • Features to make salespeople more consultative when engaging clients
  • Features to make candidates more discoverable
At Allegis Group, you will be supported by leadership that values company culture and work-life balance. Allegis is constantly looking to innovate within the staffing and services industry. Allegis Group is looking for an experienced mixed-methods User Experience Researcher with proven success leading large-scale research projects. The ideal candidate has experience conducting research supporting the creation and maintenance of enterprise platforms. Your work aims to understand:
  • Employees, customers, and job applicants who use our products
  • Business processes that influence workflows inside and outside of our products
  • Emerging technologies that can be utilized within the Allegis ecosystem
This role requires the employee to be a mentor to mid and junior level UX researchers. You will be responsible for research strategy at the enterprise level. You will work closely with
  • Other UX Researchers
  • UX Designers
  • Product teams
  • Architecture teams
  • Developers
  • Stakeholders
Responsibilities

Essential Functions: This role requires experience in an applied setting conducting UX research and design research:
  • Ethnography/field research
  • Interviews
  • Surveys
  • Usability testing
  • Creating prototypes
  • Card sorting and tree tests
You will work to
  • Identify research questions and assumptions
  • Collaboratively build research plans that will answer and explore those questions/assumptions
  • Execute the plans
  • Communicate insights verbally and in writing across the organization to shape the user experiences of products
Additional responsibilities include:
  • Identify the best method or mix of methods based on research questions, timeline, and resourcing.
  • Work with different data types from various sources and perform quick but thorough data analysis to create insightful and actionable findings that have a clear, direct impact on design and product.
  • Work cross-functionally with design, product management, and architecture to communicate results and advocate on behalf of our customers
Qualifications

Minimum Education and/or Experience:
  • 7+ years of experience driving all stages of qualitative-leaning/mixed-methods user research in an applied setting (study design, operational execution, data analysis, synthesis, and communicating insights/recommendations).
  • Demonstrated skill and creativity for selecting the right mix of research methods and analysis techniques to provide actionable insights to answer research questions and inform business goals, and the capacity to invent new methods when the right method does not exist.
  • Strong strategic research skills, including verbal presentation, written communication, business and product acumen, and collaboration with stakeholders including senior leaders.
  • Excellent communications skills. You are accomplished at conveying complex concepts clearly and persuasively to a variety of audiences.
  • Master's degree in an applied behavioral science, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.

Skills/Abilities: Top 5
  • UX research
  • Usability testing
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative research
  • Ethnographic methodologies
Additional Qualifications
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience, deliverables (e.g., research plans, reports), and entrepreneurial innovation across a broad range of methods.
  • End-to-end experience with all aspects of the design research lifecycle, as well as research road mapping, recruiting, moderation, and executive presentations.
  • Experience working in a large and fast-paced software development environment of enterprise scale.
  • Experience working through problems, troubleshooting issues independently, and driving them to closure with minimal supervision.
  • Experience handling confidential information and escalating issues when appropriate.
  • Organizational skills with attention to detail; the ability to juggle and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • MA, MS, or PhD in human computer interaction, psychology, sociology, anthropology, or related discipline.

Core Competencies:
  • Build relationships
  • Develop people
  • Lead change
  • Inspire Others
  • Think critically
  • Communicate clearly
  • Create Accountability

  • ID: #49467344
  • State: Maryland Hanover 21076 Hanover USA
  • City: Hanover
  • Salary: USD 100000-135000USD 100000-135000USD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-03-14
  • Deadline: 2023-05-12
  • Category: Et cetera