User Experience Researcher

22 Nov 2024

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As a UX Researcher, you too will be a voice and advocate, empathizing with and thoroughly understanding goals, desires and preferences of target users. Supporting senior user researchers on the team, you’ll help to define methodologies and documentation of our B2B products, apps, tools, and experiences. You will collaborate with and work alongside the entire UX team including UX Architecture, UX Design, in addition to product managers, business stakeholders, and other research partners. Ultimately, you will be helping shape the future of how we deliver news and information to our customers by measuring and improving our product through customer insights. Responsibilities and what you’ll do:

  • Work within the User Research, solving problems conceptually and using data, research, and analytics to validate and inform UX decisions for our digital products
  • Work closely with Product, Editorial, Engineering, and Design to define the end-to-end user experience and accessibility
  • Maintain best practices for UX research disciplines
  • Improve and innovate on the most efficient ways to work by experimenting with new programs and documentation resources
  • Advocate for users in a fast-paced, corporate climate, fostering a shared understanding of the user-centric intersection between design, ux architecture, product, the business, and engineering
  • Be an ambassador for UXR, promoting the role research plays in helping deliver world class digital products internally and externally
  • Look beyond News and Media sectors, monitoring all relevant technology and design trends, and building a structure for feeding these back into our Products
  • Example Tasks and Outputs include: User Testing Questions & Surveys, User Personas, Research & Analysis Studies, Diary Studies, One-Click testing, tree-jack testing
Requirements:
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • 3-5 years of UX Research experience for rich interactive, consumer, or enterprise web applications
  • Experience in product design research using baselining and benchmarking to provide concrete measurements for improvement
  • Bachelor’s Degree in HCI, Communication Design, BFA, or related experience preferred
  • Confident level of knowledge of industry standard digital product design tools (Sketch, Adobe CC, and prototyping software such as Figma)
  • Expert knowledge of user experience research tools (such as UserZoom, enjoyHQ)
  • Solid grasp of latest Web and App user experience best practices
  • Understanding of user-centered design principles
  • Experience in planning, conducting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative user research using a variety of methodologies
  • Strong internal stakeholder management skills & experience
Proven track record of driving impactful change through smart, data-driven UX implementation

  • ID: #23272558
  • State: New York Newyorkcity 10001 Newyorkcity USA
  • City: Newyorkcity
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-22
  • Deadline: 2022-01-18
  • Category: Et cetera