Job description
UX ResearcherLocation: London
Length: 6 months
Rate: £48-52 p/h
Hours: 9am-6pm
Our client aims to understand the people who will use our products, gleaning insights to drive product direction and strategy. Our clients’ methods range from generative to evaluative, ethnography to experimentation, and involve close collaboration between researchers and our clients cross-functional partners. As we scale the team, we're looking for teammates with a range of expertise from specialists to methodological generalists, with skills in qualitative and quantitative research methods.
The right candidates will be:
- Knowledgeable about product development and design
- Curious about the relationship between technology and society
- Comfortable in a fast-moving organization, excited to collaborate, and passionate about understanding and helping people.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with product teams to identify research initiatives
- Design hypotheses and lead studies that examine both user behaviour and attitudes
- Generate actionable insights that both fuel ideation and evaluate product experiences
- Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative methods and a subset of quantitative methods, such as surveys
- Communicate results and illustrate suggestions in compelling and creative ways
- Act as a thought leader in the domain of research, while advocating for the people who could use our products
- Work closely with cross-functional partners (product management, data science, analytics, business, design, engineering, etc.)
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in human behaviour related fields (Computer Science, HCI, Experimental Psychology, Sociology, Information Science, Political Science, etc.)
- 5+ years experience in applied product research
- Ability to create a research plan including logical formulation of a research hypothesis.
- Basic understanding of quantitative, behavioral analysis and statistical concepts
- Experience with a range of qualitative methods including but not limited to interviews, contextual inquiry, concept testing, and diary studies
