Qualitative UX Researcher
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
2 months ago
About the role
(must have strong quant skills using R)
Project Overview
As an experienced user experience researcher with expertise in mixed methods, you'll join a stellar team of UX researchers as a vendor supporting Google. Your role will involve conducting comprehensive research and help shape the future of navigation for users globally. You'll collaborate closely with senior researchers, integrating seamlessly into their programs to contribute your insights and expertise. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, shaping the way people interact with maps and travel worldwide.
Job responsibilities
Required Skills
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $40.00 - $45.00 per hour
Experience
Ability to Commute
Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10011
Project Overview
As an experienced user experience researcher with expertise in mixed methods, you'll join a stellar team of UX researchers as a vendor supporting Google. Your role will involve conducting comprehensive research and help shape the future of navigation for users globally. You'll collaborate closely with senior researchers, integrating seamlessly into their programs to contribute your insights and expertise. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, shaping the way people interact with maps and travel worldwide.
Job responsibilities
- Plan and design effective user research
- Conduct user research using a wide variety of qualitative research methods such as usability testing, moderated interviews, concept evaluation, surveys, and literature reviews
- Analyze and report research findings, distilled into effectively communicated actionable insights and product recommendations
Required Skills
- M.A./M.S or PhD in either Experimental Psychology, Design Research, Human Factors, Social Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Cognitive Science, etc), or other related fields or demonstrable equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of relevant applied experience conducting user research.
- Solid experience with the following methods: usability studies, concept evaluations, competitive evaluations, literature reviews, diary studies, user interviews, surveys.
- Experience working on technical products, enterprise products, or developer-facing products
- Strong ability to manage, synthesize, and analyze both quantitative and qualitative datasets.
- Ability to create effective visualizations (charts, plots, etc) as needed to best communicate data using software comfortable with (examples: Google Sheets, R, Python, etc).
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Experience creating visually polished, engaging and persuasive slide decks to communicate research findings
- Can prioritize time between multiple projects, and be flexible by adapting to changing schedules
- and different projects.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $40.00 - $45.00 per hour
Experience
- R: 5 years (Preferred)
- UX: 5 years (Preferred)
- analyze both quantitative and qualitative datasets: 5 years (Preferred)
- usability studies, user interviews, surveys: 5 years (Preferred)
- Python: 5 years (Preferred)
Ability to Commute
- New York, NY 10011 (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10011
Skills
Information TechnologyTechnology, Information and Internet