User Experience Researcher

Job Title: UX Researcher

Client Location: Hybrid; Irvin, CA

Starting: April 2025

Salary/Pay Rate: $81.20 to $90.23 an hour

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 6 months

About out client's team:

We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We're passionately interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their goals and needs, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. The User Experience team is a critical driving force behind gathering these insights and then using them to inspire and inform design. We are a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, copywriters and web developers who collaborate closely with each other and with Engineering and Product Management to create innovative, and usable, products that people love to use.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a lead for a vertical area in the Ads department
• Conduct mixed methods user research
• User study moderation
• Administer questionnaires and surveys
• Assist other user researchers with various user research preparation activities
• Literature reviews
• Liaise with participant recruiting teams and participant onboarding
• Note taking and data capture
• Highlight-video creation
• Data analysis/synthesis
• Draft findings, recommendations, and reports based on user research
• Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written and oral presentations.
• Work with content at many levels (style guides, templates, analytics). Partner with Product, Program Management, UX, UXR, engineering, support operations, legal, PR, and other editorial groups to ensure content consistency and transparency.

Top 3 Daily Responsibilities:

• Use a range of mixed research methods for data analysis/synthesis (Interviews, Lab studies, unmoderated studies, surveys)
• Generate clear and concise findings reports with actionable recommendations for stakeholders
• Meet with cross-functional stakeholders, identify needs for research in addition to sharing learnings and insights.

Mandatory Skills/Qualifications:

• Experience leading strategic research efforts and integrating user research into product designs and design practices
• Demonstrated ability to choose the best research methods and frameworks that will be persuasive to a range of stakeholders
• Experience measuring satisfaction with products and services for product teams
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
• Demonstrated and deep experience moderating and interacting with research participants through a wide variety of methods including interviews, surveys, field studies, lab studies, usability evaluations, etc.
• Passionate, high attention to detail, innovative, creative, and team focused.
• Skills: User Experience Measurement, Human Factors/Usability, Qualitative Research, Surveys, Leadership, Influencing

Non-Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Experience doing primary research with Advertisers and Small Businesses

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $81.20 to $90.23 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent gets access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.