What are the responsibilities and job description for the User Experience Researcher position at InfoStride?
Position: UX Researcher
Location: Chicago, IL- Hybrid
Duration:6 months
REQUIRED SKILLS
Top 3 skill sets required for this role:
1. Strategy: translating business and user goals into product and user experience direction
2. Execution: UX/UI/interaction design skills and operation of Figma (design systems, prototyping)
3. Soft skills: ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with team and stakeholders
- Data analysis (product analytics e.g., GA, Quantum Metric)
- Motion design
- UX writing
- Extensive knowledge of usability and user experience research tools and techniques (e.g. field research, heuristic reviews, benchmarking, card sorts, lo-fidelity prototyping methods, etc.)
- Strong project management and negotiating skills are central to the position.
- Strong moderation skills and methods for group facilitation and consensus building
- Ability to work independently, in a team, and with or without direction is imperative.
- Related experience in another field such as human factors, interactive design, information architecture, and/or market research is a plus.
- Experience creating user personas and journey maps to support a user centered design methodology.
- 5 years of research experience with multifaceted responsibilities.
