What are the responsibilities and job description for the UX Researcher position at Motion Recruitment?
Our client, a major publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content, is actively looking for a UX Researcher to join their team in Philadelphia. This is a hybrid position, on site two days a week in downtown Philly.
*** This begins as a 6 month contract with an opportunity to extend or convert at any time ***
Responsibilities:
What you will do: ·
- Creatively solve problems and define research strategy:
- Develop research strategy in partnership with design and product leadership.
- Proactively plan and organize recruitment in partnership with our ResearchOps team.
- Apply the right research method to the appropriate goals, and project scope.
- Coach designers in research as needed.
Lead & conduct research:
- Guide evidence-based research strategy, representing UX Research on cross-functional working groups; collaborate closely with UX Design towards “symphony” moments.
- Lead user-centered research, inspiring the team to consistently deliver product improvements and innovations based on impactful research.
- Set engaged pace for iterating research every sprint cycle.
- Proactively use data to speak to assumptions and risks.
Focus on the customer:
- Gather, evaluate, and develop a solid understanding of customer use cases and needs, focused on search enhancement at the point of care.
- Understand competitors, market segment needs in greater detail with the help of partner teams.
- Collaborate with product and design to inform product strategy grounded in user needs.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree and 5 years of relevant UX Research experience either at an agency or in-house.
- You know a variety of research methods and can differentiate when to use which method..
- You can lead large scale complex research, in linguistically diverse contexts.
- You have a proven track record of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience working with executive-level stakeholders and influencing business strategy.
- Possess a portfolio of polished case studies illustrating their concrete impact across.
Salary : $65 - $71
