Description

Here, we believe there’s not one path to success, we believe in careers that grow with you. Whoever you are or wherever you come from in the world, there’s a place for you at Sherwin Williams. We provide you with the opportunity to explore your curiosity and drive us forward. We’ll give you the space to share your strengths and we want you to show us what you can do. You can innovate, grow and discover in a place where you can thrive and Let Your Colors Show! Sherwin-Williams values the unique talents and abilities from all backgrounds and characteristics. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply, including individuals with disabilities and Protected Veterans.

The User Experience (UX) Research Manager leads a team of UX researchers to uncover opportunities to create more compelling and user-friendly digital experiences across Sherwin-Williams websites and applications. This role will ensure products have the customer insights needed to drive the delivery of more innovative, customer focused, easy-to-use products. The UX Research Manager will advocate for the voice of the customer and infuse user experience principles into product development.

Essential Functions

Strategy & Planning

• Guide the UX discovery process to uncover needs and insights through UX research activities such as contextual inquiry, journey mapping, user interviews, and diary studies

• Establish and manage relationships with key stakeholders including product owners, business teams and technology partners to align with and create product strategies that contribute to business success

• Uncover innovation opportunities and lead design thinking collaboration sessions to inform solution design

• Determine staffing and skills requirements for projects

• Lead and support the vision for UX at Sherwin-Williams and identify and implement strategies towards realizing that vision

• Establish an effective and continuous user engagement process to gain valuable insights to share and educate others in the organization, allowing user needs to help establish roadmaps

• Actively advocate and find creative, compelling ways to share research and customer insights so the company has awareness of what UX Research does, how they do it, and the impact of the insights research has delivered

Acquisition & Deployment

• Identify opportunities for marrying qualitative and quantitative methodologies to tell a deeper, more complete story

• Coach teams to deliver impactful multi-phased research projects within budget, timeline and project requirements

• Conduct and oversee formative and summative user research to shape product decisions and measure the effectiveness of designed solutions

• Find creative and compelling ways to share and evangelize research and customer insights across the company

• Define UX KPIs in coordination with other stakeholders for product success measurement

Operational Management

• Hire, supervise, set objectives, and evaluate a team of UX researchers, developing individual skillsets through regular feedback, coaching, and training as necessary

• Manage team workload, project resourcing and coordination for your team of researchers in support of multiple products across the Sherwin-Williams digital ecosystem

• Provide leadership, direction and mentorship to UX research team.

• Lead ResearchOps efforts, working with the team to define research standards, templates, deliverables, tooling infrastructure, and participant recruitment practices across product teams

• Forecast resource needs and provide justification for growing the team to provide necessary capabilities and expertise

• Set the standard for operational excellence by constantly looking for ways to improve our methods, techniques, deliverables, and evaluation criteria.

• Explore opportunities for leveling-up others in the company on research practices and methodologies to accommodate lower priority research needs while continuing to build out the UX research team.

• Formalize capabilities, services and models of engagement with the UX Research team.

• Create and maintain development plans for team members, including training, skills assessment, career planning, and goal planning

• Measure and track ROI of UX successes, construct case studies that demonstrate the impact of UX

Incidental Functions

• Train and knowledge share with development and project teams

• Make presentations to management, clients, and peer groups. Facilitate conversations to gain alignment

• Conduct research into new technologies, including tools, components, and frameworks

• Responsible for hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy

• Up to 15% travel as required

• Work outside the standard office 7.5-hour workday as required

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.

Knowledge & Experience

• 10 years IT experience.

• 4 years of experience managing/supervising teams.

• 8 years of experience as a UX professional

• Experience using a variety of generative and evaluative UX research methods for both remote and in-person research, including card sorting, heuristic evaluation (formal and informal), cognitive walkthroughs, journey maps, usability testing, etc.

• Understanding of the application of different research methods and the ability to articulate the appropriate methodology to accomplish research goals

• Understanding of user-centered design fundamentals and interaction design principles

• Hands-on experience working with diverse groups of stakeholders to lead them through research proposals and gain alignment on how your research will enable better product outcomes

• Project management skills with a track record of accomplishing goals on time and on budget

Personal Attributes

• Proven leadership, decision-making and team management skills

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to facilitate and present with ease in front of groups, gaining consensus as needed.

• Established interpersonal skills, positive attitude, and adept at emotional intelligence

• Committed to quality and driven to deliver exceptional work that makes an impact on the organization

• Well organized and able to accomplish multiple and changing priorities

• Flexible, able to adapt and embrace change

• Team-oriented and collaborative with peers, stakeholders in the organization, external partners and team members

• Excel at life-long learning and continual growth of business, technical and interpersonal skills.

• Commitment to fostering a culture of inclusion and diversity.

The annual salary for this position is between $100,292.66 - $142,465.96 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

A general description of benefits can be found here.

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future.

Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract.

As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Sherwin-Williams requests state and local employment services delivery systems to provide priority referral of Protected Veterans.

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