Job Title: UX Researcher III
Location: Burlingame, CA
Duration: 12 months
Job Description: HC and CF UX Researcher
Summary
The main function of a UX Researcher is to conduct research studies with human subjects. The UXR is responsible for the set-up, implementation and data collection for in-person and remote studies. They will need to work with Meta staff to ensure that the study equipment set up and the study conduct follows all applicable safety plans. This is a senior-level UXR position with increased responsibility for driving research studies, including owning experimental design, conducting user studies and collecting data, analyzing data, and creating reports with findings and recommendations for the research and product teams. This researcher will work closely with Meta's Health and Wellbeing team to implement product research that will influence product design in the short, medium, and long term.
Research is paramount to this Meta's success - formative research is needed to identify the right latent needs or problems in the world to tackle with product solutions, iterative design research is needed to mold early product ideas into testable prototypes, and creative evaluative research is needed to improve and prepare those products for market.
Duties
Be the principal investigator and own study completion, including implementation of experiments involving human subjects as well as survey design.

Skills Required:
Collaborate closely with researchers, designers, PMs & engineers to identify, define and deliver meaningful products into the world
Collaboratively and independently develop and execute research roadmaps
Lead various research studies throughout all the phases of the product development cycle
Contribute to product strategy, execution and go-to-market plan
Manage research vendors to help augment the work of the research team
Strong ability to work independently and manage one's time.
Experience with data and utilizing numbers to define and support hypotheses
Experience with storytelling to get traction with various audience
Experience with autonomy and decision making to balance competing demands
Optional/preferred:
Some knowledge of coding (e.g., with R, Python, JavaScript, command line, or other languages)
Education
Course work or lab experience in the following sub-areas: speech perception/production, psycholinguistics, hearing science, language-focused cognitive psychology, auditory neuroscience, social science, psychology, and similar
Desired Experience
Any experience with cognitive, behavioral, or physiological domains focused on speech/sound perception and hearing sciences