As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you'll help your team of UXers, product managers, and engineers understand user needs. You'll work with stakeholders across functions and levels and have impact at all stages of product development. You'll play a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products. You'll explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research such as field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.

In the Search Team, they're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. By running UX research for the Search Team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Role description:
Designing and conducting different types of research studies with a focus on usability studies. Collaborate with product teams to define and prioritize research questions. Ensure effective communication of research findings, including synthesizing them into workable design principles. Support product improvements based on research findings.
Responsibilties:

• Analyze, synthesize, and interpret study findings into key insights to be delivered to cross-disciplinary stakeholders in a clear, concise, and compelling way.
• Conduct usability studies, using other methodologies, including diary studies, literature reviews, surveys, and relevant approaches to answer research questions.
• Engage cross-functional stakeholders to align on research needs and define projects that clearly convey the goals, hypotheses, recruiting characteristics, methods to be used, and expected impact.
• Work with cross-functional remote teams across Real World Journeys.
• Identify and frame strategic problems, own the research lifecycle, translate insights to influence both short and long-term product decisions and roadmaps.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
• Product research experience in an applied research setting.
• Experience preparing and conducting usability studies
• Excellent analytical ability, especially with regard to observation of user behavior.
• Strong oral and written communication skills; can present findings concisely and effectively.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $80/hr to $90/hr. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

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Our eligible talent get 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 . More information on our awesome !
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