User Experience Research Lead
Peer Consulting Resources Inc.
New York, NY
Expired: 17 days ago
Applications are no longer accepted.
- Full-Time
Job Description
Job Title: User Experience Research Lead
Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid:3 days in office/2 days remote)
Duration: 6 Months
Hours/Week: 35
Years of Experience: 10+ Yrs.
Job Description:
The User Experience Research Lead is a strategic leader who advocates for user-driven and evidence-based digital experiences for New Yorkers.
- This position will report to the Chief Digital Strategy Officer to improve the digital experience for New Yorkers.
- The User Researcher aims to understand user behaviours, needs, motivations, and preferences. This role will provide the team insights through various research methods to inform product decisions and create user-centered products and services.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Understand challenges that New Yorkers experience through qualitative and quantitative user research to help define opportunities where the end-client can meet those needs by generating hypotheses, prototypes and evidence
- Develop and execute a User Experience Research toolkit that defines the best testing methodologies for different product phases (discovery, definition, testing and monitoring)
- Plan, gather, and analyze, insights about users through new studies and review of existing data
- Compile finished, well-documented research findings to deliver meaningful and actionable insights for stakeholders
- Own UX research and run multiple streams of work at one time
Mandatory Skills and Experience:
The successful candidate should possess the following:
- Expertise conducting unbiased generative research through competitive analysis, heuristic reviews, user interviews, stakeholder interviews, diary and field studies
- Expertise with testing methodologies to define and test a user problem such as task analysis, prototype testing, card sorting etc.
- Expertise conducting unbiased usability testing, A/B and multivariate testing analysing results with statistically sound methodologies
- Experience recruiting users that align with required demographic and behavioural profiles
- Nurture a culture of exploring creative solutions that prioritize the best digital experience for New Yorkers that is informed by strategy, user evidence, analytics and competitive research
- Demonstrate high design standards and inclusion to build a diverse, high-performing team, and actively reach out to diverse communities of digital talent to source prospective candidates
- Inspire City partners and colleagues to anchor their work in human-centered design, user research methodologies and evidence-based solutioning
Desirable skills and experience:
- 10+ years of experience conducting user research through all product design phases
- Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret and identify valid patterns and trends
- Understanding of statistical principles to evaluate data
- Experience working in cross-disciplinary teams of product, engineer and data experts to deliver products and services that improve user's experience and organizational goals, on time
- Expertise in driving user research from planning to conducting research with users with an extensive knowledge of research methodologies
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate design concepts and strategies in plain language to partners and cross-functional team
- Exemplifies diversity, equity and inclusion work in design practice and past projects
Expertise and use of methodologies that prevent research pitfalls:
- Over generalizing results
- Biased methodology or conclusions
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Not considering other related factors
- Not understanding or validating data sources
Contact Details:
1.Poonam Khandelwal
Email: poonam.khandelwal@peer-consulting.com
Cell: (732) 797-9766 / Ext.408
3.Saheb Kumar
Email: Saheb.Kumar@Peer-Consulting.Com
Cell: 732-481-1193
Address
Peer Consulting Resources Inc.
New York, NY
11201
USA
Industry
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