Role Summary and Responsibilities

The UX Researcher plays a crucial role on our client’s team by providing fast, actionable insights using a range of multi-faceted data, from qualitative interviews to quantitative data, while connecting these insights with business trends. These insights can influence cross-functional teams for both short-term and long-term implementation in large, ambiguous problem areas. The role also fosters collaboration between different teams and products. Additionally, it requires strong storytelling and survey writing skills to effectively inspire product teams and introduce new problem spaces.

Product Insights – The role involves uncovering valuable insights by identifying new user patterns or market trends through mixed methods and compelling storytelling. These insights help the team deliver practical yet ambitious new directions, ideas, and experiences that the product team can implement in both the near term and long term.

Bridge Building – As part of the Design Strategy team, you will play a key role in fostering collaboration by bridging teams and products that have never worked together before, offering a friendly and informed approach to drive positive change.

Persuasion – Persuasion is a key part of the job. The ability to craft stories that resonate, put together new frameworks for approaching problems, ask provocative questions, and inspire product teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of total UXR experience (either in-house or academic), with 6+ years experience specifically working in UX in Technology sector
• Demonstrated experience impacting product strategy, particularly within emerging-tech product teams
• Detail-oriented and ability to work fairly independently on a variety of tasks
• Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with design strategy team 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Excels at navigating ambiguity 
• Strong in survey design 

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $139.47 to $150 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

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 Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

A giant in the Tech Industry, this company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do-from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.

A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:

Expanding Opportunity – Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.
Protecting Users – Keeping billions of people safer online.
Including all Voices – Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.
Responding to Crisis – Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.
Advancing Sustainability – Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission - to foster sustainability at scale.

Are you ready to join the journey?

Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits

Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.