UX Researcher
Fully RemoteOur direct, F500 client is looking for a UX Researcher to join their organization in a fully remote long-term contract position. In this role, you ll lead and support usability studies, uncover user insights, and help shape user-centered improvements across products and platforms. You ll collaborate closely with product and development teams while working alongside experienced UX researchers.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
– – Assists with planning, recruiting, and scheduling user experience services for insurance agents, employees, and consumers.
– Works with business and development teams to gather requirements and define business goals; develops alternative approaches when necessary.
– Performs user experience studies with some guidance from senior researchers
– Communicates regularly with sponsors, stakeholders, and participants to ensure understanding of the desired outcomes and to address issues to keep initiatives on track.
– Collects, reports, and communicates on metrics to measure the usage of user experience services; works with others to drive communication and information sharing across the organization regarding results and current studies to increase understanding of services and value to the business.
– Uses acquired knowledge and guidance to recommend optimizations for user experience services to ensure successful outcomes and business value.
– Follows user experience standards, guidelines to align with best practices.
– Stays current with industry user experience standards and best practices to ensure the ability to offer the best method to match the business need
– Responsible for conducting generative research to uncover user needs and opportunities, and evaluative research to test and validate solutions for continuous improvement.
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Required:
– Fundamental knowledge of software development concepts including familiarity with different methodologies, elements of software construction and roles involved in the lifecycle
– Ability to work in a team-oriented environment, including with teams from other business areas
– Analytical and problem-solving skills.
– Fundamental Listening, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to translate technical information into understandable terms
– Ability to research emerging user experience, software development and industry best practices
– Ability to guide customers through the User Centered Design process of implementing UX improvements
– Responsible for conducting generative research to uncover user needs and opportunities, and evaluative research to test and validate solutions for continuous improvement.
Plusses:
– Proficient knowledge of IT industry user experience approaches, standards and best practices.
– Proficient knowledge of various information technology functions, concepts and practices in a large IT environment, with the ability to align technical
– decisions to business need, and facilitate technical decision making based upon business value vs. cost.
– Ability to align local goals and direction with IT vision, strategy and priorities.
– Ability to set up and use user experience equipment and software tools (e.g., usability labs).
How to Apply
Find Out More!Send your resume to recruitRMP@precmgmt.com.Please reference opening number 5341W