Quantitative Researcher

Job Title: UX Researcher

Client Location: Remote (PST PREFERRED)

Starting: 08/08/2024

Salary/Pay Rate: $53.80 to $62 an hour.

Firm, non-negotiable: No

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 9/20/2024

Job Description:

As a UX Researcher 2 you will work closely with senior members on the team and become an expert in the motivations, workflows, and habits of data professionals and bring that expertise to the strategy, design, and growth of the many products and services in the cloud data suite. The UX Research team takes a multi-methods approach, combining expertise and creativity with both quantitative and qualitative methods combined with big data analysis to identify emerging patterns and usage and uncover user insights, unarticulated needs, and new product/service opportunities and priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a high-performing UX Research team with expertise in all types of research including qualitative, survey, usability, metrics, plus partnering with big data experts for analyses of behavioral data.
• Foster relationships with PM and design teams throughout the Data Organization so you stay close to our stakeholders and their challenges.
• Conduct a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research activities to inform product design, including but not limited to ethnographic explorations, usability studies, heuristic evaluations, interviews, contextual inquiry, surveys, user journey maps, benchmarks or any method that answers the most important research questions.
• Snap to organization-wide priorities and success criteria to design and execute on a research program that meets the organization’s needs.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

1. Minimum 2+ years experience with Markov chains, using computational notebooks.

2. Minimum 3+ years experience with Quantitative Research skills

3. Minimum 2+ years experience with analyzing telemetry/user behavior through statistical methods, specifically regression analysis

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience conducting UX research in technical domains.
• Ability to quickly and effectively analyze research data and present rich findings simply and clearly to influence product design and direction.
• Passion for learning new technologies and understanding the needs of users across a wide range of technical abilities.
• Growing communication and project management skills.
• Ability to meet customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Background Check: This position will be required to pass the background check upon hire

Preferred Qualifications:

• Phd is required
• Demonstrated ability to impact and influence business decisions across boundaries, often in ambiguous situations.
• Proven storytelling and communication skills across leadership, engineering teams, designers, customers, and partners.
• Strong leadership skills to deliver projects and customer insights within and across product teams that resulted in robust product impact.
• Ability to plan research against business needs.
• Experience conducting research globally and working with global stakeholders.
• Knowledge of customer privacy policies and tools.
• Experience working with data governance or data catalog products is a plus.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $53.80 to $59.78 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.