UX Researcher

Our Direct Client -Named one of Forbes' "Most Innovative Companies and Computerworld's "100 Best Places to Work in IT is looking for a

Position Title: UX Researcher

Position Summary: Our clients

User Experience (UX) team influences design thinking, strategy, and execution throughout the customer journey of numerous products, and contributes design leadership and oversight to its product teams' understanding of the factors that influence behavior, drive engagement and delight.

Bringing passion, empathy and expertise to every engagement, UX drives innovation through discovery, design and optimization of factors that positively influence decision making, bring our clients' brands to life.

About The Role

The UX Researchers partner with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle -- from the early planning stages, through product development, and following launch -- to ensure that customer considerations influence UX/UI designs intended for current and future product releases.

UX Researchers facilitate design thinking sessions and discovery workshops, design and execute ethnographic fieldwork, create and maintain personas and customer journey maps, test proof of concept prototypes and product releases, and deliver research insights and design recommendations as part of Agile teams.

The Senior UX Researcher Is Responsible For

Helping corporate partners and product owners define a user-centered product vision based on data collected via discovery research, customer interviews, user surveys, etc.

Collaborating with product development teams and UX designers to develop methodologies that test competing design options, validate and refine those options through iterative usability feedback, and ensure high levels of user satisfaction and acceptance through customer validation and benchmarking efforts.

Identifying key user research questions and objectives in partnership with product, design, and engineering triads, and working collaboratively to influence the timing for collecting, delivering and refining user-driven insights and improvements.

Leading research-oriented and usability-driven peer reviews for other UX team members and refine enterprise research guidelines and best practices.

Collaborating on the growth and maintenance of our proprietary customer research panel and engagement with non-proprietary user research and testing communities.

Requirements

5+ years of UX Research and Testing experience in the application of empirically-based insights to design recommendations in client-side or agency-side settings.

Extensive experience with qualitative and quantitative user research, including experimental design, sample selection and recruiting, surveys, focus groups, in-person and remote usability testing, ethnographic field research, and more.

Portfolio containing work samples representing complex system research and user testing outcomes for desktop and mobile experiences.

S. degree in HCI, Human Factors, Psychology, Engineering or a related subject, and practical, hands-on experience conducting research in technology-related fields.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Passion for research and testing, along with eagerness to collaborate with other creative contributors in Agile project teams.

Ability to productively collaborate with project stakeholders and teams that are both local and geographically distributed, representing a variety of cultures.

Willingness to work both independently and collaboratively with tight deadlines, and multi-task efficiently in high volume, fast paced settings.

Strong communication skills to confidently present to various audience types and seniority levels, and an ability to provide bottom-line insights that help teams realize tangible value and productively execute on research/testing findings.

Strong data collection and analysis skills to be self-sufficient in generating, analyzing and presenting results from quantitative & qualitative research, and an ability to translate complex analyses into straightforward recommendations.

Ability to carry multiple projects simultaneously, either by leading or supporting.

Commitment to best practices, user advocacy, and thought leadership that drive positive outcomes focused on high levels of quality and innovation.

The candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and capabilities:

User research and usability testing fundamentals across a wide range of digital products and applications for enterprise platforms.

Web Accessibility principles and familiarity with WCAG 2.0 is a plus.

Familiarity or proficiency with remote usability testing tools, such as User Zoom or UserTesting.com, surveying tools such as Qualtrics, and analysis tools.

Represent customer needs through discovery, business process flows, customer journey mapping, persona development, requirements gathering, etc.

Ability to design usability tests, facilitate test sessions and analyze usability data.

Ability to comfortably lead fieldwork and conduct interviews with end users.

Additional Perks:

- Excellent Market Rate/Salary

- Positive Work-Life Balance

- Competitive Benefit Packages Including Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance.

Company Overview:

AGM Tech Solutions is a Women-owned Firm relationship-based IT Consulting firm dedicated to Serving our Clients Nationwide. Our dedicated teamstrives to exceed the expectations of our clients and employees by building long term relationships based on Integrity, Trust, Hard Work, Commitment and our service experience. We offer a consultative approach to each and every client by taking the time to listen to their needs and help them get where they want to go by becoming an extension of their organization.We provide Information Technology staffing: High caliber talent for temporary support and project Deliverables.Direct IT placement services: Contract-to-Hire Direct Hire professionals for longer-term needs.

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