UX Researcher

Our 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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Essential Skills:


- 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).



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Please click the Apply Now button to apply for the job.

We will review your resume and call if you are qualified.

Resumes will NOT be sent to clients without your approval.



REFERRALS WANTED - $ 1000 REWARD!

Refer a colleague to us, and Precision will give you $ 1000 if we find a job for that person!

(The fine print: The referred candidate must be previously unknown to us. Start date must be within 6 months of referral.)


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- We are direct vendors to Fortune 500 companies across North America



- We're the top provider of contract IT professionals to many of our clients



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- We've been in business for over 20 years, and have made thousands of successful placements



Our Background. Precision is run by former IT professionals.



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- We never submit your resume without your permission, and we never give your resume to other staffing companies



- We are up front about pay rates and the interviewing process, and provide you with constant feedback.



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- We always pay on time



- We offer highly competitive pay rates, as well as an opportunity to participate in our group health insurance, long term disability and 401(k) plans.



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Job ID 5341DI-0023