User Experience Researcher

Company: Adecco
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

Adecco is currently assisting a local client, the World---s Largest Search Engine, in their search to find a Quantitative UX Researcher. This is part of an exciting fast-growing project within the Search Engine. This is a temporary assignment slated for 12 months.
Job Title: Quantitative UX ResearcherLocation: Mountain View, CAEstimated Length: 12 months
Project Description:As a Quantitative UX Researcher, you combine skills in experimental design, statistical analysis, programming, and human-computer interaction to improve the user experience. As a key member of a product team, you work with stakeholders across functions and levels. You solve challenging problems and empower the team to move forward by developing metrics, measuring results, and integrating new methodologies into existing systems. You do more than just crunch numbers: through reports and team engagement, you provide a UX perspective on quantitative data to help stakeholders understand their users. Coming up with solutions is only one part of your job. Equally important is to identify and quantify problems, and to embark on new research areas worth exploring through innovative methods. You apply principles of rigorous and ethical research to build and improve products that satisfy users' needs and exceed their expectations.
Responsibilities:--- Define and measure quantitative UX goals and metrics in collaboration with Qualitative UX Researchers, Designers, Product Managers, Engineers and Marketing.--- Examine existing data and product designs to generate hypotheses and plans for high-impact research.--- Prioritize and drive research to improve user experience.--- Develop code and statistical models to understand user experience.--- Communicate findings to stakeholders in the company. Make research findings convincing and actionable for both research experts and non-experts.
Requirement:--- Bachelor---s degree in Computer Science, Human-computer Interaction, Statistics, Psychology or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.--- 2-5 years of experience in an applied research setting.--- Solid understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different quantitative research methods.--- Experience in a programming language commonly used for data manipulation and computational statistics (such as Python, R, Matlab, C++, Java or Go), and with SQL.--- Strong oral and written communication skills.
Desired:--- Experience with MaxDiffs, Conjoint methods.
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