Job Requisition ID #

24WD84222

Position Overview: 

We are seeking a proactive, strategic and empathetic Principal User Experience Researcher to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for conducting impactful research with cross-functional teams as well as coordinating research across several product domains. This researcher will report to the UX Research Practice Manager. You will be a team lead with some managerial responsibilities. 

You will work with and help to coach a team of embedded researchers focused on delivering actionable insights that drive the design of impactful experiences in a fast-paced production environment. You will facilitate seamless collaboration, provide essential coaching and support, and ensure continuity of experiences from end-to-end. Your service-based leadership will be key in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation. 

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Team Leadership and Development 

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of UX researchers 

Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment to scale and increase performance velocity by modeling and empowering a can-do attitude 

Facilitate prioritization of projects, working with the UX Research Practice Manager, to balance workload and project assignments across the team 

Collaborate proactively on practice maturity, effective use of tools and modern practices, including effective application of AI  

 

2. Research Coordination 

Develop relationships across the company understanding existing research and insights to inform your team’s research projects and collaborate on end-to-end research that looks across the customer journey 

Drive a culture of experimentation earlier in the design & development process 

Identify opportunities and deliver tests based on service prototypes, low-fi prototypes, participatory research activities during design workshops, etc.  

Drive a culture of experimentation later in the design & development process 

Develop and deliver testing protocols for a CI/CD environment (feature flags, multivariant testing, etc.) 

Partner with UX Manager to integrate information from tools like Fullstory to gather and recommend insights from in-production experiences 

Partner with Journey Management practice to catalog and manage insights in the context of various journeys  

3. Collaboration and Communication 

Work closely with UX designers, service designers, product managers, and engineers to integrate research findings into the design decision-making process 

Advocate for user-centered design principles across the organization and linked to product roadmaps 

Share synthesized, consolidated, translated insights to broader stakeholders on regular basis 

Document and publish team impact  

Minimum Qualifications 

8+ years of professional research experience 

Experience in delivering qualitative and quantitative results improving product strategy and development 

Up-to-date toolkit of research methods, with experience to know when to be lean and scrappy and when to be rigorous 

Experience conducting impactful research in Agile teams 

Collaborate with a wide set of stakeholders including designers, product managers, and software developers 

Skills to distill complex ideas to their essence 

Demonstrated inquisitive mind and empathy for customers 

Value for collaboration and bringing your team along with you 

Think holistically and find patterns 

High quality communications 

Eagerness to work in the complex and derive simple valuable solutions 

Continued curiosity to evolve skills for themselves and team members  

Preferred Qualifications 

Bachelor's degree or above in cognitive or experimental psychology, human computer interaction, human factors, business, or related field 

Experience with eCommerce or platform experiences 

Experience researching multichannel experiences 

Experience with Fullstory or other analytics tools and collaborating with analytics teams 

Familiarity with Lean UX and Lean Research methodologies 

Experience with Agile software development 

Experience with stakeholder management and promoting alignment 

Experience influencing decision makers 

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About Autodesk

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When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

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