The Washington Post
Senior UX Research Strategist (Finance)
The Washington Post is seeking a UX Research Strategist to join its Product Design team. This team of UX, UI and visual designers leads design strategy and visual approaches for The Post's suite of digital products, including washingtonpost.com, our native iOS and Android apps and internal tools.
As a Senior UX Research Strategist on the Product Design team, you will focus on planning and conducting research to uncover insights that allow us to better understand our users and identify opportunities to strategically deliver products that meet their needs. You will conduct primary research to understand behaviors, motivations and pain points of our users, using a variety of research methods. You will create shared understanding and empathy about users needs for our product designers, product managers, engineers and stakeholders. Your research will help us define the strategy, improve the usability, usefulness, desirability and impact of our products. You will define qualitative and quantitative research methods, a research learning agenda, and identify strategic objectives for our team to explore through design frameworks that are supported by research insights. You will evaluate qualitative and quantitative research to distill valuable actionable insights from data. A passion for driving strategy through empathy and aligning user needs with business goals is a must.
You'll be part of a team of more than a dozen designers - guiding and advising team members on research strategies and best practices. You'll collaborate with designers, product managers and internal stakeholders across multiple teams to identify, and conduct research initiatives so we can better understand and focus on our users.
What you will do:
Understand our users
Influence our products
Strategically Elevate Our Work
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