Senior UX Researcher – 6-Month Contract

Mississauga, CA · Salt Lake City, US
Freelance
Hybrid
Posted 6 days ago

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📋 Description

  • Plan and conduct UX research, usability studies, and mixed-method discovery
  • Partner with Product and UX Design to formulate discovery plans and recommend research methodologies
  • Identify and recruit appropriate customers, participants, and stakeholders
  • Lead end-to-end research, including discussion guide development, study facilitation, analysis, synthesis, and sharing findings
  • Conduct surveys, in-depth interviews, remote feedback, usability testing, prototype-based research, user outreach, use-case discovery, persona and journey mapping, and validation
  • Translate customer feedback and research data into actionable insights and strategy and design recommendations
  • Lead or participate in workshops and communicate strategic research decisions and outcomes to leadership
  • Provide project leadership to researchers and designers
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts, Customer Success, Data Science, and Customer Insights to strengthen persona, journey, and use-case understanding

🎯 Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a UX researcher or in a similar customer-focused research role
  • Bachelor’s degree in psychology, statistics, human-computer interaction, information systems, or a related field
  • Ability to create research strategies and discovery plans
  • Ability to develop discussion guides, select methodologies, conduct interviews and studies, and analyze and synthesize findings
  • Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills
  • Experience translating user feedback into actionable insights
  • Experience with [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], or similar tools
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to travel to customer sites approximately four times per year
  • Experience using AI tools such as [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]
  • Healthcare, medical, regulated, payer, acute-care, or financial application research experience preferred
  • Experience collaborating in [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] preferred
  • Ability to collaborate across Product, UX Design, Engineering, Customer Success, Data Science, Customer Insights, and internal subject matter experts preferred

🏖️ Benefits

  • Remote work option with in-office events requiring travel to Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City
  • Flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work
  • Training and development opportunities
  • Equal employment opportunity
  • Disability accommodations available upon request

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Benefits & Perks

Remote-friendly
Flexible hours
Training and development opportunities

Recommended Skills for this Position

User Research
Qualitative Research Methods
Quantitative Research Methods
Usability Testing
UX Strategy
Facilitation
Personas Creation
Journey Mapping
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Stakeholder Communication and Influence
Prototyping
Data-Driven Design
AI-Assisted Design Workflow
Human-Computer Interaction

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