Glean is hiring: User Experience Researcher (San Francisco) in San Francisco

About Glean Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AIpowered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The companys cuttingedge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence.

About The Role Glean is seeking a User Researcher to uncover meaningful insights that shape our AI platform, using a diverse mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Reporting to our User Research Lead, you will drive research initiatives that inform product strategy, support decisionmaking across the product development lifecycle, and champion the needs of our users throughout the organization. Youll collaborate daily with product, design, engineers, and gotomarket teams, translating research findings into actionable guidance for teams across the organization. Your expertise will contribute to scaling our research function and nurturing a deeply collaborative, learningdriven team culture focused on creating experiences that resonate across diverse industries.

You Will

• Drive mixedmethods research defining and executing studies across discovery, generative, and evaluative phases for Gleans product domains, from AI assistants to enterprise features.
• Own endtoend research initiatives, leading all phases from scoping and method selection through recruiting, data collection, synthesis, and delivering decisionready outputs.
• Partner with crossfunctional teamsproduct, design, engineering, and GTMto prioritize highvalue research that balances rigor and scrappiness in our fastpaced environment.
• Synthesize insights into strategy, crafting clear narratives and crisp recommendations that shape product direction, prioritization, and design decisions across the organization.
• Pioneer AIenhanced research, embedding AI tools into research workflows, continuously improving processes and operations while maintaining insight quality and validity.
• Scale research practice by establishing qual/quant programs and frameworks, mentoring others who conduct research, and democratizing research capabilities across teams.
• Build foundational understanding by developing personas, journey maps, and JTBD frameworks that help teams deeply understand enterprise users and their workflows.

About You

• 5+ years of experience in user research with a strong record of influencing B2B/enterprise product direction through insights, data triangulation, and storytelling.
• Exceptional qualitative methods expertise (indepth interviews, contextual inquiry, journey mapping, JTBD) with solid quantitative skills in survey design and analysis.
• Passion for enterprise users, the future of work, and how AI can augment human intelligencewith handson experience incorporating AI tools into research workflows.
• Ownership mindset: Operate independently amid ambiguity, prioritizing by user and business impact while thriving in highgrowth startup environments.
• Clear, persuasive communication: Strong narrative craftable to make complex findings accessible and actionable for diverse audiences.
• Bachelors degree in HCI, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field; Masters preferred.

Location

This role is hybrid4 days a week in our Palo Alto or San Francisco office.

Compensation & Benefits

The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000$180,000 annually. In addition, we offer equity, competitive benefitsincluding medical, vision, and dental coverage; generous timeoff; a 401k plan; a homeoffice improvement stipend; annual education and wellness stipends; healthy lunches daily; and a vibrant company culture with regular events.

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