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Tekwissen

UX Researcher II

Tekwissen, Broomfield, Colorado, United States, 80020


Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a company that specializes in global climate technologies. It operates Climate segment that delivers energy efficient products and energy services. The company offers the client and American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning which provides heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and commercial and residential building services, parts, support, and controlsenergy services and building automation.

Position: UX Researcher II

Location: Broomfield, CO 80021

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Remote

Job Summary:

Work in an agile environment, coordinating with people across products and across disciplines, balancing business objectives, end-user goals, and technical requirements to assist in the creation of world-class experiences.

Responsible for ensuring the user-viewpoint is well-represented in everything that the Digital Product teams do, from planning through development, and release.

Skilled and curious researcher who can plan, recruit, conduct, analyze, and present user research.

Help build whole team buy-in and bring your Product Owner and developers with you through the process, whether through field research, collaborative journey mapping, facilitating a design sprint, or running a usability test.

By obtaining and communicating user needs for short-term and long-term visioning, validating experiences in an agile environment, and conducting deeper exploration into concepts that impact multiple project teams, this role will impact customer, prospect, and partner experiences.

This role is 80% user experience research/analysis and 20% strategic user experience, with opportunities to apply interaction design skills if you have them. Experience with B2B commerce is highly beneficial.

Responsibilities:

Plan and conduct user research as an input into both experience strategy and project execution.

Guide teams on best research methods for a given problem, question or challenge.

Analyze, synthesize, interpret, and explain research results.

Prepare and deliver easy-to-understand, well-designed research plans and findings tailored to a variety of audiences.

Plan and facilitate workshops with key stakeholders to gather information and insights.

Help drive to consensus.

Document and communicate outcomes in a clear, effective, and visually-appealing manner.

Actively lead and collaborate in discussions and working sessions with cross-functional groups.

Interpret user feedback to help guide designers as they develop high-fidelity designs and prototypes.

Work independently under general prioritization and guidance of the UX Director.

Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Specific Deliverables Include:

Research Proposals/Plans.

Research Results/Analysis Presentations and Leave-Behinds.

Personas and User/Customer Journey Maps Required Experience:

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

2 to 4 years in a user experience role, including UX research and UX strategy

Experience planning, conducting and summarizing user research and design workshops

Experience with tools such as Dovetail, Lookback, Validately, Qualtrics, or Miro

Experience using a variety of research methods across the product lifecycle Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills

Strong presentation skills, including preparing presentations and presenting them to various local and remote audiences

Strong consultative skills, capable problem-solving abilities, and ability to build consensus across teams

Willingness to travel, as needed, to conduct user research

Comfortable work independently on multiple projects and priorities

Additional Preferred Experience

Degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction or similar field

HVAC and or manufacturing industry experience

Experience with web and mobile design in an agile environment

Comfortable working with UX research and design agencies

Creating and testing Information architectures & Micro-copy

Working knowledge of graphic design best practices (color theory, brand standards)

Experience in Figma, Axure, Sketch, Adobe XD, Omnigraffle, Balsalmiq, or other wireframing and interactive prototyping tools

Experience leading researchers and/or designers

Micro-copy experience

Quantitative research skills

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.