Job Description

Job Title: User Experience Researcher

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Duration: 8 months contract

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and conduct iterative user testings to improve the quality of the prototype
• Design and conduct user research and analysis across key AR/VR experiential factors such as input & feedback, privacy & security, efficiency, error rate agency, cognitive load, usability, etc.
• Distill the actionable improvements from empirical data and communicate them with the design and development teams
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary partners (e.g. machine learning, design, HCI, software, etc.)
• Adapt existing tools, or create a new tool that fits with the specific research context (e.g. create a survey) and validate it.

Required Skills:

• Experience with formative and summative UX methodologies at different phases of the development cycle
• Understanding of AR/VR technologies and user studies
• History of working with AI projects, understand the basic terminologies of AI.
• History of using SPSS, R, or other similar statistic data analysis program
• Experience with both qualitative and quantitative user study and data analysis methods
• Experience working as the primary investigator on a project
• Experience with data and utilizing numbers to define and support hypotheses
• Experience shipping consumer devices, including wearable technologies and AI assistant technologies
• Experience with crowd-sourced user testing methods
• Experience with storytelling to get traction with various audience
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• Experience with handling the uncertainties of the research projects

Education:

• M.S. or Ph.D. in a human behavior related field, such as human-computer interaction, psychology, sociology, information science, media studies, computer science, or economics