User Experience Researcher

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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