Convoy is transforming the $800 billion trucking industry, where even 10 years ago, most truck drivers did not have smartphones and paper driver logs were common. In 2015, Convoy launched the digital freight movement with an open and fully connected marketplace for brands and manufacturers to work directly with freight carriers who move truckload shipments throughout the country. This ‘Digital Freight Network’ is powered by machine learning and automation, and supported by a broad, ever-growing set of features that benefit both sides of the marketplace.

We’ve been honored to work with some great companies, such as Unilever, The Home Depot, and Procter & Gamble. We’ve also been backed by world-class investors, including Google, YCombinator, Fidelity, Greylock Generation, Lone Pine, T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford and the founders and CEOs of Amazon, Salesforce, eBay, LinkedIn, Expedia, Dropbox, Starbucks, and others. We are proud to have been named a CNBC Disruptor 50 Winner (3x), a Fast Company World Changing Idea, a LinkedIn Top Startup, a Forbes' Best Startup Employer, one of Fortune Magazine's 'Impact 20' list, a best place to work in Washington State, a BloombergNEF Pioneer winner, and more.

This is your opportunity to collaborate with an incredible group of people and help transform the freight industry. Join Convoy and help us transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste.

About you:

As a Director of UX Research for our team, you'll be working every day to empower our customers by bringing their needs into our company strategy. While working with team partners, you'll help determine product roadmap through rigorous investigation, focusing on areas requiring in-depth customer discovery. You'll help build our research practice, develop methodologies that help grow Convoy's research culture, and mentor others across the org in order to ensure the highest standards.

You will:

• Partner with Design Leads, Product Managers, Engineering, and Data Science to uncover customer insights that help deliver exceptional product experiences
• Work in partnership with product teams on the highest impact areas for both customers and the business
• Build up the research discipline. From development and evolution of methodologies, to building up the logistical processes for you and others to execute on research
• Facilitate of research sessions and mentorship of team members on best practices

We're looking for someone who has:

• 8+ years in user UX researcher, experience research, product research, or equivalent
• Deep knowledge of a broad range of research methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, with an ability to apply process and synthesize results in areas of high ambiguity. Should be able to demonstrate this knowledge tangibly via a portfolio of work
• Expertise working with multiple data sets such as telemetry, sentiment, and unstructured data sets and combining them with qualitative insights to paint a holistic picture
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an aptitude for telling engrossing stories both orally and in written form
• Experience with research operations execution and cross-team mentor ship
• Experience growing others as researchers (e.g. a team or otherwise)
• A minimum of Master’s degree in cognitive or experimental psychology, sociology, HCI, ethnography, OR a BA/BS in one of the above fields with significant academic or industry experience.

Nice to haves:

• Ability to build early-stage UX deliverables, knowledge of SQL or other telemetry back end systems

Benefits:

Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the Convoy team. Outside of offering excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits, we also offer the following: 

* On demand mental and emotional health benefits through Lyra 

* On demand primary care through 98.6

* Generous paid time off

* Paid parental leave program 

* Fertility benefit solutions via Progyny

* Child-care and adult/elder-care options through Bright Horizons

* Opportunity to join and contribute to one of our Employee Resource Groups

* Ability to make a real world impact!

Convoy is an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!