Lead User Researcher at GoodRx (Santa Monica)
What you’ll be doing:
- You’ll work with Product Management, Data, Product Design, and/or Marketing to drive highly actionable and meaningful research insights to inform product and feature directions. You'll know you're successful when you've influenced strategic decisions that alleviate our patient users’ biggest pain-points. Specifically, you'll:
- Collaborate with the rest of the researchers regularly, ensuring close communication and awareness of all the research across the organization, building and refining research processes as a team
- You'll work with team members in your product verticals to identify, prioritize and scope research needs from small to large, ensuring proper prioritization of the most impactful research work
- Build a strong relationship with your product, data, design, and marketing counterparts to inform and shape how we do discovery of new products and features across GoodRx
- Design and execute research projects, choosing the right mix of quant/qual methods to answer complex questions. You’re highly collaborative, bringing your team members into your research process to grow their understanding of the user problems we’re trying to solve
- Provide guidance and training on research tools and techniques to encourage self-service UX research amongst your team members
- Strategize and communicate research findings across the organization to spread the importance of user research and the positive impact it brings to the product development process, as needed
- Be the voice of the customer, a research thought leader and continuously advocating for our users
What we look for:
- You’re passionate about solving user problems
- You’re biased towards action, super scrappy and strategic, and has experience operating autonomously in a fast-paced environment
- You’re a relentless driver to get things done, you know what you have to do and will do what it takes to unblock any hurdles that get thrown your way
- You have deep expertise with qualitative and quantitative research methods, and can easily know when to use which - depending on the problem you’re solving
- You know when to push for what you believe in and when to be flexible
- You welcome change and open to trying new ways of doing things
- You are highly collaborative, and likes to bring everyone along in your research process
- You know your audience, and are a great synthesizer of complex user feedback and data, and can translate them into succinct and actionable insights, you’re also an extremely strong communicator, able to clearly and efficiently articulate your findings with the team to inform product decisions
- You’re a stickler for efficiency and process, and don’t mind rolling up your sleeves to drive better ways of working
- You enjoy mentoring other researchers or designers
- You have experience using user research tools such as Qualtrics, UserZoom, dScout, Surveymonkey, etc.
- 5+ years of experience in user research related to software and digital experiences
- MA/MS or PhD in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Cognitive or Experimental Psychology, Sociology or a related field is preferred, or equivalent work experience