Founding UX Researcher

Reposted Yesterday
New York City, NY
In-Office
140K-160K Annually
Senior level
Social Media
The Role
As the founding UX Researcher at Posh, you'll conduct end-to-end user research, translate findings into actionable insights, and partner with teams to enhance product development.
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About POSH

We are all social creatures, but the dominant “social” companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges across our lives.

Human connection is lost. Posh is a beacon guiding us back.

Posh enables anyone to become an event organizer, build a community around their followers, and bring people together in person to cultivate real-world human connections. Founded by event enthusiasts and college dropouts, we’ve built the ultimate tools for creating, marketing, and monetizing in-person communities globally. In just three years, Posh has grown to a team of 60, expanded to 5M+ users, secured $40m in venture funding, and facilitated over $220M in transactions. We've achieved more than teams ten times our size in a tenth of the time—and there's so much more to come.

About The Role

At Posh, you’ll be the voice of the user—helping us uncover the real needs, behaviors, and motivations of both attendees and organizers. As our founding UX Researcher, you’ll shape the product roadmap by identifying user problems, validating ideas, and surfacing opportunities to make every product decision more informed and impactful. You’ll partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to ensure that we’re not just building fast, but building the right things.

This is an in-person position at our New York City office in the heart of SoHo, where you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the attendee and organizer experience reflects what users truly need.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end research efforts across the attendee and organizer journeys, from exploratory studies to usability testing.

  • Translate research findings into actionable insights that directly shape product strategy and prioritization.

  • Develop a deep understanding of our diverse user base through qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews, surveys, diary studies, and data analysis.

  • Partner with product and design teams to define hypotheses, select methodologies, and embed research into the product development process.

  • Create artifacts (personas, journey maps, opportunity frameworks) that help teams internalize and act on user needs.

  • Evangelize user-centered thinking across the organization, helping teams balance business goals with user impact.

  • Build and scale Posh’s research function from the ground up, establishing lightweight processes and practices that enable a small, fast-moving team to learn quickly.

Ideal Candidate

  • 5+ years of UX research experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating impact on product direction and outcomes.

  • Experience as a first or early researcher at a company, comfortable building research programs, tools, and processes from scratch.

  • Expertise in a range of research methods and the ability to select the right approach for the right question.

  • Experience synthesizing and communicating complex insights in ways that inspire clarity and alignment across teams.

  • Comfortable working in a startup environment—adaptable, resourceful, and excited to build structure where none exists.

  • Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to influence product and design decisions at both strategic and tactical levels.

  • Experience in consumer, social, or marketplace products a plus, especially in spaces that bring people together offline.

Posh provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Posh is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability

Top Skills

Data Analysis
Journey Mapping
Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Methods
User Experience
User Research
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
165 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Posh is the first social media platform dedicated to real-life social experiences. We have democratized event creation, making it easy for anyone to host events and empowering organizers to curate unique experiences. In doing so, Posh enables consumers to discover social events in their community, connect with peers around shared interests, and start and scale their own social communities.

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