Title: Senior UX Researcher
Location: Hybrid - 3 days in Manchester, 2 days remote
Salary: From £42,400
Who we are:
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.
We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers.
For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.
We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.
Purpose Of Role
As a Senior User Experience Researcher, you will be primarily responsible for leading, designing and conducting research using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to further improve our understanding of both current and prospective users in order to create simple, intuitive but high-performance user experiences.
You will work in a team alongside other UX professionals, who are leading the user-centric product transformation of a previously traditional financial services business. It is an exciting role that will make a real difference within an industry that is ripe for better design thinking and a user-centered focus.
Day to day, you’ll be working alongside UX Designers, UX Copywriters, UX Researchers, Analysts, Product Owners, Product Managers, Developers, Testers, Customer Service Advisers and stakeholders across the business.
Your research insights will need to inform, influence and support cross functional teams in their quest to understand more about our users, which in turn will be used to generate ideas and highlight opportunities for our roadmaps that will help champion user driven decisions and improve the user experience.
THIS ROLE IS BASED IN MANCHESTER AND WOULD REQUIRE YOU TO WORK FROM THE OFFICE THREE DAYS PER WEEK
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Embed user research into our discovery and product development process working with Research, Onsite Analytics and the Product Owners and Product Managers
Deliver both in-house and 3rd party research, including set up, recruitment, moderation, data collection, analysis and debrief
Design and facilitate workshops
Conduct primary and secondary user research
Conduct and evaluate quantitative and qualitative research
Perform market and ethnographic research
Perform usability studies with users
Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritise and evaluate research topics
Plan and implement user research strategies and methodologies
Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written and oral presentations.
Ability to ask and answer questions, gather, analyse and synthesise data
Use a diverse set of UX research tools
Provide support, guidance and coaching to designers, researchers, copy writers, product managers and UX & UI to up-skill them, and embed a user-first mindset
Drive accessibility within the UX Research team
Implement research insights across the organization
Ability to adapt to a changing environment
Skills & Experience Required
Mentoring skills
Understand qualitative research methods
Understand quantitative research methods
User Research Methodologies
User interviews
Usability Testing
Diary studies
Competitor Research
Great communication skills
A can-do, proactive attitude
Ability to see patterns in research to help aid the designers
Meticulous sense of detail and the ability to seek out simple solutions to complex challenges
Report writing
Ability to recruit users
Confidence speaking with stakeholders
Resilience
Benefits
Benefits
- Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
- Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa
- 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays
- Staff Discounts on our investment products
- Personal & Well-being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness
- Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
- Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle
Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.
interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where
What We Do
We are interactive investor (ii), the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform. For a simple, monthly fee, we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. This comes with an industry-leading selection of investments and a team generating up-to-date expert insight. ii has been helping customers for over 25 years. We have assets under administration approaching £55 billion and more than 400,000 customers. We are based in Manchester and, with offices in Leeds and London, employ more than 500 people. ii is an @abrdn business. Read more: https://www.ii.co.uk/about-us/our-ownership Important information: Please remember the price and value of investments and their income fluctuates and you may get back less than you invested. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. If in any doubt, please consult a financial adviser. Our services are provided to you by Interactive Investor Services Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Registered in England with Company Registration number 02101863. Read more about how your money is held and protected at ii.co.uk/about-us/your-protection.
