About Altium
Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. Our cloud platform, Altium 365, enables distributed teams to collaborate seamlessly across the entire electronics development lifecycle - from design to manufacturing. By connecting people, processes, and data, Altium 365 helps teams move faster, reduce errors, and deliver high-quality hardware products at scale.
We are looking for a UX Researcher to shape end-to-end experiences across Altium 365.
You'll be the person who keeps our product decisions connected to real users. You'll run the conversations, test the ideas before we build them, and make sure everything we learn stays findable instead of getting lost in old Slack threads and someone's notebook. You'll work closely with designers, PMs, and engineers throughout the whole cycle, from early problem framing to post-launch validation.
This is a hands-on role with a lot of autonomy. You'll own the research practice rather than execute someone else's plan.
What you'll do
Talk to users, regularly
- Own the participant pipeline: recruiting, screening, scheduling, incentives, consent
- Run interviews, contextual inquiries, diary studies, and surveys
- Build a steady cadence of user contact so the team is never more than a couple of weeks from fresh input
Validate ideas and prototypes
- Partner with designers and PMs to turn open questions into research questions
- Run usability tests and concept tests on wireframes, prototypes, and live features
- Choose the right method for the decision at hand, including quick, scrappy studies when speed matters more than rigor
- Deliver findings that clearly state what to change and what the trade-offs are
Build and maintain the insights repository
- Set up and curate a searchable database of findings, tagged by product area, user segment, and theme
- Connect new findings to old ones so patterns surface over time
- Make it genuinely usable for the rest of the team, not just an archive
- Track which insights led to which decisions, and revisit assumptions that haven't held up
Raise the team's research literacy
- Coach designers and PMs to run their own lightweight studies well
- Share findings in formats people actually read and watch: short readouts, highlight reels, workshops
- Push back when a decision is being made on opinion where evidence is available or cheap to get
Qualifications
What we're looking for
- 3+ years in UX/product research, or a closely adjacent role with substantial hands-on research work
- Solid command of qualitative methods, plus enough quantitative literacy to design a survey and interpret product analytics
- Experience testing prototypes at different fidelities and knowing what each stage can and can't tell you
- Clear communication: you can make findings land with a skeptical stakeholder in five minutes
- Comfort working in ambiguity and scoping research to fit real timelines
- Familiarity with research ops tooling (Dovetail, Condens, Maze, UserTesting, or similar)
- English at a professional level
Nice to have
- Experience setting up an insights repository from scratch
- Background in our domain: Engineering, PCB design or other complex domain
- Basic familiarity with Figma and design workflows
Altium Limited, a part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global software company accelerating the pace of electronics innovation. We are redefining electronic product creation in a software-defined world with our industry-first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase of electronics development.
From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before. At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development.
We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in UX or product research, or a closely adjacent role with substantial hands-on research work
- Strong command of qualitative research methods
- Quantitative literacy sufficient to design surveys and interpret product analytics
- Experience testing prototypes at different fidelities
- Clear communication skills for presenting findings to skeptical stakeholders
- Ability to work in ambiguity and scope research to real-world timelines
- Familiarity with research operations tools such as Dovetail, Condens, Maze, UserTesting, or similar
- Professional-level English
- Experience establishing an insights repository from scratch
- Background in engineering, PCB design, or another complex domain
- Basic familiarity with Figma and design workflows
Renesas Electronics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Renesas Electronics and has not been reviewed or approved by Renesas Electronics.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Feedback suggests pay is generally fair-to-good across many roles, with base pay aligned to prevailing market levels in multiple U.S. locations. Engineering and leadership tracks can be competitive on total compensation, reinforcing a sense that pay can meet market expectations in key job families.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests core medical, dental, and vision coverage is solid and well-regarded by employees. Day-one eligibility in U.S. roles is described, supporting confidence in access and continuity of care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests PTO, paid holidays, sick time, and parental leave provide a comprehensive time-off framework. Company initiatives like Renesas Day and meeting-light Focus Fridays further support time away and balance.
Renesas Electronics Insights
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