Senior UX Research Consultant

For one or our Client we are looking for a passionate, forward-thinking Senior UX Research Consultant creates impactful conceptual ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design. As part of a transnational team, the sr researcher drive the research of the mobile and desktop applications with fellow researchers, designers, product managers, and software developers. A senior UX Researcher should have fully technical skills over tools and methodologies applied to UX Research projects. This role should co-work with the rest of the design teams for execution, and follow-up of the projects, including coaching, client facing and delivery.

What You'll Do:

• Develop a trusted reputation as a research expert and a product and design thought leader among designers, product managers, engineers, and data analysts who care deeply about creating topnotch user experiences.
• Create and own your research roadmap, prioritizing research that will have the most significant impact on your teams product strategy and roadmap.
• Execute best in class generative and evaluative research end to end, including project scoping and design, execution, analysis, socialization, and activation.
• Sustain an informed and empathetic organization by strengthening our understanding of our customers and evangelizing research insights throughout the company.
• Highlight usability issues and advise your team on how to improve them.
• Increase research efficiency by contributing to the optimization of tools, processes, and workflows with the research team.
• Share your passion, expertise, and knowledge to help elevate your fellow researchers and the research function.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional and 3+ years of practical UX research experience with experience testing consumer software across multiple surfaces (Desktop, Mobile Web, iOS and, Android).
• Track record of utilizing multiple qualitative and/or quantitative research methods to drive business and product decisions.
• End-to-end experience with all aspects of user research (study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting).
• A portfolio demonstrating your work as a UX researcher along with stories about how your research helped fuel product breakthroughs.
• Experience working with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into study designs and research questions.
• Excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively to different audiences.
• Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience:

• 5+ years of professional UX Research experience, having done multiple successful Projects.
• Passion for making high-quality experiences, and a demonstrable portfolio.
• Experience directing and mentoring designers.

Position Details:

• Job type: Full time, Contractual.
• Travel: Expected up to 70%.
• Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.