Research Lead

Immediate need for a talented Research Lead. This is a 12+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in New York, NY (Hybrid).

Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID : 24-44126

Pay Range : $80 - $85 / hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities :

• Conduct user research at all stages from discovery to validation, using a variety of methods to understand our customers and their relationship to our products
• Approach business and customer problems with user goals in mind
• Understand and apply the right quantitative and qualitative methods given the circumstances
• Actively monitor and analyze research, data, and trends from internal sources, academic institutions, and industry reports to inform and improve our approach
• Collaborate to define intent, development, testing, and refinement of prototypes, as well as drive for future design and strategy based on metrics (quantitative and qualitative) gathered
• Distill findings into clearly articulated and actionable insights that stakeholders can use
• Present research plans and findings with various audiences, from designers to
• business executives to get buy-in
• Guide teams on how best to apply findings using illustrative frameworks
• Create energy and investment in research by sharing early and often, to different audiences
• Help designers and non-designers understand and apply research findings
• Effectively manage multiple stakeholders’ interests, priorities, and expectations and lead teams to craft a rigorous and relevant research agenda

Key Requirements and Technology Experience :

• Key Skills; Design Research, data management, blueprints.
• Research Lead-lead research programs
• Stakeholder management (Proactively guide stakeholders)
• User Research Experience in highly technical space / data management / AI Background
• Strong communication
• Service Blueprints
• Keywords they are looking in resume ( data lifecycle management, data security)
• Data Management background- Nice to have
• At least 5 years' experience as a Design Researcher in a business or consulting capacity
• At least 2 years' experience managing project teams
• Have a track record of working with teams of various stakeholders, including designers, researchers, strategists, product managers, tech partners and senior leadership
• Understand the difference between Design Research and Market Research and have experience collaborating on initiatives between these teams
• Have experience guiding teams to employ the best research methods for the problem, employing strategies to address stakeholder push back
• Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of usability testing and user experience research
• Experience teaching : design thinking, human centered design, design research.

Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.

If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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