Instagram Jobs London – Qualitative UX Researcher In Burnham

Overview

Position Title:Qualitative UX Researcher

Company: Instagram

Location: Burnham, UK

Job Description:

We employ a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to accomplish our goals, including surveys, focus groups, field studies, usability tests, and 1:1 interviews. We value a diverse range of perspectives and stem from many different backgrounds — geographically, culturally, educationally, philosophically. We come from industry and academia, with roots in anthropology, design research, economics, HCI, human factors, market research, political science, sociology, social computing, and social psychology, among others.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product and business teams to identify research topics
• Act as a thought leader in the domain of research, while advocating for the people who do or could use our products
• Conduct research using a wide variety of methods, and interpret analysis through the lens of UX,
• HCI, and social science
• Design studies that address both user behavior and attitudes
• Collaborate closely with other UX researchers to leverage and build upon knowledge
• Generate insights that both fuel ideation and evaluate designs
• Communicate results and illustrate suggestions in compelling and creative ways
• Mentor other researchers, and maintain our team’s high standard of work
• Work broadly across team to help identify trade-offs between short and long-term research goals and select right mix of projects to benefit team
• Partner with engineers, analysts, and other technical roles to create and share research
• Contribute to research team strategy within the organization
• Work cross-functionally with design, product management, content strategy, engineering, data science, and marketing

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a human behavior related field, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Sociology, Communication, Information science, Media studies, Computer Science, or Economics
• 7+ years’ relevant experience within user experience, applied research setting and/or product research and development
• Experience planning and executing complex research projects in a product group or business area, working across multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience identifying, initiating, and leading projects of large scope that contribute to the greater research/product team through mentoring, culture, subject matter, or research expertise
• Experience building meaningful cross-functional relationships
• Experience translating research findings into strategic narratives
• Effective communication skills with experience presenting to diverse audiences