Senior User Experience Researcher

What inspires you? This is the question that drives most career decisions.

Is it working with a fantastic team that is dedicated to a common goal? Is it the ability to make a significant impact on the success of a product and company? Perhaps it is to contribute to a product that ignites the creativity of content creators, small businesses, educators, and schoolchildren worldwide?

Here at WeVideo, you can do that and more. We have an immediate opening for a Senior User Experience Researcher to help create our next-generation products and features. We believe that everyone has a story to tell. Join WeVideo and begin the next chapter in your story with us.

Overview

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and user-friendly products at WeVideo. As the User Experience Researcher, reporting to the Head of UX and Research, you will partner with design and product leadership to identify and prioritize research initiatives that can impact our strategy, and help us create useful, usable, and delightful experiences.

In this role, you will:

• Represent the voice of the user throughout the whole product development process, working closely with a geographically-distributed team.
• Lead UXR across multiple projects and verticals.
• Conduct end-to-end qualitative and/or quantitative user research studies (e.g., planning, executing, analysis, etc.)
• Analyze and translate research findings for product and business impact.
• Communicate your research insights through written reports and live presentations.
• Help build a growing UXR team.
• Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship on UXR best practices across a multi-disciplinary organization.
• Evolve research operations and processes.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Human Factors/Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• 5-8 years of industry experience conducting research
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
• Experience working within an agile/lean product process.
• Relevant experience conducting a variety of research helping all aspects of business and product development -from foundational to evaluative research
• Strong understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during the product development process.
• Experience in User-Centered Design methodologies, including need-finding interviews, contextual inquiry, heuristic analyses, user testing, and iterative design cycles

Nice to have:

• Master's degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Human Factors/Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field
• Experience leading and growing UXR teams.

Why you might like working here:

• We're a small, close-knit team that enjoys working and learning from each other.
• People stick around. Some of your future colleagues have been for over 8+ years.
• Our users love us; just take a look at the tweets shared by teachers.
• As part of a growing UXR team at WeVideo, you'll have a lot of opportunities to build and scale research to make an impact in the company

About WeVideo:

WeVideo is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based video creation platform that is the digital editing and storytelling choice of more than 22 million consumers, students, businesses, and third-party media solutions. WeVideo is available from virtually any computer or device at home, school, work, or on-the-go to capture, edit, view, and share videos. Built for the future in HTML5, WeVideo brings maximum speed, responsiveness, security, and expandability to browser-based video editing. WeVideo is a Google Play Editors' Choice selection with more than 9 million downloads to date. WeVideo is also the exclusive digital storytelling solution of Google's Education Creative Bundle for Chromebooks and a Microsoft Education Partner. More than 6,500 schools use WeVideo to enhance classroom learning.