Microsoft Looking For Senior Researcher, Generative (Remote) at Atlanta, GA Full Time

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We are seeking a Senior Researcher on our UX design team, focused on generative research to drive efforts to understand our customers, and improve their experience. You will drive exploratory research efforts across our web product, to help us better understand our users, their journey, and provide insights and recommendations for improvement. This is an opportunity to build a new function in our team that focuses on uncovering a deeper understanding of our customers. Join our team, and become part of something meaningful and impactful to others. This is a remote role.

We’d Love To Hear From You If

You are highly self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit, willing to dig in

You have an affinity toward behavioral economics as second nature in your thinking

You can communicate clearly, and have a high degree of emotional intelligence

Are a good story teller, with a high degree of emotional intelligence

You can embrace change in growth environments

Responsibilities

Build and execute impactful research plan(s) that provide the deep customer insights needed to impact strategy and UX

Collaborate closely with Designers and Product Managers to identify and prioritize research needs

Craft and execute research plans to support early stage generative and discovery work

Work closely with our discovery team, as a startup within the larger org, to identify customer behavior, hypothesize viable solutions, then test for behavior changes

Conduct user interviews, and perform quick but thorough data analysis to create insightful and actionable findings

Practice deep customer empathy to uncover insights that change the way we think of our customer’s world and how they interact with it

Define and measure UX approaches, and work with stakeholders on research planning

Assist and educate UX designers in crafting and executing usability research and user validation testing

Be an advocate for the user in everything you do

Qualifications

6+ years of experience conducting qualitative, and mixed-method research and analysis, or equivalent experience

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively

Ability to self-manage with little oversight, and juggle multiple projects at once

Proven experience designing and conducting a range of formative and iterative research methods

Not required, but nice to have:
Familiarity with industry standard design tools such as Figma

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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