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Strategic UX Researcher II
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
We are seeking a Strategic UX Researcher II to join our multi-disciplinary team of over 80 researchers, engineers, designers, writers, and planners working on a breadth of AI experiences. You will work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to ideate, define, and deliver innovative AI powered solutions that empower people and teams to work more effectively and efficiently.
This role is intentionally conceptual, integrative, and pre-alignment. Its value lies in strategic research domain expertise, mapping uncertainty, and providing guidance to stakeholders on how to move forward.
- Work across organizational boundaries and disciplines with UX Designers, Planners, UX Researchers, Data Science, Product Managers, Marketers, Writers, and Engineers.
- Identify stakeholders across Microsoft and provide research-driven insights to influence product development.
- Tackle problems that require an understanding of complex technical constraints across multiple applications, platforms, and devices.
- Understand complex systems by looking at the relationships and interactions between their parts.
- Create research strategies and plans that leverage existing data and complement additional research.
- Define UX approaches, metrics, and work with others on research planning.
- Innovate and develop new approaches to measure user experience.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree in a relevant field AND 1+ year(s) User Experience Research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field AND 2+ years User Experience Research experience OR equivalent experience.
- Non-linear reasoning and pattern recognition.
- High comfort with ambiguity and operating with incomplete information.
- Hands-on research experience with skill in collecting and analyzing human behavioral data.
- Experience impacting product direction and experience design on products leveraging AI and large language models (LLMs).
- Proficient with futures or foresight research approaches.
- Utilize scenario modeling as a tool where needed.
- Experience designing and experimenting with approaches to model evaluation and the creation of quality rubrics.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of generative AI solutions.
- Ability to drive product vision and strategy based on user and market insights.
- Comfortable being ahead of the curve with new technologies.
- Ability to work productively with conceptual ambiguity and incomplete information.
- Deep familiarity with product design, prototyping, and coding.
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year.
- Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Job Requirements
- Master's Degree in a relevant field AND 1+ year(s) User Experience Research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field AND 2+ years User Experience Research experience OR equivalent experience.
- Non-linear reasoning and pattern recognition.
- High comfort with ambiguity and operating with incomplete information.
- Hands-on research experience with skill in collecting and analyzing human behavioral data.
- Experience impacting product direction and experience design on products leveraging AI and large language models (LLMs).
- Proficient with futures or foresight research approaches.
- Utilize scenario modeling as a tool where needed.
- Experience designing and experimenting with approaches to model evaluation and the creation of quality rubrics.
- Working knowledge of generative AI solutions.
- Ability to drive product vision and strategy based on user and market insights.
- Comfortable being ahead of the curve with new technologies.
- Ability to work productively with conceptual ambiguity and incomplete information.
- Deep familiarity with product design, prototyping, and coding.
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year.
- Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
