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User Research Intern
Location
United States
Posted
11 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
As a User Research Intern, you’ll coordinate, run, and support qualitative research that shapes product decisions. You’ll learn how to plan sessions, moderate high-signal conversations, and turn messy qualitative input into crisp, usable insights. This role is hands-on, not watching from the sidelines.
What you’ll do
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Coordinate and moderate user research sessions (core)
- Plan and facilitate focus groups and/or interviews using our guides and structure
- Ask strong follow-ups (“ask, don’t tell”), stay neutral, and manage group dynamics
- Keep sessions focused, respectful, and high-signal
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Plan sessions with intention
- Translate research goals into a discussion guide and session flow (templates provided)
- Align questions to current product hypotheses and decisions
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Deliver clean research outputs (required)
- Leverage tech to transcript + structured summary (insights, quotes, implications, follow-ups)
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Work like a remote-first teammate
- Track tasks and deadlines in Asana
- Share a short weekly update (what you ran, what you learned, what’s next, blockers)
Benefits
- Skills that actually compound
- Moderation reps + coaching (how to ask better questions, stay unbiased, and go deeper than surface opinions)
- Synthesis practice: turning transcripts into patterns, insights, and recommendations
- Stronger communication: writing and presenting findings clearly
- Work alongside engineers, designers, and PMs
- Unlock your entrepreneurial DNA by collaborating with the founders
- Portfolio-ready proof: You’ll produce real research artifacts (sanitized summaries/insight memos you can reference in a portfolio)
- Career clarity: You’ll learn what it’s like to work on a real consumer product where research directly changes decisions
- Learn first-hand how to use LLMs, LWMs, and agents, skills that catapult you into your professional career
Qualifications
- 3rd/4th year student (Junior/Senior), 2nd year outliers
- Fluent English; comfortable leading live conversations
- Reliable follow-through (you hit deadlines and communicate early if blocked)
- Curious by default: you naturally ask “why?” and you’re not afraid of silence
Requirements
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Strong preference:
You’re genuinely excited about:
- AI and AR (and where consumer tech is heading)
- Gaming, social products, and mobile consumer apps
- Building a mission-driven product (not “another internship”)
- Remote-first execution: proactive communication, strong writing, self-management
- Tools comfort (important): Comfortable learning and using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Asana, shared docs, and forms.
- Nice to have: Any facilitation background (clubs, tutoring/teaching, community leadership, RA/peer mentor, etc.)
- Any qualitative research exposure: (class projects count)
- Nice to have (GREAT+): OpenClaw agentic process setup (agentic workflows/automation that speeds up research operations)
Time expectations
- 10–15 hours/week on average (flexible around classes)
- You’ll ramp into a steady rhythm of ~1–2 sessions/week once trained and consistent
Are you ready to embark on a learning experience that will enrich your professional life forever? We are curious to get to know you! Apply now!
Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
Employment Type
- Internship
Job Requirements
- 3rd/4th year student (Junior/Senior), 2nd year outliers
- Fluent English; comfortable leading live conversations
- Reliable follow-through (you hit deadlines and communicate early if blocked)
- Curious by default: you naturally ask “why?” and you’re not afraid of silence
- Strong preference: You’re genuinely excited about: AI and AR (and where consumer tech is heading)
- Gaming, social products, and mobile consumer apps
- Building a mission-driven product (not “another internship”)
- Remote-first execution: proactive communication, strong writing, self-management
- Tools comfort (important): Comfortable learning and using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Asana, shared docs, and forms.
- Nice to have: Any facilitation background (clubs, tutoring/teaching, community leadership, RA/peer mentor, etc.)
- Any qualitative research exposure: (class projects count)
- Nice to have (GREAT+): OpenClaw agentic process setup (agentic workflows/automation that speeds up research operations)
- Time expectations
- 10–15 hours/week on average (flexible around classes)
- You’ll ramp into a steady rhythm of ~1–2 sessions/week once trained and consistent
- Are you ready to embark on a learning experience that will enrich your professional life forever? We are curious to get to know you! Apply now!
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Employment Type
- Internship
Benefits
- Skills that actually compound
- Moderation reps + coaching (how to ask better questions, stay unbiased, and go deeper than surface opinions)
- Synthesis practice: turning transcripts into patterns, insights, and recommendations
- Stronger communication: writing and presenting findings clearly
- Work alongside engineers, designers, and PMs
- Unlock your entrepreneurial DNA by collaborating with the founders
- Portfolio-ready proof: You’ll produce real research artifacts (sanitized summaries/insight memos you can reference in a portfolio)
- Career clarity: You’ll learn what it’s like to work on a real consumer product where research directly changes decisions
- Learn first-hand how to use LLMs, LWMs, and agents, skills that catapult you into your professional career
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