Senior UX Researcher – 6 month contract

Embedded Shishya; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 83,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

PointClickCare is seeking a Senior UX Researcher for a 6‑month contract to shape strategic and tactical product decisions through mixed‑method research. You will partner with Product and UX Design to recruit participants, select methodologies, and synthesize insights that inform design and development across healthcare workflows.

The role requires 5+ years of UX research experience, a related bachelor’s degree, and the ability to travel about four times per year.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in psychology, statistics, human–computer interaction, information systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of UX research experience with strong qualitative and quantitative skills.
• Ability to create research strategy and discovery plans; recruit, conduct studies, and synthesize findings.
• Experience with multiple research and survey tools (Dovetail, User Interviews, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics; Pendo).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to influence stakeholders and translate insights into product decisions.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites about four times per year.
• Experience using AI tools like Claude and Microsoft Copilot in research workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end research activities, including participant recruitment, discussion guide development, study facilitation, analysis, and sharing findings.
• Translate customer feedback and research data into actionable insights for Product, UX Design, Engineering, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and lead workshops to drive strategy and design decisions.
• Partner with Product and UX Design from discovery to delivery to ensure user-centered outcomes.
• Engage with internal SMEs to strengthen personas, journeys, and use cases and promote best practices in research.

Skills

5+ years UX research

Research strategy

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

AI tools (Claude, Copilot)

Travel to client sites

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in psychology / HCI / information systems or related field

Tools

Dovetail

User Interviews

Salesforce

SurveyMonkey

Qualtrics

Pendo

Job description

Job Title: Senior UX Researcher – 6 month contract

Location: Canada – Remote / Mississauga, ON – Hybrid

Term: 6 month contract

Travel to Office expectations

For Remote Roles: If this role is remote, there will be in-office events that will require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These will include, but not limited to, onboarding, team events, semi-annual and annual team meetings.

For Hybrid Roles: If this role is Hybrid, there will be an expectation to reside within commutable distance to the office/location specified in the job listing. This will include, but not limited to, weekly/bi-weekly/monthly events in the office with your specific team. This is a requirement for this role.

At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company that’s founder-led and privately held, we empower our employees to push boundaries, innovate, and shape the future of healthcare.

With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400+ integrated partners, our platform serves over 30,000 provider organizations, making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development, ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting impact. Recognized by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, we offer flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work.

At PointClickCare, we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity, productivity, and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows, collaboration is enhanced, outcomes are improved, and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission, and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey.

Join us in redefining healthcare — so it doesn’t just survive, it thrives. To learn more about PointClickCare, check out Life at PointClickCare and connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn.

About the Team

The UX Research team partners directly with Product and UX Design from early opportunity discovery and ideation through delivery. This role supports the Integrated Care portfolio, including products serving acute and payer markets and healthcare and financial workflows such as Prior Authorization and Concurrent Review. The team keeps product and design decisions moving with timely, actionable customer insights.

Position Summary

The Senior UX Researcher drives strategic and tactical product decisions by planning and conducting research, usability studies, and mixed-method discovery. Working directly with Product and UX Design, this role identifies the right participants, recommends fit‑for‑purpose methodologies, recruits and conducts studies, synthesizes qualitative and quantitative findings, and translates insights into strategy and design recommendations. The Senior UX Researcher also provides project leadership and communicates research decisions and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and UX Design at the beginning of projects, opportunities, and ideation to formulate discovery plans, identify the right customers and stakeholders to engage, and recommend appropriate research methodologies.
• Lead end-to-end research activities, including participant recruitment, discussion guide development, study facilitation, analysis, synthesis, and sharing findings. Methods may include surveys, in-depth interviews, remote feedback, usability testing, and prototype-based research when appropriate.
• Conduct user outreach, use‑case discovery, persona and journey mapping, validation, and usability studies using unbiased and standardized research practices.
• Translate customer feedback and research data into actionable insights and strategy and design recommendations for Product, UX Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders.
• Lead or participate in workshops, communicate strategic research decisions to leadership, and provide project leadership to researchers and designers on assigned initiatives.
• Collaborate with internal subject matter experts, Customer Success, Data Science, and Customer Insights to strengthen understanding of personas, journeys, and use cases and encourage adoption of research best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a UX researcher or in a similar customer‑focused research role.
• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, statistics, human‑computer interaction, information systems, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to create research strategy and discovery plans, develop discussion guides, select methodologies, conduct interviews and studies, and quickly analyze and synthesize findings.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills, with the ability to translate real user feedback into insights that drive user‑centred decisions for broad audiences.
• Experience with research and survey tools such as Dovetail, User Interviews, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, and analytics or product‑experience platforms such as Pendo.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain strategic decisions, present findings, persuade, negotiate, and articulate alternative approaches.
• Ability to travel to customer sites on a limited basis, approximately four times per year.
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot to enable day‑to‑day research work.

Preferred Experience

• Experience researching healthcare, medical, regulated, payer, acute‑care, or financial applications.
• Experience collaborating in Figma and Miro; this role contributes to prototype‑based research but is not expected to create prototypes.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Product, UX Design, Engineering, Customer Success, Data Science, Customer Insights, and internal subject matter experts to advance user‑centred outcomes.

The Canadian hourly pay range for this position is $60.00 - $66.68 CAD per hour. Our pay ranges are determined by job and level. The range displayed reflects the target for new‑hire pay across all Canada locations. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by job‑related skills and knowledge, relevant experience including professional and lived experience, and/or work location. Your recruiter can share more information about our total rewards package during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of PointClickCare to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law. PointClickCare welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please contact [e-mail] should you require any accommodations.

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