Senior UX Researcher- AI / Pharmaceutical Life Science

Square One Resources; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Senior UX Researcher in London to shape AI experiences for pharmaceutical life science. You will conduct user research, collaborate with teams, and enhance digital experiences. The ideal candidate has extensive research experience and a background in AI tools and pharmaceutical domains. This is a hybrid role with an attractive contract rate.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in user research applying a variety of methods.
• Ability to work in a complex environment and adapt quickly.
• Strong presentation and collaborative skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide UX research support to the innovation team.
• Plan and conduct impactful research with stakeholders.
• Share research findings widely and maintain research operations.

Skills

Experience in conducting research for AI tools

Experience working in scientific or pharmaceutical domains

Discovery-focused generative user research

Designing qualitative and quantitative experiments

Jobs to be Done frameworks

Planning, conducting user research

Developing AI Tools

Examining analytics data

Analyzing and presenting findings

Collaborating with colleagues

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Senior UX Researcher - AI / Pharmaceutical Life Science - London
Location: Hybrid - Ideally once a week in the London (City) office. Once a month can be considered if not living locally.
Salary/Rate: Up to £690 a day Inside IR35
Start Date: October 2025
Job Type: 6-month contract (with scope to extend)

Company Introduction

We are looking for a Senior UX Researcher to help shape great AI experiences for those working in pharmaceutical life science research & early drug discovery.

You will work closely with Product and Tech squads, providing design thinking, a human-centric approach, and the expertise to imagine and deliver great digital experiences.

In this role you will be specifically working on the development of an AI tool to enhance pharmaceutical life science research.

The mission is to understand the complex needs our customers and design solutions using innovative technologies to serve their purpose.

• Experience in conducting research for AI tools will be an advantage.
• Experience in working in scientific or pharmaceutical life science domains will be an advantage.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Providing UX research support and guidance to our innovation team.
• Planning, conducting and delivering impactful research, working closely with UX Designers, Product Managers, team members and stakeholders.
• Explore the problem space from different angles and creatively adapt different techniques to work towards solutions.
• Share your research findings widely.
• Be actively involved in the UX team, including by attending and contributing to regular meetings such as research support sessions.
• Undertake activities necessary to conduct research ops efficiently, including maintaining our research repository.

Required Skills/Experience

• Have extensive experience working on discovery-focused generative user research, ideally using a Jobs to be Done methodology.
• Be able to design qualitative and quantitative experiments to suit the research question, project stage and timescales
• Be confident working in a complicated environment and be able to get up to speed quickly
• Have experience working on 'jobs to be done' frameworks
• Have experience planning, conducting and delivering user research applying a range of methods such as UX surveys, interviews and usability testing
• Have experience working on early-stage discovery research projects
• Extensive experience developing AI Tools to enhance research
• Be able to examine analytics data to inform research strategy and qualitative insights
• Analyse and present findings, giving recommendations for future iterations and better UX, based on research outcomes
• Collaborate with colleagues in a wide range of roles, and present your research in an engaging way to different audiences

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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