User Researcher

Capgemini; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital transformation firm in Greater London seeks a User Researcher to enhance design by leveraging user insights and AI. This role involves leading research efforts, working with various stakeholders, and ensuring that user-centric solutions are ethical and inclusive. Candidates should possess experience in applying both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The company emphasizes employee wellbeing and offers a dynamic environment focused on innovation and sustainable solutions.

Benefits

Wellbeing support programs

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• Experience with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards.
• Proficiency in leading user research and applying methods appropriately.
• Strong background across product or service lifecycle phases.

Responsibilities

• Lead research initiatives and suggest methodologies.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to inform design.
• Communicate findings to facilitate empathy and design decisions.

Skills

User research methodologies

Storytelling

Stakeholder management

Qualitative and quantitative analysis

Agile teamwork

Job description

About the job you're considering

We're building the next generation of design at Capgemini. As a User Researcher in our Experience Design team, you'll ensure that the voices, needs, and behaviours of users are at the heart of the services we design. You'll work across complex ecosystems, running research that shapes strategy, informs design, and influences delivery. You will join the growing Digital Customer Experience (DCX) practice within Capgemini.
We're looking for researchers who are curious, collaborative, and ambitious about the future of design. People who thrive in ambiguity, bring clarity through evidence, and can turn insight into action. Above all, you're passionate about how user research - combined with data and AI - can create fairer, more inclusive, and more sustainable services.

The role of the User Researcher is indeed evolving. As AI becomes more integrated into research, the job is shifting from a purely manual data collector to a strategic, human-centered analyst and storyteller. This is more than a research role-it's a chance to shape how organizations research and design in the age of AI. You'll take on challenges, grow your craft, and join a community pushing the boundaries of design.

Your role

• Lead the research for your team, using your expertise to suggest the best approaches and methodologies to capture the right user insights, with an eye towards leveraging AI tools to enhance efficiency and scale.
• Work closely with clients, stakeholders, product managers, designers, developers, and other User Researchers to plan and conduct high-impact research that helps develop a better understanding of our clients' users.
• Contribute to creating better products and services that solve user problems and meet their needs, ensuring AI-driven solutions are ethical, inclusive, and user-centric.
• Plan and run both traditional and AI-enhanced qualitative studies, including remote and in-person interviews, observations, diary studies, and usability studies.
• Integrate quantitative methods such as surveys to identify actionable insights. Collaborate with the analytics team and utilise AI-powered tools to enhance and scale qualitative insights, providing a holistic view.
• Consider the end-to-end user journey and external factors that may impact the user experience, including business, policy, and technical constraints.
• Communicate research findings and involve your team in analysis and synthesis to develop empathy with the users and enable evidence-based design decisions. You will also be skilled in interpreting and contextualising AI-generated insights, ensuring accuracy and ethical use.

Your skills and experience

• Experience and demonstrable domain knowledge working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles.
• Hands‑on experience leading user research, using qualitative, quantitative or mixed‑methods and knowing when to apply them appropriately.
• Experience across multiple phases of a product or service lifecycle, from discovery and exploration through to design and delivery.
• Strong storytelling, communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
• Experience working in multi‑disciplinary, agile teams where you've led the user research and influenced the design of a product or service through the insights you've gathered.
• Familiarity with using prototypes to test hypotheses, assumptions, and user journeys.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does 'Get The Future You Want ' mean for you?

You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will reimagine what's possible: creating value for the world's leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free‑thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end‑to‑end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.