User Researcher - Newcastle

Accenture UK & Ireland; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Newcastle is seeking a User Researcher to join their UX Design team. The role involves conducting user research sessions and working closely with Agile teams. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience and be skilled at advocating for user needs. Benefits include a competitive salary and a comprehensive package. This is a hybrid role requiring some on-site work.

Benefits

25 days vacation

Annual performance bonus

Private medical insurance

3 extra days for charitable work

Qualifications

• Relevant experience as a User Researcher.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum teams.
• Comfortable advocating for users and guiding teams through user-centred design processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, recruiting and conducting user research sessions.
• Work with product owners to devise research strategies.
• Translate user data into actionable requirements.

Skills

User Research

Agile Scrum

Advocating for users

Job description

Overview

Role: User Researcher

Location: Newcastle

Hybrid Working: This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.

Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement.

As a User Researcher you will work with a team of creative and passionate UX Design specialists who are responsible for creating user-centred designs for digital products and services. This is a great opportunity to work across multiple different clients in a range of industries. As a member of our close-knit UX and Design team, you will champion the value of User-Centred Design across all products and services as part of delivery best practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead on planning, recruiting and conducting user research sessions to support the design and development of digital client services and projects
• Lead the research process from developing user recruitment briefs through to conducting sessions remotely or face-to-face, session analysis, report writing and playback to your team and stakeholders.
• Aligning user research activities to influence and support decision making
• Collaborate with product owners and service managers to devise appropriate research strategies that will generate focused insights.
• Convert concepts and emerging findings into high quality stimulus material.
• Work closely with designers and developers to turn user data and insights into actionable requirements that feed into prototype development, and influence product direction.
• Work as a part of Agile delivery teams and possess the hard and soft skills required to participate in design and delivery and be able to identify and progress client issues, whilst advocating for users.
• Work closely with our UX & Design Team, to share knowledge, learn new skills, and design transformational services.

Experience & Skills

• Relevant experience as a User Researcher
• You have worked as part of an Agile Scrum team
• You are always comfortable advocating for your users, and helping your team and stakeholders navigate a user-centred design process
• Some experience working with GDS standards would be beneficial

Set Yourself Apart

• Have a portfolio where you can show examples of User Journeys, Personas, User Research, Prototyping, User Testing and User Interface Design.

What’s in it for you?

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, annual performance bonus scheme (Career Level dependent), private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there may be requirements to spend time onsite with our partners to enable delivery of the outstanding services we are known for.

About Accenture

We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres.

With 740,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and build lasting value across their enterprises.

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Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.