Senior User Researcher — 6-Month Contract, High-Impact

Market Partner Scandinavia; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Market Partner Scandinavia is seeking a Senior User Researcher to join on a fixed-term, 6-month full-time contract, delivering senior research capacity across high-priority bets for a leading audio streaming service.

You will work with Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering to ensure human-centered research informs product direction, with autonomy to shape projects and communicate insights to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• An expert researcher with extensive industry experience and a degree or equivalent in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, or a Social Science.
• Comfortable adapting quickly to shifting workflows as AI UR capabilities increase and improve.
• Skilled across a wide range of User Research methods - ethnography, contextual inquiry, usability.
• Usability testing, concept testing - and comfortable blending them with quantitative or behavioural data.
• Able to hit the ground running in a new environment, quickly building context and trust with cross-functional partners.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and breaking down unstructured challenges into actionable learning plans.
• An excellent communicator, confident with senior audiences and at ease in dynamic discussion, debate, and live reasoning.
• A strong systems thinker with deep UX expertise, able to influence scalable, cohesive experiences

Responsibilities

• Define, plan, and conduct research across mobile experience initiatives, covering the full range of methods from generative to evaluative
• Deliver evidence-based insights that guide product strategy and UX direction in fast-moving, high-stakes bets
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering to ensure work is human-centred and grounded in real user needs
• Represent research with senior stakeholders - bringing findings to life through clear storytelling, workshops, and live discussion
• Synthesize across projects where relevant, connecting insights to build a coherent picture of user needs
• Contribute to the health and capability of the broader UR team

Skills

Qualitative research

Quantitative data

Cross-functional collaboration

UX research methods

Education

Degree in HCI / Cognitive Psychology / Social Science

Job description

Market Partner Scandinavia is seeking a Senior User Researcher to join on a fixed-term, 6-month full-time contract, delivering senior research capacity across high-priority bets for a leading audio streaming service.

You will work with Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering to ensure human-centered research informs product direction, with autonomy to shape projects and communicate insights to senior stakeholders.