Lead Usability Analyst (UX Researcher)

GSPANN Technologies, Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Educational assistance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

GSPANN Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Lead Usability Analyst (UX Researcher) to lead design research across web, apps, in-store digital experiences, and AI-enabled touchpoints.

You will advocate for user needs throughout the product development cycle and partner cross-functionally to shape strategy, improve client experiences, and evolve research practices with AI tooling. You will mentor researchers and designers, translate insights into actionable guidance, and help maintain rigorous

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience in UX research or related field.
• Experience leading complex research that informs product and cross-functional strategy.
• Experience using AI-enabled workflows to improve research quality, speed, or impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact studies end-to-end, selecting appropriate approaches.
• Conduct foundational research informing product and design strategy.
• Analyze data from qualitative studies and synthesize with quantitative data.
• Translate research into actionable insights and design recommendations.
• Connect research signals across projects to identify patterns and opportunities.
• Communicate insights through storytelling for partners from developers to executives.
• Mentor researchers and designers in user-centered processes.
• Evaluate emerging research methods and AI tools to improve value.

Skills

UX research

UX research portfolio

AI-enabled workflows

Mentoring teammates

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Headquartered in California, U.S.A., GSPANN is a leading provider of consulting and IT services to global clients. We specialize in helping clients transform their IT capabilities, optimize business practices, and drive operational efficiency across industries such as retail, high-technology, and manufacturing. With five global delivery centers and over 1,900 employees, we combine the personalized approach of a boutique consultancy with the extensive capabilities of a large IT services firm.

Role: Lead Usability Analyst (UX Researcher)

Location: REMOTE

Type: 12 months+

As a Lead Usability Analyst (UX Researcher), you’ll lead design research across web, apps, in-store digital experiences, and emerging AI-enabled touchpoints, advocating for user needs throughout the product development cycle. As part of the User Experience team, you’ll partner cross-functionally to shape strategy, improve client experiences, and evolve research practices with AI tooling—while maintaining rigor, participant trust, and client privacy.

Responsibilities:

Core research:

• Lead high-impact studies end-to-end, using sound research judgment to choose the right approach for the question at hand.
• Conduct foundational research to inform product and design strategy across complex, high-priority initiatives.
• Analyze data from qualitative studies including usability tests, interviews, participatory design, and heuristic evaluations; synthesize findings with quantitative and behavioral data.
• Translate research findings into actionable insights and specific design recommendations.
• Connect research signals across projects to identify patterns, synergies, and broader opportunities.
• Communicate insights through clear storytelling that makes complex research actionable for partners from developers to executives.

AI-enabled ways of working:

• Use approved AI tools to accelerate study setup, analysis, synthesis, desk research, survey drafting, and reporting while maintaining rigor, researcher judgment, and accountability for conclusions.
• Design research for AI-driven experiences, including agentic, conversational, and personalized AI features.
• Evaluate AI experiences for usability, trust, transparency, and the difference between what users say they want and how they actually behave.
• Contribute to responsible-AI practice in research — sound handling of participant data and PII, awareness of model limitations and bias, appropriate disclosure, and human validation of AI-generated outputs before they inform decisions.
• Help maintain a well-organized, easily accessible, and increasingly AI-queryable knowledge base of past research (e.g., searchable insight repositories), so prior learnings are discoverable and reusable across teams and tools.
• Connect research insights to shared product, design, and engineering workflows so evidence reaches partners where they work.
• Act as a thought partner in discovery, strategy, and problem framing.
• Navigate ambiguity across project priorities, concurrent workstreams, and problem spaces, bringing clarity to changing scope, user needs, and decisions.
• Mentor researchers and designers in a user-centered process; help raise the bar on methodology, AI-enabled practice, and insight quality across the team.
• Evaluate emerging research methods, AI tools, and ways of working; help the team adopt what adds value and phase out what does not.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of digital product research, with experience across mobile and/or omnichannel experiences.
• 5–8+ years of experience in UX research, product research, or a related research role.
• Practical experience using research tools, AI-enabled workflows, or emerging methods to improve research quality, speed, or impact.
• Experience leading complex research initiatives that influence product, design, and cross-functional strategy.
• Excels in a culture grounded in Sephora values: Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.

Working at GSPANN

GSPANN is a diverse, prosperous, and rewarding place to work. We provide competitive benefits, educational assistance, and career growth opportunities to our employees. Every employee is valued for their talent and contribution. Working with us will give you an opportunity to work globally with some of the best brands in the industry.

The company does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans and to treat qualified individuals without discrimination based on their physical or mental disability status. GSPANN is an equal opportunity employer for minorities/females/veterans/disabled.