Principal UX Researcher, Moveworks

Moveworks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 259,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Variable compensation

Health plans

401(k) plan with company match

ESPP

Matching donations

Flexible time away plan

Family leave programs

Job summary

Moveworks is seeking a Principal Experience Researcher, AI to transform complex user behavior into actionable product direction. You will blend qualitative insights with quantitative analysis to inform AI-driven experiences and model evaluation.

You’ll bridge end-user experiences and machine learning systems, translating needs and feedback into measurable signals to improve usability, trust, and outcomes across the product. Collaboration with technical partners is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience integrating AI into work processes and decision-making.
• 10+ years of professional experience in user experience research, product research, human-computer interaction, behavioral science, or related field.
• Strong grounding in qualitative and quantitative research methods with sampling, survey design, experimentation, bias, validity, and data interpretation.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large or complex behavioral datasets and translate findings into actionable product insights.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills suitable for diverse audiences.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills across product managers, engineers, and designers.
• A portfolio or work samples showing research process, analytical capabilities, and impact on product decisions and user outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize opportunities by linking large-scale behavioral data with qualitative insights to shape product strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Set research strategy and prioritize portfolio around high-impact user and business questions.
• Translate user needs and behaviors into signals that inform AI/ML design, development, and evaluation.
• Define evaluation strategy for AI-powered experiences with frameworks and shared success measures.
• Investigate model and experience failures, identify recurring patterns, and suggest improvements.
• Serve as a strategic partner to product, design, engineering, data science, and ML leaders to align teams on evidence-based product direction.
• Evaluate concepts and product experiences from discovery to launch and continuous improvement.
• Communicate findings through narratives, visualizations, artifacts, and tailored recommendations.

Skills

AI in workflows

Data analysis

Research methods

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Research portfolio

SQL

Python

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Company Description

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Job Description

Team & Role:

Moveworks is looking for a mixed-methods Principal Experience Researcher, AI to turn complex user behavior into clear, actionable product direction. You’ll combine qualitative research with quantitative analysis to understand not only what people do, but why they do it.
You’ll serve as a critical bridge between end-user experiences and the machine learning systems that power them. By translating user needs, behaviors, and feedback into measurable signals, you’ll help teams evaluate and improve model performance—and ensure our AI creates experiences that are useful, trustworthy, and intuitive.
This is a generalist research role for someone comfortable working across methods and stages of product development. You don’t need an engineering background, but you should be curious about how AI systems work and able to collaborate effectively with technical partners.

What you get to do in this role

• Identify and prioritize opportunities across the end-user journey by connecting large-scale behavioral data with qualitative insights, shaping product strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Set research strategy and prioritize the research portfolio around high-impact user and business questions, selecting approaches that balance scope, depth, speed, and confidence to guide investment decisions.
• Translate user needs and behaviors into clear signals that inform the design, development, and evaluation of AI and machine learning systems.
• Define the evaluation strategy for AI-powered experiences, establishing frameworks, quality standards, and shared success measures across product, design, and machine learning teams that connect model performance to usability, relevance, trust, and user outcomes.
• Investigate model and experience failures, identify recurring patterns, and recommend improvements across the product and underlying systems.
• Serve as a strategic partner to product, design, engineering, data science, and machine learning leaders, framing critical questions, challenging assumptions, and aligning teams on evidence-based product direction.
• Evaluate new concepts and product experiences throughout development—from early discovery and prototyping through launch and continuous improvement.
• Communicate findings through clear narratives, data visualizations, research artifacts, and recommendations tailored to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Qualifications

What You Bring:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 10+ years of professional experience in user experience research, product research, human-computer interaction, behavioral science, or a related field.
• Strong grounding in qualitative and quantitative research methods, including generative and evaluative approaches, with sound judgment in sampling, survey design, experimentation, bias, validity, and data interpretation.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large or complex behavioral datasets, including product usage logs, and translate findings into actionable product insights.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to make complex findings clear to different audiences.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, with experience building alignment across product managers, engineers, and designers.
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your research process, analytical capabilities, and influence on product decisions and user outcomes.

The nice to have:

• Experience conducting lean UX research in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience researching AI-powered, machine learning, conversational, search, or recommendation experiences.
• Experience developing or improving evaluation systems, benchmarks, rubrics, or quality metrics for AI products.
• Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation platforms, data visualization tools, or statistical analysis software.
• Experience using SQL, R, Python, or similar tools. Technical fluency is valued, but hands-on programming experience is not required.

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $221,200 - $387,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

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