Research and Design Manager (46247)

LEVI, RAY & SHOUP, INC; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 82,656 - 103,320; Full time

Job summary

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc in Fort Worth, TX is seeking a Research and Design Lead for a contract-to-hire opportunity. You will guide UX research and design across projects, collaborating with product, engineering, and marketing teams to shape experiences for clients and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will conduct studies, mentor designers, and advocate for user-centered decisions while elevating UX maturity within agile environments.

Qualifications

• A Degree in related studies (Human Computer Interaction, Data Science, Interaction Design, Cognitive Science, Psychology, etc.), or equivalent real-world experience
• 5 - 10+ years in UX related role doing research and design
• Experience managing qualitative and quantitative research projects including multi-phase, multi-mode projects
• Ability to do design work in tools such as Figma (the primary one we use)
• Familiarity with KPIs and success metrics (NPS, CSAT, CES, SUS, etc.)
• Experience with survey and measurement tools (Qualtrics, UserTesting.com)
• Experience turning insights into action and telling compelling stories about client needs

Responsibilities

• Elevating and improving UX maturity on the teams you support
• Influencing stakeholders and agile teams to improve the user experience
• Conducting quantitative and qualitative studies from objectives to final reports
• Facilitating workshops
• Advocating the importance of user research and design in software development
• Communicating client wants and needs to the team
• Collaborating with business stakeholders, IT, researchers, marketing, and design leaders to translate research into business impact
• Strategizing research into end-to-end client journeys
• Working with UX and data teams to discover, learn, and validate market needs
• Creating and validating new designs through user feedback sessions
• Mentoring researchers and designers

Skills

UX leadership

Stakeholder influence

User research

Workshop facilitation

Career mentoring

Ambiguity tolerance

Communication

Education

HCI related degree

Tools

Figma

Qualtrics

UserTesting

Job description

Added Jul 27, 2026 Research and Design Manager (46247) Fort Worth, TX | Contract Apply

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Job Description

LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Research and Design Lead for a contract to hire opportunity with our client in Fort Worth, TX that will lead efforts on our various trains and help with design and research alongside other UXers
Our goal in Marketing is to effectively communicate what makes our company unique to the market we serve so that prospective clients will make our company the first place they turn in order to plan for their financial security. The User Experience Researcher & Designer will be a key a member of the Experience Design and broader Marketing team.
In this role, you will create understanding and empathy around user needs, stated and unstated, for the company, including designers, product managers, developers, and management. You will do so by conducting primary research, exploring the behaviors and motivations of our users through methods like field visits, surveys, usability testing, user interviews, card sorting, ethnography, and data analysis. Additionally, you will build designs and convey them along with research to stakeholders. A key metric for success in this role will be the ability to influence stakeholders.
The financial services industry is highly competitive, but we believe that our company provides a unique value proposition for our nations military families and therefore must sharpen our insights so that how we approach and communicate with clients and prospects makes our value proposition relevant.

Requirements:

• Elevating and improving our UX maturity on the teams you support
• Understanding and influencing stakeholders and agile teams to improve the user experience
• Assisting with quantitative and qualitative studies. This includes consulting with the business on study objectives and methodologies, creating the project plan and timeline, survey creation and pretesting, managing any contractors, leading analysis, and writing and delivering final reports
• Assisting in facilitating workshops
• Evangelizing the importance of user research & design in all phases of software development, from concept to release
• Assisting in communicating with all of the companies wants and needs of the client
• Collaborating with the business stakeholders, IT, other researchers, marketing, and design leaders to ensure research translates into business impact
• Assisting with strategizing research into end-to-end client journeys
• Working closely with UX and data teams and using research methodologies to discover, learn and validate needs within various market opportunities
• Creating & validating new designs through ad-hoc or formalized user feedback sessions with internal users or clients
• Mentor researchers/designers

Qualifications:

Education

• A Degree in related studies (Human Computer Interaction, Data Science, Interaction Design, Cognitive Science, Psychology, etc.), or equivalent real-world experience

Work Experience

• 5 - 10+ years in UX related role doing research and design
• Experience managing qualitative and quantitative research projects including multi-phase, multi-mode projects.
• Ability to do design work in tools such as Figma (the primary one we use)
• Familiarity with current and emerging KPIs, benchmarks and success metrics (Net Promoter Score, Customer Satisfaction Scores, Customer Effort Score, System Usability Score, etc.)
• Experience with survey and measurement tools (Ex: Qualtrics, UserTesting.com)
• Experience turning insights in to action, with the ability to tell a compelling story about the wants and needs of our clients
• Experience turning insights in to action, with the ability to tell a compelling story about the wants and needs of our clients

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A passion for leading, career growth, and a strong ability to motivate others
• Caring and compassion for others including a commitment to psychological safety
• Promoting UX maturity and advocate for the value it provides the organization
• Knowledge of UX Trends
• Must be comfortable communicating with and influencing leaders at all levels
• Genuine passion for problem-solving, are comfortable with ambiguity, and rise to challenges with creativity
• Must be comfortable working closely with passionate researchers, designers, product owners, scrum masters, technologists, marketers, and data scientists that all care deeply about driving our customer experience vision
• Takes a collaborative approach to projects, continually holding the users perspective while balancing a diverse range of stakeholder objectives

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (nice to have)

• Military experience

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If you receive a suspicious offer or communication claiming to be from us, do not share any personal or financial information. You can notify us using our contact page at Contact Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc .