Senior User Experience Researcher

Source One Technical Solutions; Los Altos (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Source One Technical Solutions is hiring a Senior UX Researcher for a global autonomous vehicle client in Los Altos, CA. This onsite, six-month contract role involves defining user needs, leading UX studies, and collaborating with diverse teams to enhance human-centered design in vehicle technology.

Benefits

PTO and paid holidays

Flexible Spending Account for healthcare-related costs

Client covers costs for disability and life insurance

401k package

Qualifications

• Master's degree in relevant fields or equivalent experience.
• Experience with mixed methods and statistical analysis.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Design and conduct user studies to gather insights for multimodal interaction designs.
• Conduct needs assessments, usability studies, and prioritize features based on user needs.
• Present findings to stakeholders through reports and presentations.

Skills

Mixed-methods approaches

Statistical analysis

User studies design

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction

Cognitive Psychology or related field

Job description

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Base pay range

$85.00/hr - $105.00/hr

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Source One is a consulting services company and we’re currently looking for the following individual to work as a consultant with our direct client, a global autonomous vehicle company in Los Altos, CA This position will require you to be ONSITE.

This role will be onsite and available to candidates local to the Los Altos, CA area. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas or employ corp-to-corp

Title: Sr UX Researcher

Onsite (Mon-Fri, 40 hours)

Contract Duration: 6 months, with likely extension

w2 Rate: $85.00 - $105.00 per hour

Our Client is seeking a Senior UX Researcher to join its team in building a much more intelligent vehicle that places humans at the center of a more evocative and safer driving experience.

In this role, you'll lead the effort to define user needs and use cases and evaluate prototypes at various levels of design fidelity, including with HMI HW installed in a vehicle.

We're looking for someone with a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Human factors, or a related field, or equivalent experience. The ideal candidate has experience in mixed methods and is proficient in statistical analysis methods.

As a UX Researcher, you will:

• Design and conduct user studies to gather insights to guide iterations of multimodal interaction designs and HMIs.
• Propose and own the timeline of UX studies and work with the project owner, design team, engineering team, and TPM to ensure timely delivery of relevant insights to drive feature decisions.
• Conduct a needs assessment of customers, including competitor benchmarking, literature review, contextual inquiries, vehicle ride-alongs, interviews, and questionnaires.
• Work closely with the project owner and design team to prioritize use cases and features to meet customer needs.
• Conduct usability studies at various levels of fidelity depending on HMI SW/HW maturity and modality (i.e., online studies, clickable/paper prototypes, bench HW setups, full vehicle HW).
• Learn how to use all HMI SW/HW to independently execute user studies without significant technical support.
• Recruit and compensate internal TRI participants and work with a recruiter to bring in external participants.
• Work with and delegate tasks to a research assistant to aid in the preparation and execution of user studies.
• Present quantitative and qualitative user study results and insights via written reports and presentations to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Human factors, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with mixed-methods approaches
• Proficiency in statistical analysis methods
• Proven ability to work both independently and with a diverse team including designers, researchers, engineers, and managers
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly across different audiences
• Have a high level of initiative and self-motivation, work without direct supervision

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience conducting UX research in industry
• Familiarity with multimodal interaction systems
• Familiarity conducting studies with HMIs deployed on complex hardware in the field
• Familiarity working with AI systems
• PTO and paid holidays!
• Flexible Spending Account for healthcare-related costs
• Client covers all costs for short- and long-term disability and life insurance
• 401k package

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

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