User Experience Research Assistant

Sequester; United States; Remote; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Async-first collaboration across time

Global hiring

Job summary

Sequester is seeking a UX Research Assistant to support user research for a privacy-first encrypted vault product for personal photos and videos. You will schedule interviews, synthesize feedback, and identify usability friction in sensitive areas.

Remote-friendly with async collaboration across time zones. You''ll maintain a research repository and help turn insights into actionable recommendations for Product and Design teams.

Qualifications

• Empathy and neutrality when users describe sensitive use cases.
• Strong note-taking and synthesis skills.
• Experience coordinating or assisting UX research studies.

Responsibilities

• Recruit participants for moderated and unmoderated studies across a range of personas.
• Take structured notes and tag themes such as onboarding, backup anxiety, and sharing fears.
• Assist with usability test scripts and prototype walkthroughs.
• Maintain a research repository accessible to Product and Design.
• Summarize findings into actionable recommendations rather than raw transcripts.

Skills

Empathy

Neutrality

Note-taking

Synthesis

Observation

Tools

Zoom

Maze

UserTesting

Job description

Role overview

Support the user research practice behind a privacy-first encrypted vault for personal photos and videos, where listening to users shapes flows that require trust and clarity. The role focuses on scheduling interviews, synthesizing feedback, and spotting usability friction in the most sensitive parts of the product.

Responsibilities

• Recruit participants for moderated and unmoderated studies across a range of personas.
• Take structured notes and tag themes such as onboarding, backup anxiety, and sharing fears.
• Assist with usability test scripts and prototype walkthroughs.
• Maintain a research repository accessible to Product and Design.
• Summarize findings into actionable recommendations rather than raw transcript dumps.

Requirements

• Experience as a UX research assistant or in customer research coordination.
• Empathy and neutrality when users describe sensitive use cases.
• Strong note-taking and synthesis skills.
• Comfort with remote research tools such as Zoom, Maze, UserTesting, or similar platforms.

Benefits and work setup

Remote-friendly position with global hiring and an async-first collaboration model across time zones.