Stride K12 - Topeka, KS
posted 3 months ago
As a User Experience Researcher at Stride, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the user experience across our product offerings. This position requires you to collaborate closely with various teams including marketing, product, design, engineering, and data partners. Your primary focus will be on understanding user experience research throughout the product design lifecycle, ensuring that user needs are at the forefront of product development. You will need to balance collaborative team dynamics with the autonomy and initiative required for individual ownership of projects. Managing multiple projects simultaneously at different phases of the product life cycle will be essential to your success in this role. Creativity in problem-solving and being an enthusiastic team player are key attributes that will help you thrive in this environment. In this role, you will independently lead research efforts in collaboration with stakeholders to support product development. You will work with cross-functional teams to clarify and define research objectives, employing a variety of research methodologies and tools to gain insights into user experiences, needs, goals, attitudes, and behaviors. Your responsibilities will also include managing research operational tasks such as participant recruiting and gift card distribution, as well as presenting research insights to key decision-makers. By equipping designers and product managers with insights about user experiences, you will inform product strategy and development decisions, ensuring that features and functionality meet user needs and address feedback. Your role will be crucial in creating empathy throughout the organization by continuously sharing insights about user needs, pain points, and experiences.