Job Description

Akkodis is seeking a User Experience Researcher for a 12+ Months Contract position with our Direct Client located in San Antonio, TX (Hybrid) .

Pay Range: $50 - $52/hr on W2; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Job Description:

About you -- you thrive conducting research on low-fidelity designs as well as products that have already launched to identify improvement opportunities. You are comfortable working across disciplines to understand the stakeholder’s intent, nudge teams to think more holistically about their end users, and capture data to influence design and product decisions.

You can juggle multiple projects in different phases at once and have a natural curiosity to seek answers for current projects while also collecting data from users for longer term opportunities. You enjoy working in cross disciplinary teams and appreciate the opportunity to share your expertise to people who are unfamiliar with the value UXR can provide to teams.

While we are primarily focused on usability testing, we are open to leveraging early and exploratory research as well. You’ll work with a UX leader who understands how to leverage your research results and who will help you foster buy in to acting on your results. If you join our team, you’ll partner with product owners and engineers to make sure we understand user (customer and employee) needs as we design digital solutions.

Must Have

• Experience conducting online usability tests and other user research methods to inform design decisions for desktop or/and mobile applications.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum product development environment that is cross-functional and highly collaborative
• Online portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your approach to user research and how you present your results to your team.

Nice To Have

• Experience conducting in-person research with users and stakeholders.
• Experience identifying appropriate research methods to close knowledge gaps and explore opportunities; creating novel methods as needed.
• Strong judgement and confidence to inform product teams about how to use research to make better decisions.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Provide research and support to the customer-facing designs including usability testing, interviews, website and mobile app analytics and other research methods.
• Act as researcher Subject Matter Expert (SME) to inform the team's user cantered design decisions for high visibility on-going projects
• Create engaging reports of research results by using and updating our research templates.
• Plan research activities along an agile process to stay ahead of development work, so that engineering and development decisions are informed by the user.
• Summarize research results so that the actions needed to resolve the issues or take advantage of the revealed opportunities are clear and actionable.
• Understand technical trade-offs while maintaining a 'biases toward the user so that iterative improvements can be made over time.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, analysts, product managers and tech lead to implement solutions.
• Synthesize data across different research activities to identify trends and patterns that can further reduce user pain points and optimize our work processes (e.g., reduce finding the same type of usability problem repeatedly).
• Participate in quarterly planning activities by contributing research results and patterns.
• Remain current on user interface trends and programming techniques and suggest new tools and methods as necessary.
• May assist with user acceptance testing
• Work cross-organizationally with multiple teams and individuals
• Share expertise with other team members to grow their understanding of the importance of end users.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School or GED
• Deep experience with user research tools like UserTesting.com
• Experience conducting research and sharing results in a compelling manner to ensure issues are resolved and peers understand the results.
• Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to research - design - develop - and test new functionality or iterative improvements.
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• History of working with cross functional teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies and an understanding of how to insert research results throughout the product life cycle.
• Experience with communicating and working with business and technology stakeholders to help them understand end users’ needs and expectations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with the Electric and Gas Utility Industry
• Degree in human-computer interaction or a similar field from an accredited university, OR relevant business technical experience

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, please contact Ayush Garg at 610-735-6513 or ayush.garg@akkodisgroup.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client.

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit .

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, please contact Ayush Garg at 610-735-6513 or ayush.garg@akkodisgroup.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client.

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit .

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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