Senior Design Researcher Cover Letter

Please consider me for the senior design researcher opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for creative role in design research projects through involvement in design trend research, consumer insight findings in design value, idea generation and solution finding, and create a “design DNA” aligned with brand strategy whilst creating/nurturing a design philosophy that powerfully communicates to senior leadership.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Defines and publishes research and synthesis best practices
• Collaborates to define and build a set of design research toolkits for teams to leverage
• Mentors and provides guidance to peers and teams
• Experience and passion for scoping murky or abstract research questions into manageable research plans and extracting actionable, roadmap-forming insights
• Experience in working collaboratively with product design, product management, data science/analytics, and engineering
• Enthusiasm for a team-oriented, collaborative, and energetic environment
• Proficient in human-centered design methodologies, like Design Thinking and Lean Startup
• Experience planning and running empathy research campaigns

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the senior design researcher position.

Previously, I was responsible for craft leadership and expertise to a talented team of UX designers, content strategists and information architects.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Experience working in consultancies or other professional services organizations, or Fortune 500 companies
• Passion for learning new technologies and understanding the needs of users across a wide range of technical abilities
• Doctorate in Education, Public Policy, or a Social Science discipline or comparable experience
• Knowledge of K-12 schools and colleges and current issues in K-16 education
• Experience with technology-supported educational innovations in schools and informal learning settings, including evaluations of technology-supported educational innovations
• Experience with design and implementation of quasi-experimental and experimental evaluation designs
• A passion to improve education for all students
• Commitment to collaborative work

In response to your job posting for senior design researcher, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for direction and oversight to ensure design research objectives are being met from the point of project initiation through research execution and findings delivery.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Experience working for/with top level innovation firms (consultants or corporate teams)
• Translating insights into action
• Adobe Creative Suite know-how
• Knowledge and exposure to a variety of industries
• Experience in the digital (adaptive web, app, and kiosk) space
• Experience working collaboratively within and across disciplines
• Conducting research throughout the entire product development lifecycle
• MA/MS or PhD preferred

I am excited to be applying for the position of senior design researcher. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for oversight to ensure work and deliverables (e.g., research protocols, methods execution, analysis, and reporting) adhere to DCX Design Research standards for valid and reliable research.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) capable of distilling research into actionable insights that create impact
• Confidence and experience running leading research sprint cycles, writing recruitment screens, discussion guides, synthesis and insight decks
• Solid understanding of practical benefits and limitations of digital technologies
• Stellar communication including interpersonal and writing skills, presenting and helping clients understand customer needs, attitudes, and behaviors through thoughtful and actionable research
• Experience working with Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Reporting – interpret qualitative and quantitative data from research, analyse data and extract actionable findings
• Feedback– organise feedback sessions around research, working with teams to help define solutions to issues identified
• Well-rounded understanding of user-centered design process, Knowledge of user experience principles

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the senior design researcher position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for thought leadership with respect to selecting design research methods to address the research questions posed by Digital Channels and Line of Business executives.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities, work well to deadlines, and understand and support client needs
• Track record of winning competitive bid contracts and grants
• Successful business and client development
• Added bonus would be expertise and hands on experience working with multiple data sets such as telemetry, sentiment, and unstructured data sets and combining them with qualitative insights to paint a holistic picture
• Experience with a statistical programming language / package like R (preferred), Python, or SPSS
• A strong interest (bordering on obsession) with Design and User Experience
• Create a holistic, relevant, impactful research plan that provides the broad market views and deep customer insights needed to define Office and M365 journeys/customer scenarios
• Continuously inform an engineering roadmap using customer data (qualitative and quantitative)