Lead Researcher Job Description
Lead researcher
provides comprehensive consultation to management and staff related to user research, usability testing, surveys, interviews, work studies, and heuristic evaluations.
Lead Researcher Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Developing & maintaining a deep understanding of our target audiences, their behaviours, needs, goals, passions and expectations and disseminating this knowledge throughout the business
Managing a program of research across the MR PORTER brand’s products, aligning initiatives with business needs, maximising research investment and helping stakeholders to prioritise activities
Conducting tactical and strategic research projects from scoping through to implementation, creatively making use of the most appropriate methods and tools
Translating research findings into easily communicable artefacts, , user journeys, videos, storyboarding, to bring findings to life and obtain buy in
Helping the teams to deliver insights into designs, experiences and communication by using research to inform priorities and support innovation
Working closely with the Experience team, Head of eCommerce, Product Owners, Marketing, CRM, Product Merchandising, Buying, Studio and other teams across the business, ensuring research is delivered to requirements and encouraging stakeholder participation throughout the research lifecycle
Managing relationships with 3rd party vendors
To be a passionate research evangelist, championing the customer throughout the organization
Providing UX and Customer research thought-leadership and guidance within the UX eCommerce team, Marketing and across the business
Discover and mitigate vulnerabilities in sensitive Critical Infrastructure / Key Resource Domains (CI/KR)
Lead Researcher Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Lead Researcher
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: LEAN, CUA
Education for Lead Researcher
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the lead researcher job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Psychology, Design, Computer Science, Engineering, Computer, Human-Computer Interaction, Anthropology, Sociology, Cognitive Science, Graduate
Skills for Lead Researcher
Desired skills for lead researcher include:
Machine learning techniques
When
Why and how to apply them
Architects
Competitive testing
Content strategists
Designers
Experience with field studies
Formative & summative usability research methods
Heuristic evaluations
Desired experience for lead researcher includes:
The strong candidate will have a background in software and hardware techniques for RAS and storage
PhD plus 5+ years of experience or MS with 7+ years of experience in related field
Help clients prioritize what they want to learn from user research
Help teams strategically decide what kinds of users to invite to participate
Draft recruiting screeners, and help clients settle on non-leading research scenarios
Facilitate sessions in as neutral and natural a way as possible
Lead Researcher Examples
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Lead Researcher Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a lead researcher. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lead researcher
- Research classified and unclassified literature for emerging technologies that may provide opportunities for new operations, to identify public internet access points (including internet cafes), and to recommend approaches to increase collection
- Write computer code to prototype a solution
- Coordinate the Barrier Testing portion of our Analytical Services Group (ASG)
- Work as team member with ASG on analytical related research projects utilizing a variety of material testing techniques under supervision of Senior Researcher and Scientists
- Monitors and maintains specific instruments through procedural setup, startup and shut down
- Utilize established test methods and create new methods (where practicable), write SOPs, write and assess JHA’s, etc, in order to provide for and participate in a safe work environment
- Utilize and maintain lab notebook for all work performed, keep and update records in a database and write understandable reports to communicate results with customers
- Build and maintain relationships by supporting other Researchers and Scientists in R&D
- Support Business Units in efforts toward production efficiencies, projects, quality issues and process evaluation to increase profitability and reduce cost
- Serve as team member on an appropriate Safety Committee
Qualifications for lead researcher
- Be thorough, and actually enjoy watching all of a study’s footage, so we’re not like all the other guys who just type up bullet points from memory and never get past the obvious
- Create affinity groupings of observed behaviors or insights and determine findings and recommendations
- Edit and produce highlight reels
- Document and communicate findings and recommendations
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of trends and research in ease-of-use
- Help manage state-of-the-art eyetracking usability lab, including Tobii hardware and software, audio system, remote viewing, MORAE, Camtasia
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead researcher. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead researcher
- Being a contributor to the Group's UX community, sharing leanings across the group and collaborating on shared initiatives
- Apply and reshape prototypes in pioneering engagements based on clients’ needs and drive toward successful deployment in the clients’ IT environment
- Continuously learn new technology areas that are mission-aligned to the R&D group
- Take on the role of primary writer and researcher on high-value content projects
- Create research-driven content on marketing, customer care, advertising, social media, and other trends in business
- Work with product marketing, design, and external partners to generate new ideas and and content opportunities
- Own the full lifecycle of key projects – from ideation, to production, to go-to-market
- Identify user interface requirements
- Planning and conducting ethnographic/field research, surveys, competitive usability analyses, card sorts, Agile testing
- Usability test planning, execution, and analysis
Qualifications for lead researcher
- Live logs
- You know the difference between data, information and intelligence
- We're a globally distributed team, so you're ready to hop on our IRC channels and Chatter Groups and join in
- You like humans 1's and 0's
- Blogging is something you do, you have done, or you will in the future
- Ideally, you've done all of the above at scale
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Our company is hiring for a lead researcher. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead researcher
- Assist professionals and Senior Management Team with reports, presentations and other special projects
- Provide strategic and tactical insights that drive and inform design and development for Sales Cloud
- Visa expenses if applicable, based on actual receipted cost
- Works closely with in-country team on content development, issue resolution, client support, and process development
- Determines the strategic direction, vision and scope of needs for the Swedish healthcare market
- Works across teams to design and implement clinical decision support processes and applications to meet the needs and requirements of the Swedish market
- Works with third-party drug content provider to incorporate drug content into clinical decision support applications
- Understands and can articulate the current competitive landscape
- Interpret and analyze medical literature to create clinical content
- Assimilate clinical data and medical reference materials into accurate, referential text and clinical decision support content
Qualifications for lead researcher
- Recognized as a leader in their space
- Ability to go beyond analysis and synthesizing research materials
- Thorough with data and disciplined in drawing conclusions
- Proficient in basic office programs such as Word/Google Docs
- Ensure alignment between leadership's goals, direction, and priorities for their area and the features currently being developed
- Rallying a small team and coordinating activities to reach an objective is your forte, you have demonstrable experience managing and leading a small team (whilst still getting your own hands dirty)
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Our company is hiring for a lead researcher. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for lead researcher
- Identify and leverage appropriate drug content resources
- Manage projects and provide functional oversight into project management activities - Participate in client support activities and documentation
- Provide strategic and tactical insights that drive and inform design and development for Search
- Provide highly advanced technical leadership to cyber security projects
- Develop new program growth opportunities through interactions with current and potential sponsors and the development of research proposals
- Partner with other cyber security experts internally and externally to share relevant knowledge, working to fulfill deliverables as a team
- Leverage existing work, internal resources and partnerships to develop new capabilities to increase the impact of LLNL
- Work closely with program leadership to ensure coordination and leveraging across the portfolio
- Actively participate in strategic planning for the Cyber and Infrastructure Resilience Program
- Ability to run complete user-centric research studies end-end from scoping the problem, forming hypothesis, identifying, and working with recruiting agencies to find interviewees, conducting the research, and drawing deep user insights and converting them into actionable clear slides for clients
Qualifications for lead researcher
- Advanced degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science a plus
- 4 years of experience in a Research role or in another UX role
- Exceptional skills in problem solving, ideation and communication
- Basic level SPSS knowledge
- Recognized as deeply knowledgeable and experienced in their space
- Informatics expert with a history of innovation and entrepreneurship
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of lead researcher. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead researcher
- Ability to run user-centric workshops with internal stakeholders, other disciplines, and clients
- Ability to appreciate and understand the importance of connecting the user-centric research to actionable, quantified business outputs
- Ability to mentor jr.researchers to build out a collaborative, engaging research culture
- Take part in west coast business development efforts with our Director of Strategy and engage large Fortune 500 clients
- Can apply research principles to all channels of engagement, including product, digital and service
- Apply advanced working knowledge of the JLR customer demographics and ensuring that participant recruitment most suitability reflects the desired current and target demographic
- Oversee time and schedule of facilities
- Direct the design and development teams to ensure that the delivery of test prototypes is timely
- Ensure user pilot tests are carried out
- Review provided analysis of the test and disseminate to the team and wider JLR audience
Qualifications for lead researcher
- 5+ years of demonstrable experience as a User Researcher, UX Researcher, Usability Analyst, or similar role, with examples of research initiatives
- Ability to integrate, test, and troubleshoot programmes and control software
- Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose solutions on informatics systems
- Scientist or engineer to degree level with significant industrial experience or scientist/engineer to advanced degree level
- Knowledge of commercially available laboratory automation
- Scientist / Engineer to degree level or equivalent