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Sr User Experience Researcher
more than one year ago
Posted:
more than one year ago
Varian Medical Systems
Company:
Varian Medical Systems
Helsinki
Location:
Helsinki
We're driving toward the ultimate victory: a world without the fear of cancer.
- Partner with user interface designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to identify research needs.
- Develop plans for user research activities across the product lifecycle from early stage design and product definition activities to post-release assessment.
- Understand and incorporate business and technical requirements in research strategies.
- Work with product teams to define user experience goals and metrics
- Design and conduct a variety of research studies including contextual inquiry, user interviews, focus groups, task analysis, card sorting, expert reviews, design walkthroughs, formative and summative usability tests, and surveys.
- Synthesize research findings into meaningful themes and translate these results into actionable user centered design and product goals.
- Evangelize Research findings to stakeholders through written reports and oral presentations.
- Advance the user experience team’s research toolbox by trying out new research techniques and deliverables.
Requirements:
- 10 + years of experience in user research with an emphasis on research related to software product design.
- Masters in Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, or closely related field.
- Excellent knowledge of all aspects of User Centered Design process and the ability to apply them flexibly across a variety of project types.
- Experience with design control and regulatory practices and standards for medical devices or similar regulated industry is preferred.
- Extensive experience working with designers, product managers, and engineers in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to rapidly revise and improvise research plans as needed.
- Experience with Agile methodologies is a plus.
- Experience with in-lab and remote, user research tools (e.g., Morae suite, User zoom).
- Proven project management skills and track record of delivering commitments on time.
- Ability to prioritize time between multiple projects, and stay flexible with changing schedules and projects while working with multiple teams.
- A proven track record of working well with multi-disciplinary/multi-cultural teams.
- Excellent analytical ability, especially with regard to observation of user behavior.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
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