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JOB DESCRIPTION
Senior UX Researcher
Location: San Francisco, Chicago, New York City
Are you a seasoned user researcher? Are you looking to create better experiences for our customers? If you want to expand your professional goals at Newmark, this is the role for you. Join us as our newest Senior UX Researcher and continue to Love Your Career at Newmark.
Representing the needs to tenants and building owners is the cornerstone of our customer product experience. A frustrating experience can make or break even the best experience with a product. That's why we're looking for a Senior UX Researcher who will dig into the details and help define and deliver a world-class product experience for our customer base that grows the scale, effectiveness, and success of our business.
RESPONSIBILITIES
What you'll do
- Fight for the users-be a staunch advocate for our users and evangelize user experience throughout the organization.
- Conduct UX research and usability tests with customers and share findings with stakeholders.
- Partner with Product peers to contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction.
- Help deliver clear storytelling around customer needs and business opportunities.
- Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and design peers.
- Independently lead research planning and execution, effectively building alignment with cross-functional peers and stakeholders throughout the research process.
- Clearly communicate insights and learnings, tying directly to actionable next steps and impact on product direction.
- Contribute to the growth and development of the UX Research team and discipline.
- Represent customer needs and opportunities, backed by data, in strategic product planning and prioritization.
- Collaborate with Design and Product leadership to align on research priorities and roadmap across multiple work streams.
- Partner closely with other researchers to build out Smartsheet's research practice and infrastructure including sourcing research vendors to augment the work of your team.
QUALIFICATIONS What we need from you
- 5+ years relevant user research experience working on digital experiences with a proven track record of generating actionable insights that resulted in measurable product improvements.
- Experience with a broad range of research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, across the various stages of product development (pre and post product launch)
- Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, driving alignment around user needs and incorporating peers into the research process.
- Experience planning and driving cross-functional, brainstorming activities (such as design sprints or similar exercises)
- Experience conducting complex research at scale.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and can present effectively to executive audiences.
- Relentless focus on users and solving for their needs and wants.
- Have considerable experience translating user needs into AI strategies
Nice to haves
- Enterprise software, commercial real estate, real estate technology or FinTech experience
- Demonstrated success coaching and leading a team(s) in a rapidly growing and iterative culture.
- A passion for analytics, key metric definition and their tracking - to drive design decisions.
Salary: $125,000 - $220,000 annuallyThe expected base salary for this position ranges from $125,000 to $220,000 annually. The actual base salary will be determined on an individualized basis taking into account a wide range of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, education, and, where applicable, licenses or certifications held. In addition to base salary and a competitive benefits package, this position may be eligible for additional types of compensation including discretionary bonuses and other short- and long-term incentives (e.g., deferred cash, equity, etc.).
Working Conditions: Normal working conditions with the absence of disagreeable elements.
Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Newmark is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.