Senior User Researcher
Job description
Made Tech wants to positively impact the country's future by using technology to improve society. We believe being design-led can create positive outcomes in the public sector through critical services enabled by technology. We are building a community of designers and researchers to support the public sector growing demand for a design-led approach to service delivery.
Senior User Researchers are experienced practitioners who are confident at working with UCD colleagues and professions outside of our service line such as the Data & tech teams. They collaborate with these teams to understand challenges people face when using public services.
They do this by conducting user research through employing the use of qualitative / quantitative methodologies with real people, ensuring what their team is learning in research informs the end-to-end design of a chosen
Key responsibilities
- Acts as the research subject matter expert on a multidisciplinary team, facilitating the end-to-end research process and communicating research decisions to the team and stakeholders
- Scope the focus of research, so everyone involved has a shared understanding of what success looks like
- Comfortable in selecting the most appropriate qualitative / quantitative research methods when designing a research project
- Able to work as a solo researcher within a multidisciplinary team on client deliveries
- Advocating for user research within the project delivery and with stakeholders
- Plan research that informs the design of public services that are helpful, usable and successful
- Understands and help teams to apply a range of methods to analyse research data and synthesise findings
- Creates compelling and actionable insights which are suited to the research development phase
- Identifies key project stakeholders, builds relationships and works with them regularly to include and update on the progress of research
- Presenting findings in ‘show & tells’ / in key meetings to project delivery team and key stakeholders
- Analyse and interpret research findings so that teams can confidently confirm or challenge their understandings of problems and ideas
- Advocates for teams to make decisions based on research findings
Skills, knowledge and expertise
Practice
- Experienced in user centred, lean and agile research methodologies including:
- Usability testing
- Contextual enquiry
- Rapid research
- Survey development
- Measurable and evaluative research
- Accessibility and inclusive design
- Understands and adheres to Made Tech’s research standards, the MRS code of practice and GDPR
- Provide clear and informative communications with research participants, including sharing GDPR policies
Community
- Support the hiring and onboarding of researchers
- Help define Made Tech design principles through delivering good public services
- Represent the community publicly and internally
- Contributes to communities of practice by discussing, sharing suggestions, approaches, ideas and sharing best practice
- Takes a proactive approach to learning (e.g. new research methods / analysis techniques) and shares knowledge back to the UR community.
- Proactively seeking feedback on own work and providing constructive feedback to colleagues
- Desirable: Skills in either Service Design, Content Design, Interaction design.
Key measures
- Delivery of good public services for users with clients
- Case studies of how to design and deliver good public services and outcomes
- Growth and happiness of the UCD community at Made Tech
Competencies
- Client Focus
- Drive to Deliver
- Learning and Mentoring
- Experienced in their Profession
- Facilitation
Job benefits
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How we hire
Our hiring process is designed to be thorough, transparent, and supportive, guiding candidates through each step. The exact process may vary slightly depending on the role but these are the typical steps candidates can expect.
We’ll keep you updated throughout the process and provide helpful feedback at each stage. No matter the outcome, we make sure the feedback is useful and supportive, so you feel informed and can learn from the experience.
Our talent team will review all applications, and while we may use AI to help speed up the process, a real human will always make the final decisions. Once reviewed, shortlisted applicants will be invited to a screening.
This is a 25-30 minute call with someone in our talent team who is hiring for the role.
Once screenings have taken place the hiring manager will review the shortlist and invites to interview will be sent.
You may then be invited to an initial virtual interview which is usually with the hiring manager or a couple of members from the team. This is usually around 45 – 60 minutes and the format may vary depending on the role.
If you progress, you’ll be invited to a final stage interview which is usually with two members of the team. The format varies depending on the role and this is usually an hour.
Final conversation with one of our exec members.
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