User Experience Researcher (Optional remote)
Atypon Systems, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are looking for a User Experience Researcher to join our team. Your mission will be to deepen our knowledge and understanding of our users and apply these insights to the design and development of our products.
As an integral member of the UX team, you will be responsible for conducting, analyzing and reporting on research activities. From contextual studies, in-depth interviews and journey mapping to card sorting, tree testing and usability tests, you will ensure that research is appropriately embedded every step of the way.
This is an exciting and challenging role where you will be working across a wide portfolio of projects and products that affect thousands of users every day.
Requirements
- At least 3 years proven experience
- Ability to organize and facilitate user research
- Experience taking a lean research approach and working on tight deadlines
- Ability to write scripts for task based testing
- Ability to synthesize data and offer actionable insights to stakeholders and team members
- Comfortable refining concepts in a fast paced and iterative environment
- Ability to map research findings to business strategy
- Solid understanding of UCD methodology
- Exceptional written and spoken English with superb presentation skills
- BA/BS degree in human behavior related field such as HCI, Psychology, Anthropology or Social Science.
- Familiar with science publishing, have recent experience as an academic author/editor, or have experience managing editorial processes.
About Wiley/Atypon
We clear the way for seekers of knowledge: illuminating the path forward for research and education, tearing down barriers to society’s advancement, and giving seekers the help they need to turn their steps into strides.
John Wiley amp; Sons may have been founded over two centuries ago, but our secret to success remains the same: our people. We are willing to challenge the status quo, move the needle, and be innovative. Wiley’s headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations across the globe in more than 40 countries.
Atypon Systems, a John Wiley amp; Sons company, is the world’s largest technology company in the scholarly and professional publishing industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, and spread in five different countries, Atypon is renowned for its technological leadership when it comes to management and online delivery of professional and scholarly publisher content. Atypon's online publishing platform hosts more than 50% of the English-language Science, Technical, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) publications in the world.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Big creative ground to take advantage
- Private health insurance
- Retirement/Savings plan with employer contribution
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid or fully remote work
- Merit-based performance evaluation and objective setting
- Early Fridays during summer
- Extended paid parental leave
- Employee assistance program available