Wikimedia Foundation · 2 days ago
Manager, User Experience Research
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$121K/yr - $190K/yr
3+ years exp
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Liz Morris
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Responsibilities
Building and managing a motivated, collaborative and high performing team of individuals from different disciplines, with varying seniority levels and responsibilities in a remote-first organization.
Identifying research opportunities and overseeing research that inform our product and technology teams in building the right products and features for the right users.
Acting as a trusted and strategic partner for leaders across the organization and supporting them in the adoption of research-based user-centered recommendations.
Lead and inform planning and strategy discussions through research by consolidating, analyzing, and synthesizing what is known about users, products, services and organizational needs.
Proposing and executing an annual plan for the team and managing the team’s budget.
Qualification
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Required
3 or more years of experience directly managing, coaching and developing UX researchers with varying levels of seniority in a large, matrixed organization.
3 or more years of experience working with senior leadership.
5 or more years experience conducting or overseeing UX research in product-focused teams or organizations.
Experience working as a UX researcher, individual contributor or manager, overseeing human centered research projects that go beyond a limited number of languages, cultures, and geographies.
Track record of translating research into design and product.
Master's or PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Behavioral Economics, Linguistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a related field.
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, excellent at asynchronous communication.
Preferred
Experience overseeing teams with mixed method expertise.
Experience working with international vendors and contractors.
Experience working with volunteer communities and projects.
Experience working in NGO, non-profit, or social good oriented organizations.
Experience contributing to Wikimedia projects.
Fluency in languages beyond English.
Published research in the past three years or contributed to research communities through service activities in the past three years.
Company
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
501-1,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (4)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$158.98MKey Investors
Alfred P. Sloan FoundationCraig Newmark PhilanthropiesGoogle.org
2020-01-01Grant· $2.1M
2019-09-10Grant· $2.5M
2019-01-22Grant· $1.1M
Leadership Team
Lisa Gruwell
Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the CEO
Janeen Uzzell
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
2024-11-06
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