Intuit · 6 hours ago
Staff Design Researcher
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $243K/yr
5+ years expIntuit is a global technology platform that helps customers overcome financial challenges. They are seeking a Staff Design Researcher to lead research initiatives for the Workforce Solutions team, driving strategy and delivering actionable insights to enhance product development.
AccountingFinancial ServicesFinTechPaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Identify Opportunities Independently: Identify strategic opportunity areas where research is needed and prioritize them based on business needs, capacity, and timelines
Advocate with Courage: Show accountability and courage to advocate for the team, customers, partners, and the business—even in tough conversations. You will balance inquiry and inclusion to effectively influence product direction
Drive Strategy: Partner with Product Management, Design, Engineering, and Data to inform, refine, and iterate on the Workforce Solutions product strategy
End-to-End Leadership: Lead comprehensive research initiatives: ask the right questions to identify clear goals, form testable hypotheses, and deliver finalized research plans
Design Rationale: Participate in and promote a culture of detailed feedback rooted in first principles, design rationale, and customer data
Actionable Insights: Conduct evaluative and generative research to feed learnings back into the product, driving design decisions through data by partnering with our analytics team
Coach the Team: Act as a coach to the wider design team, providing guidance on when and how to conduct their own rapid tests
Mentorship: Provide mentorship to junior researchers and designers from a craft and cross-discipline partnership perspective
Elevate Standards: Regularly demonstrate research coaching abilities across all levels and functions, establishing a standard of excellence for the org
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience leading user research for complex products with cross-product interdependencies
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, or a related field
A portfolio that demonstrates a track record of successfully managing research engagements, from early-stage strategic research to usability studies, directly impacting business and product development
Consistently leverages an expansive research toolkit, including mixed methods (qualitative/quantitative/analytics), and applies novel approaches to open-ended problems
High appreciation for the value of hard data; ability to integrate survey data and analytics into the research process to complement qualitative findings
Proficiency in leading remote research and utilizing digital tools to connect with users globally
Leverages strong knowledge of products, platforms, and customer problems to triangulate multiple sources of data (e.g., qualitative data, survey data, analytics, external research) into strategic frameworks that inform product strategy decisions
Develops simple ways of visualizing insights to deliver complex ideas tailored to produce maximum impact for specific audiences (from engineering to executive stakeholders)
Experience working in an environment of lightweight and rapid experiments and iterations
Strong storytelling and presentation skills; comfortable presenting findings to large audiences and senior stakeholders
Ability to navigate ambiguity and reimagine products that require a high degree of cross-team coordination
Benefits
Cash bonus
Equity rewards
Benefits
Company
Intuit
Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.52BKey Investors
JP Morgan Chase
2025-01-31Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2023-09-12Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2011-01-19Post Ipo Equity· $6.7M
Leadership Team
Sasan Goodarzi
Chief Executive Officer
Alex Balazs
Chief Technology Officer
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