Zillow · 2 days ago
Principal UX Researcher, StreetEasy
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Responsibilities
Apply diverse qualitative and quantitative research methods to tackle complex customer problems and find market opportunities.
Synthesize and articulate customer needs to steer product strategy and innovation.
Advocate for customer-centric design throughout the entire process while aligning with business objectives.
Collaborate with marketers, designers, product managers, and engineers to enhance customer experiences.
Lead research initiatives, including user interviews, contextual inquiries, surveys, diary studies, co-design sessions, concept evaluations, and usability testing.
Measure the effectiveness of products and their impact on customer experiences.
Present research findings to stakeholders, including senior leadership, to foster data-driven decision-making.
Deliver high-quality work on time by leveraging existing data and insights to build on past findings and align with strategic objectives.
Establish a range of research offerings, from full-service to self-service options that empower team members to answer their own questions.
Ensure research efforts focus on critical business and customer needs by prioritizing the most important questions.
Guide and collaborate with other UX researchers to manage projects, align them with business goals, and develop research roadmaps.
Mentor and support other UX researchers.
Travel to in-person collaboration sessions and team building events ~2-4 weeks per year.
Contribute, learn, grow, and have fun!
Qualification
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Required
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
12+ years experience as a user researcher or similar role
Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, like a startup.
Expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods and research design to understand user behavior and address business objectives.
Proven success working with cross-functional product teams to guide strategic decisions.
Experience collaborating with other UX and analytics professionals on complex, multi-modal studies.
Experience defining customer experience opportunities, identifying connections across lines of business, and solving big-picture problems.
Skilled in communicating research findings and actionable recommendations in a concise and visually compelling manner, leveraging storytelling skills to show impact on both customers and business outcomes.
Skilled in engaging partners in research, driving usage of insights, and influencing outcomes.
Experience conducting generative research to identify market opportunities, not just product-specific insights.
Strong and well-established product sense and business curiosity.
Preferred
PhD in relevant field (social science, psychology, HCI)
Familiarity with NY real estate market
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages
Parental leave
Family benefits
Retirement contributions
Paid time off
Company
Zillow
Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for finding and sharing information about homes, real estate, and mortgages. It is a sub-organization of Zillow Group.
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Funding
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$96.63MKey Investors
Legg MasonPAR Capital Management
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