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ManpowerGroup Hardware UX Researcher in Seattle, Washington

Our client, a leading technology company, is seeking a Hardware UX Researcher to join their team. As a Hardware UX Researcher, you will be supporting a New Product Experimentation team. The ideal candidate will have strong verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills, and experience with data and utilizing numbers to define and support hypotheses.

Job Title: Hardware UX Researcher

Location: Seattle, WA

Pay Range: $65/hour

What's the Job?

  • Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative and some quantitative methods, including remote and in-home interviews, diary studies, in-lab studies with novel hardware prototypes, and ethnographic observation, to track current MR product performance in market and inform future VR product development

  • Work closely with partners (hardware engineering, industrial design, product management, privacy & security, and more) to ensure the product team is moving forward with a clear understanding of the user problem space

  • Effectively communicate with and present findings to a variety of audiences from product teams to executive leadership

  • Collaborate closely with researchers, designers, PMs & engineers to identify, define and deliver meaningful products into the world

  • Lead various research studies throughout all the phases of the product development cycle

What's Needed?

  • Hardware UX Researcher with 4+ years experience in hardware products and/or virtual/mixed reality products

  • Strong ability to work independently and manage one's time

  • Experience with storytelling to get traction with various audiences

  • Experience with autonomy and decision making to balance demands

  • Strong mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback

What's in it for me?

  • 12-month contract potential for extension or FTE

  • Opportunity to partner directly with a single, tightly integrated pod with significant freedom to operate with the time, people and space necessary for conceiving, building and launching brand new products

  • Research is paramount to this organization's success - formative research is needed to identify the right latent needs or problems in the world to tackle with product solutions, iterative design research is needed to mold early product ideas into testable prototypes, and creative evaluative research is needed to improve and prepare those products for market

  • Collaboratively and independently develop and execute research roadmaps

  • Manage research vendors to help augment the work of the research team

If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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