Staff Quantitative UX Researcher, AI

A role at ServiceNow to lead the design lifecycle from discovery through design validation and customer adoption, focusing on AI-enhanced technology and customer-centered research.

Responsibilities

• Represent and identify highly complex customer problems across the product and lead the design lifecycle from discovery through design validation and customer adoption.
• Apply and adapt appropriate research techniques and methods for specific project needs.
• Engage with customers to understand their unique needs for our products, defining and synthesizing user types and use cases.
• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to provide highly informed strategic recommendations that influences decision making.
• Validate feature and design direction through participatory design, early concept testing, formative and summative usability testing.
• Provide direction, vision, and leadership for large collaborative efforts.
• Communicate and educate partners on findings through artifacts such as specific user segments, persona frameworks, jobs to be done, user journeys, task analyses, etc.
• Provide mentorship to other members of the team and champion the discipline across the organization.

Requirements

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
• BA/BS degree or higher in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience developing, deploying, and analyzing large N surveys.
• Advanced statistical knowledge (Max diff, regression, small N analysis, ANOVA etc).
• Strong leadership and strategic mindset to drive projects end to end.
• Experience in applying customer-centered research techniques to product definition and designs.
• Experience defining, planning, and executing research studies including outlining objectives, goals, and timelines. This includes developing sample plans and determining the best data collection approach using quantitative and/or qualitative methods.
• A portfolio of work representing research that influenced great insights or experiences. This includes examples of research goals, research methodologies used, the process followed, your involvement and role, data visualizations, and crisply articulated insights from the research.

Key Skills

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
• Experience developing, deploying, and analyzing large N surveys.
• Advanced statistical knowledge (Max diff, regression, small N analysis, ANOVA etc).
• Strong leadership and strategic mindset to drive projects end to end.
• Experience in applying customer-centered research techniques to product definition and designs.
• Experience defining, planning, and executing research studies including outlining objectives, goals, and timelines. This includes developing sample plans and determining the best data collection approach using quantitative and/or qualitative methods.
• A portfolio of work representing research that influenced great insights or experiences. This includes examples of research goals, research methodologies used, the process followed, your involvement and role, data visualizations, and crisply articulated insights from the research.
• 7+ years’ of work experience applying and conducting customer-centered research, Advanced degree is a bonus.
• Experience developing insightful, probing questions that resonate with both highly technical individuals through business minded end-users using enterprise software.
• In depth knowledge of user interface design, usability evaluation techniques, task analysis, and experimental design.
• Experience with the creation and execution of online surveys as well as rich qualitative research techniques.
• Expert presentation skills to visualize technically complex topics and make them easy to understand with customers as well as product management and design stakeholders.
• Expert comprehension of personas, product and technical capabilities.

Benefits

• For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $163,600 - $286,300, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits.
• Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure.
• Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.
• We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs.