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โ Robin Mathew
Senior UX Researcher โ International Acquisition
American Express โข London, United Kingdom ๐ฌ๐ง
The Senior UX Researcher will optimize workflows across the UXR team to ensure alignment with Enterprise Acquisition Product & Platforms roadmaps. They will manage key high visibility initiatives end to end, delivering insights for customer-facing digital experiences during all phases of design and development.
Responsibilities
- Optimize workflows across the UXR team to ensure alignment with Enterprise Acquisition Product & Platforms (EAPP) roadmaps and right resource allocation against enterprise strategic initiatives.
- Provide UXR team with thought leadership i.e., methodologies, report writing, and other communication channels.
- Build relationships with stakeholders (product, design, marketing) to help socialize the work and inform 2026 planning and beyond.
- Package and communicate UXR work and insights across EAPP and to EAPP/ED&R Leadership.
- Manage key high visibility initiatives end to end, delivering insights for customer-facing digital experiences during all phases of design and development, across multiple markets.
- Employ a variety of methodologies and a user-centered approach, in a digital product development environment.
- Consult with product/channel owners and UX/UI designers to determine research requirements and make appropriate recommendations to meet identified needs.
- Ensure a cohesive user experience across products, channels, and markets.
- Manage the EAPP / ED&R UXR budget ensuring 100% utilization.
- Partner effectively with stakeholders and business partners in a matrix environment.
- People Leadership of 2 Direct Reports
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in consumer insights, with fluency in a broad range of methods and approaches to derive actionable meaning from data and results.
- Success working across a matrixed environment.
- Experience leading and inspiring a team.
- Proven track record bringing the voice of the customer front and center to business decisions and helping to shape outcomes.
- Portfolio demonstrating experience in synthesizing findings into quality artifacts.
- Deep understanding of human behavior gained via cognitive science, behavioral economics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, or human-computer interaction.
- Collaborative and generous in interactions with colleagues across product and design.
- Awareness of how quantitative research methods can work together with qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive range of insights.
- Ability to drive results whilst managing smaller projects and deliverables in a fast-paced, changing environment.
Key Skills
- Knowledge of a range of qualitative methodologies and tools, e.g. usability testing, remote testing, focus groups, card sorting and co-creation
- Awareness of how quantitative research methods can work together with qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive range of insights
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
About American Express
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether weโre supporting our customersโ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day. These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed โ from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customersโ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Smallยฎ movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more. For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to pro
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