Canonical Senior User Researcher Jobs in Kenya
Canonical Senior User Researcher Jobs in Kenya
About the job The design team at Canonical is looking for a Senior User Researcher, expert in current research practice, with interests in technology and innovation.
In this role you will:
Shape requirements, by conducting research with target users, audiences and stakeholders from the business, to identify and document user needs
Uncover the goals, motivations, and mental models of our diverse, technical users
Validate and help improve existing and proposed user experiences. We continuously improve UX, within agile sprints. Within product-squads you’ll work with designers and front end developers. You’ll collaborate across the organisation with product, engineering and marketing.
Help teams understand their product’s wider contexts of use
Synthesise findings from qualitative and qualitative research methods, delivering insights that gain traction in an engineering-led organisation
Support others to succeed at their own research. Plan, evangelise and implement #ResearchOps tools, to help seed and accelerate research thinking.
You’ll have a passion for understanding how humans navigate complexity, and enjoy bringing a user centred approach to engineering leaders.
Our products are both technical and specialist; you’ll frequently work with domain-experts, across a wide portfolio of products. An appreciation of open source software is relevant.
You should have:
A user-centred mindset.
Deep experience with
facilitating user research.
Experience with the wide range research methods: unmoderated sessions, cardsorts, surveys, AB tests, ethnographic studies, UX heuristics and benchmarking.
Analytical rigour, to turn a lake of data into meaningful, evidenced findings.
Communication and collaboration skills that enable team-members to turn those insights into practical design and product decisions.
The ability to work both tactically, on improvements, and strategically, on the bigger picture.
At 5-7 years relevant experience.
A relevant degree.
Desirable:
A combination of evangelism, stamina and listening-skills, to communicate the value and results of research with relevant stakeholders.
Experience with using remote tools, for completing research globally.
Quantitative skills with analytics, events and flows.
The pragmatism to support others with just-enough-research.
How to Apply
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