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User Researcher
Design Team | San Francisco, CA
Dropbox is looking to hire User Researchers to join the newly formed Team Insights in San Francisco. Team Insights’ mission is to help Dropbox create better products and services by leveraging and being inspired by the needs of users and customers. At its core, it is about generating insights that drive action and impact product and design.
We would like to hear from people with proven skills in usability research, discovering, interpreting and communicating user insights for product and design.
Responsibilities
- Helping our product and design teams explore new opportunities, evaluate current products, and further unlock the potential of our existing services.
- Doing this by organizing and executing research projects, using a variety of lab based and field research methods.
- Developing an informed view of our users and customers (and potential users/customers) and their experiences.
- Creating, maintaining, and updating tools that leverage insights (personas, experience maps, and similar) to be used in product and design discussions
- Working with people and teams across the company to understand information gaps and needs, and then using research to generate useful insights.
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in user research and usability testing for tech companies; mobile and web product experience required.
- Experience conducting research with consumers, freelancers, small business owners, and/or enterprise users
- Knowledge of a variety of qualitative research methods.
- Track record of discovering and reporting and presenting actionable insights, with research, for product and design teams.
- Ability to work independently and take initiative to solve problems and design and execute research.
- Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, sales and support, and anyone else in a company who creates for or interacts with users and customers.
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