Senior User Experience Researcher

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

The Charles Schwab Digital Retail organization is a multi-disciplinary group that includes user experience designers, product owners, content strategists, operations, developers and UX researchers. We work with business and technology partners across the enterprise to build best-in-class digital experiences for our users.  Our business is driven by our company strategy: “Through clients’ eyes.” This makes it a dream place to work as a Senior User Experience Researcher.

Our company motto supports user advocacy. Our purpose is to help design tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals.  In this individual contributor role you will be an expert in user experience research. You’ll operate with independent judgement, lead by example demonstrating passion, positivity and keen problem-solving skills. Product and design teams will look to you to lead the creation of UX research projects that help answer their critical questions in a timely manner.

This position is responsible for:
Research Consulting Set expectations with project teams and align stakeholders on research goals, scope, timelines, and success criteria

Create and maintain research schedules, recruiting plans, and study logistics to ensure smooth operational execution

Communicate status, decisions, tradeoffs, and next steps clearly with project teams and stakeholders

Review work with UX managers, keep them updated on project status and escalate items appropriately

Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement Works well with partners to deliver research and facilitate workshops or planning sessions that build alignment and shape direction

Thoughtfully listen to stakeholder needs and incorporate feedback to guide delivery strategically

Collaborative and cooperative, adept at shifting work to match changes in priority

Has a research point of view but adapts methods and recommendations to adapt to business constraints while preserving rigor and insight quality

Passionate about the team, our mission and the needs of our partners and users

Enthusiastic about UX research and advocating for our clients

Empathy & Curiosity Understands and advocates user needs, walking in their shoes when possible

Focuses on innovation and improvement

Regularly learns more about user experience research theory, practice, and tools with a curiosity for exploring and using AI in UX research methods

Why your work matters:

You will support an engaged set of clients and partners who rely on our products to manage their financial lives

By researching and understanding user needs you will be able to help improve how our clients do business with Schwab You will partner with an engaged research team that fosters a learning, collaborative environment where team members support each other

What you have

Required Qualifications:

6+ years in applying user experience research at a tactical level

Proficiency and comfort running qualitative moderated and unmoderated research studies, and quantitative surveys, click tests, tree-tests, and more Proven ability to determine the best research method to use with the ability to provide rationale for the tradeoffs of using one vs another

Experience with AI-enabled solutions to streamline UX research tasks and scale analysis

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