UX Researcher; Part-time; Retail Media; m​/f​/d

Media Markt Saturn  Technology is looking for an enthusiastic and skilled UX Researcher to join our permanent team in Spain. In this role, you will focus on our growing Retail Media ecosystem, helping shape advertising, brand partnership, and sponsored experience touchpoints across our digital platforms (web, app, and specialized internal/partner tools).

You will partner closely with cross-functional product squads—including Product Managers, Product Designers, Engineers, Data/AI specialists, and Commercial/Ad-Tech stakeholders to uncover actionable user and business insights that drive product discovery and validation.

What You Will Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Drive UXR in Retail Media: Lead qualitative and quantitative UX research initiatives focused on retail media touchpoints (e.g., sponsored product placements, brand display advertising, self-serve advertiser portals, reporting dashboards, and audience targeting workflows).
• Enable & Coach Designers: Empower product designers across the department to conduct their own evaluative and tactical research projects (e.g., usability testing, concept testing) by offering methodological coaching, test plan reviews, best practices, and practical feedback.
• End-to-End Research: Plan, execute, and analyze research activities across the product lifecycle—from early exploratory/discovery research to iterative concept and usability testing.
• Lean & Agile
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Embed within agile product squads to support sprint cycles, framing hypotheses, defining research goals, and providing rapid feedback to inform ongoing design and product decisions.
• Mixed-Methods Execution: Conduct user interviews, contextual inquiries, usability benchmarks, tree testing, surveys, and unmoderated studies with both external users (shoppers, advertisers, brand partners) and internal teams (ad operations, category managers).
• Data & Insight Synthesis: Triangulate qualitative insights with behavioral and business data (e.g., ad engagement, click-through rates, conversion, funnel analytics) to present compelling, evidence-based recommendations.
• Knowledge Sharing & Toolkit: Maintain and contribute to our centralized research repository, sharing frameworks, self-serve templates, and guidelines across teams to build an organizational culture of continuous learning and user-centered design.

• Experience: Professional experience (approx. 3–5 years) in UX Research or Mixed-Methods Research within digital product teams.
• Domain Knowledge: Demonstrable experience or strong familiarity with Retail Media, AdTech, E-commerce platforms.
• Research Enablement & Mentorship: Passion and capability for coaching, supporting, and upskilling product designers in conducting their own research, acting as a supportive advisor and research advocate.
• Methodological Toolkit: Solid grounding in both generative (discovery) and evaluative (usability, concept validation) research methods, with the ability to choose the right approach based on project constraints.
• Lean UX Mindset: Familiarity with hypothesis-driven product discovery and working iteratively in cross-functional agile teams.
• Tooling Proficiency: Experience with modern research, testing, and collaboration tools (e.g., User Testing, Condens, Figma) and analytics platforms.
• AI Literacy: Practical interest or experience leveraging AI tools for research workflows (e.g., synthesis assistance, transcript clustering, desk research) while exercising critical judgment over outputs.
• Communication & Stakeholder
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to translate complex findings into structured, visually engaging, and actionable takeaways for product, design, and business partners.
• Languages: Fluent English (working language of Media Markt Saturn  Technology). Spanish is…