Design Researcher - Data and Growth

Staff Design Researcher - Data and Growth Experiences

Category Design & User Experience Location Mountain View, California Job 22769

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as Turbo Tax, Credit Karma, Quick Books, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Intuit's mission is to power prosperity around the world. Our platform sits underneath Turbo Tax, Credit Karma, Quick Books, and Mailchimp, and it serves tens of millions of consumers, self-employed people, and small business owners who are trying to make better financial decisions.

Intuit has been named to Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" and Fortune World's "Most Admired Software Companies" lists for years running. We use Customer Driven Innovation and Design for Delight to decide what to build and why, and our teams have brought hundreds of products to market across consumer and small business finance. If you want your research to shape decisions that reach millions of people, this is a place to do that work.

The DGX Platform Experiences team owns how customers access, manage, and connect their accounts and data, and how they move across the Intuit ecosystem. As a Staff Design Researcher, you set the research direction across two portfolios, Data Platform and Intuit Data Exchange, and you turn what we learn into decisions that shape both roadmaps

This is a senior individual-contributor role that runs on independence. You decide what gets studied and what waits, you manage your own time against more demand than any one person can meet, and you carry the work from question to decision with little day-to-day direction. The weight falls on judgment and prioritization as much as on method.

Responsibilities

• Set the research direction across both portfolios. Own the questions that matter for Data Platform and for Intuit Data Exchange, decide what is worth studying and what isn't, and sequence a program of work that runs across quarters rather than sprints.
• Turn evidence into direction. Bring a clear point of view to product and design leadership about where the biggest customer opportunities are, and make the case in terms leaders can act on.
• Influence at the altitude of directors and VPs. Change roadmaps, investment decisions, and strategy through the strength of the insight and how you land it, not through authority.
• Be the standard for research quality. As the senior researcher on the team, you set the methods and the rigor, and you make product managers and designers better at the lighter-weight research they run themselves.
• Run the hard studies yourself when the stakes call for it. Plan and lead research across the full range of methods, from generative interviews and contextual inquiry through usability, survey, and behavioral analysis, and get to the root of how customers actually think.
• Connect the dots across the ecosystem. Build a shared, durable understanding of platform customers that carries across products and outlasts any single project, so teams start from what we already know instead of relearning it.
• Prioritize ruthlessly and run yourself. With two portfolios and more open questions than can be answered at once, you make the call on what matters most, keep the work organized, and move it forward without waiting for direction.

Qualifications

• Deep command of qualitative and quantitative methods, and the judgment to choose, combine, or invent an approach when the problem is new. You can triangulate interview data, behavioral and clickstream signals, surveys, and market data into a single clear read.
• Strategic thinking rooted in business context. You start from where the business is trying to go, clarify the objectives behind a request, and focus the work on the questions that will actually move a decision.
• A track record of research that changed product or portfolio strategy, with outcomes you can point to, not just studies you ran.
• The ability to…