Experienced Games User Researcher; Brighton – Player Research Brighton

Experienced Games User Researcher (Brighton UK, Permanent)

• Salary:
  Annual fixed, with modest annual performance-related bonus
• Location:
  
  UK Brighton
• Reports to:
  
  People Manager & Head of Research Craft

At Player Research we want the world to experience brilliant games; ones full of adventure, surprise and intrigue – the ones you can’t put down, and those you talk about for days.

Across the world we partner with game development teams to realise their creative visions by providing meaningful insight into how real players experience play.

We are the world’s premier partner for games user research. From our Brighton and Montreal studios we design and conduct award‑winning user experience studies for video games: usability testing, expert reviews, engagement diaries, full playthroughs, training courses, accessibility testing… and so much more.

We uncover insights that drive game development forward.

As an external research studio we collaborate far and wide: game developers, publishers, platform owners, incubators, indies, and beyond. Around one third of our projects are commissioned by games user research teams inside studios and publishers to extend their reach and capabilities.

Hundreds of game development studios rely on our insights into usability, UX, appeal, and play.

Our projects come in all shapes and sizes, from testing user interfaces to interviewing super‑fans; game console UI improvement, to toys‑to‑life; AAA full‑playthroughs, discovery research, difficulty balancing, narrative comprehension, and so much more. Our consultant Researchers are brought into the heart of design decision‑making in projects of all types. Some spanning years of development, some as one‑off studies.

We are exceptionally proud of our decade‑long reputation for authenticity, transparency and rigour. And we’d love to make you a part of it.

Player Research is an exceptional place to work & grow.

Our team is a healthy mix of expert practitioners and academically trained staff, each bringing their unique perspectives; each offering rich insight to our client studios, and one another.

We maintain a strong vision of company culture and values: rooted in deeply‑held trust and empathy among peers, deliberate communication, self‑determination, and taking pride in the work we deliver together.

You are an experienced games user research specialist, with demonstrable success in research strategy and project management, earned through your ownership of impactful games user research in a commercial setting. You are hungry to implement your battle‑tested instincts to improve the way developers apply research, and to deliver our clients the very best insight and consultative advice.

All of our Games User Researchers execute research as part of small, agile teams. Our smoothly run and insightful studies reliably help developers understand their audience and improve game design.

You’re ready to take on the challenges of building research strategies, training of peers, consultative selling of research programmes to high‑level client stakeholders. You want to take a steering role in making our team’s research super effective.

You’re passionate about seeing effective research delivered, be that longform or shortform studies. You’re able to consult and plan campaigns of research suitable for complex and high‑profile titles, and to become a trusted ‘single point of contact’ for the decision‑makers and business leaders we work with: helping them map Player Research’s diverse capabilities to their business context.

You are ready for a career ‘turbo‑charge’, becoming a world‑class individual contributor for our wide variety of clients making the best games in the world. All toward making unforgettable games through player‑centric development.

• Being our clients’
  trusted point‑of‑contact for advice and consultancy, nurturing long‑term, high‑quality client relationships
• Applying our client‑centric strategy
  , in partnership with our client Relations team, focusing on meeting client needs through campaigns of research; overseeing how each project matures our clients’ understanding of research, and joining‑up both processes and insights from…