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Our client, the world's leading search engine and technology company, is seeking a UX/Visual Designer. This is a 6 month + contract hybrid remote position located in Mountain View, CA.
Summary:
Summary:
- Area Description Cross-Device Incubation (XDI) team is a UXR team in the Devices & Services PA that brings product concepts to life through research.
- Through foundational, exploratory, and evaluative research, XDI UXR informs cutting-edge technologies and innovative ideas.
- Some of our focus areas include exploring a tangible audio-only interface, redesigning hardware with repairability in mind, and bringing personal and GenAI features to the Client Ecosystem.
- For this year, our primary focus is realizing the vision of bringing Personal AI to the client family of devices.
Responsibilities:
- You would be a core contributor to a small team of researchers helping deliver this vision on.
- UX Researcher, Devices + Services Product Area - Cross Device Incubation (XDI).
- Design and execute user research studies with external participants.
- Align with stakeholders on research needs and timelines.
- Analyze, document, and share findings via compelling written reports and presentations to stakeholders.
- Create (execute on) a research roadmap and strategy for our client AI product for 2024.
- Clear communication Resourceful problem solving.
- Executive research (UX Research).
- Help execute research and analyzes for research projects or programs.
- Research for impact.
- Help conduct research to identify user needs and business opportunities that further product goals by demonstrating foundational understanding and empathy of the user.
- Synthesizing and communicating research.
- Contribute to analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs, with direct guidance.
- Help to create and communicate research findings, insights, and recommendations.
- Understand all possible users.
- With direct guidance, work on ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
- Start to develop user-centric thinking to unblock partners and collaboratively solve well scoped constraints in strategy, product, or technology.
Requirements:
- Years of Experience: 6+.
- Experience with research design utilizing various methods including but not limited to usability studies, contextual inquiry, concept testing and surveys.
- Relevant product research experience in an end-to-end, usability, or foundational/generative setting.
- Experience with every stage of research, from scoping, planning, and recruiting to execution and reporting.
- Experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices.
- Experience working closely with product manager, UX designer and engineering to inform product direction.
- Ethical UX research.
- Ability to prioritize the needs of people in order to conduct ethical user research to drive the design or adaptation of user interfaces, products, services, or platforms, especially if ethical conflicts of interest arise.
- A focus on planning and conducting research that prioritizes ethics from a user's perspective.
- Human/user behavior.
- Ability to think holistically about strategic value for users based on understanding their motivations, needs, pain points, and values.
- This includes knowledge of human capabilities, including principles of human cognition and information processing, emotion, and sentiment, decision-making and behavior, and how these translate into use, user, and usage fundamentals, usability principles and design best practices.
- UX research methodology.
- Knowledge of principles and methods for defining and measuring UX, and the ability to adapt UX research methods to the appropriate user interface and platform.
- Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
Desired:
- Experience conducting research on GenAI or Hardware devices.
- Experience roadmapping and aligning stakeholders to research projects/priorities.
- A passion for creating high quality and actionable insights in a very ambiguous and undefined space.
- Comfortable with the fast-changing priorities of shipping the first version of a product.
- Super collaborative and open to learning a new style of research and deliverable crafting.
Pay rate range: $51.44 - $64.30 hourly.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
- Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)
- Remote opportunities available
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
