Are you curious, empathetic and passionate about understanding how people use new devices and technologies? Do you care and think deeply about how human interaction with physical objects matters in product design? The Microsoft Surface Team lives to build epic experiences that embody Microsoft's vision. If this inspires you then we want you on the Surface Product Research Team.
We need an influential Sr. User Experience Researcher who will deeply understand customers and provide leadership which inspires and helps us deliver amazing end to end products and experiences. Our culture moves and iterates fast. Your creativity, agility and ability to be an amazing partner across all disciplines of design, engineering, data science, market research, planning and other software teams across Microsoft will enable your success. You will be accountable for leading a research program for an entire product end to end, and you will be expected to work both strategically and tactically
• 5+ years experience in industry conducting applied research on consumer products with a depth in hardware product research. • 5+ years experience as a researcher on an end to end product - creating research agendas and schedules, , defining and tracking user experience goals and metrics, driving execution on projects, and managing the work of additional resources. • Experience with a broad range of research methodologies (qualitative and quantitative techniques) and you understand the right balance between the two. • You have the ability to work in front-end generative spaces as well as throughout