Role Profile: UX Researcher

February 20th, 2024

With contributors:

Ian Jacobs , Eleanor Theriault , Shayna Neuburg

Summary

This role profile provides a job description and competency inventory for the user experience (UX) researcher role, also known as experience researcher or design researcher. UX researchers are responsible for building empathy and understanding around user needs within an organization through rigorous and collaborative research approaches. The successful candidate for this role will possess strong research expertise, product sense, communication skills, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.

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