Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing needs of employees around the globe, particularly in the world of hybrid-work. We are building Microsoft Viva to address the fundamental shift in how people work, build their career, and find meaning in their work and balance overall. Microsoft Viva is our Employee Experience Platform designed for facilitating employee engagement in this new normal. 

We are seeking a strong User Researcher to join our multi-disciplinary team. Our success is dependent on building teams that include people from different backgrounds and experiences who can challenge each other’s assumptions with fresh perspective. To that end, we look for diverse applicants, including those from historically underrepresented groups.  

In this role, you’ll leverage your skills in mixed methods research. Insights will guide near and long-term product experience investments. You’ll work closely with UX Designers, other user researchers, data science, and engineering teams to ensure that we’re addressing the most critical user needs and opportunities.  

We’re especially enthusiastic about candidates who want to learn, grown, and embody new ways of working. If you embrace growth mindset, have a track record of delivering results, and you light up collaborating with other researchers, designers, product managers and engineers this is an awesome team to join. This position is based in North America with preference for Vancouver BC, Canada, Redmond WA, or Atlanta, GA. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

• Derive insights from quantitative and qualitative data, complementing other research that you will conduct on your own or in partnership with other researchers.  
• Build and execute impactful research plan(s) that provide the broad market views and deep customer insights needed to inform the product making process 
• Continuously inform an engineering roadmap using customer data (qualitative and quantitative). Key to this accountability will be identifying gaps and customer pain points, as well as potential customer delighters 

   

Qualifications

What does it take?  

Balance business motivations, value to Microsoft and external partners 

• You are eager to learn and understand about user audiences, their behaviors, context(s) and motivations – across all phases of the customer lifecycle and user journey  
• Can demonstrate strong empathy for these users while balancing the vision and constraints of stakeholders  

Desire to work in-stride with other people:  PMs, developers, designers, other researchers, marketers    

• Really, you must love this part of the job.  The lines between this role and others are often unclear and you must be comfortable with contributing, engaging others despite the ambiguity   
• Be ready to win together. This team has intentionally designed a structure where we work together.  

Entrepreneurial spirit willing to dig in 

• You will need practical and real-world problem-solving skills, as this team moves fast, and your role will be to help unblock barriers in design, build and go-to-market  

Other Requirements:  

• 3+ years of hands-on research and/or product planning experience, with demonstrated skill in collecting and analyzing human behavioral data to improve plans and UX in a technology industry setting   
• An advanced degree in HCI (human-computer interaction), market research, human factors, psychology, or a related field with a strong emphasis on research techniques and understanding humans / designing technology to meet their needs, or a BA/BS in one of these fields with significant industry experience    

If the above sounds like you, we can’t wait to talk to you! 

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