Senior UX Researcher

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More~ https~//www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

Would you like to join a User Experience team that is constantly solving new and exciting design problems in a highly technical area? Join our cross-functional team and steer projects through the full process, from understanding our users and their needs, to testing concepts and prototypes, through launch and monitoring solutions in the market.

Were dedicated to crafting clear and effective user experiences for technical software products that improve the world. You may be right for this role if you are~

• Energized by learning from customers and love tackling exciting problems
• Passionate about the user experience and want to join a dynamic UX team that is constantly solving new and exciting problems
• Interested in being a core member of the development team that builds products that make the world a better place
• Interested in improving programming workflows for scientists and engineers
  
  

Our user experience team has over 100 passionate user experience professionals with experience in user research, usability testing and design.  As strategic business partners, we work closely with our product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle to develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products.

Learn more about our UX department

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

,

As a UX Researcher, you will collaborate with members of a cross-functional development team to improve the user experience for MathWorks products and applications. You will follow a user-centered design approach and work collaboratively to research, design, and validate innovative solutions to complex problems.

• Identify which user research methods to use to answer questions about users and design directions based on projects needs, goals and constraints
• Conduct user research, identify user pains, and study user workflows to impact strategy and product direction
• Act as an advocate for our technical users
• Execute a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods such as, but not limited to, user interviews, surveys, usability testing, and card sorting
• Help the teams interpret and understand user feedback and provide recommendations for design considerations based on that feedback
• Help promote standard methodologies in design, research, and accessibility within the user experience and engineering teams and across the company
• Contribute to requirements and collaborate on design documents
  
  

,

STEM Degree (e.g., Information Design, Industrial or Mechanical Engineering, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, or other relevant degree)

Experience with relevant research and collaboration tools (e.g., UserZoom, OptimalWorkshop, Morae, Miro)

Experience with a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies

Knowledge of MATLAB, other programming languages (Python, C++, R, or JS), or GitHub is a plus

,

• A bachelors degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a masters degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.
  
  

, Join a dynamic UX team tackling complex design challenges in a highly technical domain. Help shape user-centered products through research and insights., LI-VK1

---