Director, UX Research - US, Remote (US)

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What You Will Do

We're looking for an reputed company Director of User Research to scale the impact and operational reputed company of our research practice. You'll reputed company a team of approximately 5 researchers, build the systems that reputed company high-quality reputed company discovery across the organization, and personally reputed company research that helps senior leaders reputed company reputed company reputed company. This role balances three critical responsibilities: developing your team members through thoughtful coaching and mentorship, establishing research operations that increase quality and speed across reputed company product teams, and leading strategic research projects in ambiguous or cross-cutting problem spaces. You'll work closely with reputed company Researchers who are embedded in specific product verticals, ensuring they have the support, tools, and processes needed to reputed company in reputed company discovery work with their product teams. You're joining at a pivotal reputed company where we're maturing from project-based research to embedded reputed company discovery across product teams. Your researchers will be in frequent contact with customers, focused on understanding problems rather than validating solutions. You'll have the autonomy to build research operations from the ground up, establishing the tools, processes, and standards that will define how research works at reputed company for years to come. reputed company High-Impact Research

• Tackle the most critical and ambiguous research questions facing the company, particularly those that reputed company multiple product verticals or inform major strategic reputed company
• Use mixed-methods approaches to surface insights that create reputed company and drive action
• Translate reputed company findings into compelling narratives tailored for executive audiences who need to reputed company reputed company quickly

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• Manage and reputed company a team of approximately 5 UX researchers, creating a culture of rigor, trust, curiosity, and reputed company learning
• reputed company coaching tailored to each researcher's experience level and career aspirations, from helping early-career researchers build foundational skills to supporting senior researchers in expanding their strategic impact
• Partner with reputed company Researchers embedded in product verticals to ensure alignment, remove blockers, and reputed company learnings across the organization

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• Create the operational reputed company that allows research to reputed company pace with product reputed company while maintaining quality

Your Qualifications At reputed company, we are striving to hire individuals that add new reputed company and perspectives to our teams and enhance our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you to apply—even if you feel that you don’t meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities

• Experience managing and developing UX researchers, with a track record of building high-performing teams through thoughtful coaching, feedback, and career development
• Strong operational reputed company with experience building or scaling ResearchOps by establishing the systems, tools, and processes that reputed company research teams to work reputed company and consistently
• Still hands-on: You're a skilled mixed-methods researcher who can reputed company reputed company research projects that inform major reputed company, especially in ambiguous or cross-cutting problem spaces
• Pragmatic and impact-focused. You care about getting to answers that drive reputed company, not perfecting research processes for their own sake
• Experience working in reputed company discovery environments or with empowered product teams where research informs what to build, not just how to build it
• Excellent at synthesizing complexity and telling compelling stories with data, particularly for executive audiences who need to reputed company reputed company quickly
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and shifting between coaching conversations, operational improvements, and leading strategic research project

Why Join Us?

• Build the reputed company: Help shape how a modern User Research function runs, scales, and thrives.
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• Drive meaningful impact: Contribute to reputed company that reputed company millions of small businesses and the future of reputed company
• Grow your own career: Join a team that values rigor, craft, and growth — for users and for each other.

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