User Experience Researcher (Gaming)
*If you feel qualified for this position, please email your resume to tyrel.lucke@compucom.com. Thank you.*
Location: Redmond area
Contract Length: 6 months, likely to extend to 12 months
Start: ASAP
Note: This is a good team. It has a great reputation and the people are fun to work with! I have hired many people with this manager.
The Research team is a multidisciplinary team with the charter of designing awesome end-to-end experiences that are effortless, intuitive, and delightful. We are looking for a User Experience Researcher with strong research and communication skills who is interested in working on entertainment experiences on the team's products.
Qualifications:
• 3+ years of industry experience conducting user research and effectively arguing for tangible improvements to the user experience based on the research results
• Experience using standard user research techniques at various stages of the development process (e.g., lab usability studies, heuristic evaluations, surveys)
• Ability to work independently (with supervision and guidance) to create and moderate user studies to acquire data from consumers.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze research data, create results presentations, and deliver them to product teams. Strong oral and written communication skills are a must.
• Intermediate statistical analysis skills, and ideally familiarity with one or more statistical packages used for analysis (SPSS, Statistica, etc). Strong skills using Excel to perform basic analyses are acceptable.
• Skills and interest in finding creative ways to present and visualize rich research data are plusses.
• Interest in working on entertainment experiences and consumer-facing products and services is desirable. Background playing games is a big plus.
• What will the duration of this position be? Is there potential for extension (if less than one year)? 6 months with extension to a year highly probable.
• Can you briefly describe the culture of your group? What makes your team unique? We have at diverse, fun group. We work in entertainment, so we try to entertain each other. Sometimes we succeed.
• What will the day-to-day activities be for this person? What will they be responsible for accomplishing? Working to plan and conduct lab studies and other user research.
*If you feel qualified for this position, please email your resume to tyrel.lucke@compucom.com. Thank you.*
