IBM Hiring for Advisory UX Researcher at Kochi, India Full Time

Introduction

Thomas J. Watson said it best: ‘Good design is good business.’ Visualization is critical to discovering data-driven insights and effectively communicating that knowledge to others. Designers at IBM work to create experiences that work together, work the same, and work for our clients. Does the thought of creating the platform at the heart of solutions like Watson, Blockchain, IoT, and Security excite you? If so, read on!

Your Role and Responsibilities

Advisory User Experience Researcher – Sustainability software.

IBM Sustainability Software is responsible for creating software products that help our customers optimize operations and cost, while reducing waste and emissions. We are looking for our next experienced user researcher to help our Envizi product team deliver delightful, end-to-end experiences informed by user needs. Envizi helps enterprises simplify the capture, consolidation, management, analysis and reporting of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) data.

As an advisory UX researcher on the Envizi team, you will have the opportunity to shape our UX research strategy, mentor a team of researchers, and demonstrate impact and influence on the product roadmap. Rigor, attention to detail, insatiable curiosity, comfort with ambiguity, and a willingness to learn will be critical to your success.

You will be expected to contribute as a key research leader in your geography and with the broader Sustainability Software Research group, which spans the globe and works on half a dozen software products. Within our research community, you will collaborate on projects as needed, provide UX research craft expertise and mentoring to earlier career researchers, and contribute to organizational projects.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Product Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive UX research strategy that aligns with business goals, ensuring a user-centered approach throughout the product development lifecycle. Define the research roadmap that you and your user research team will execute.

Practice Leadership: Mentor UX researchers, providing guidance and feedback, and fostering their professional growth. Help drive best practices for research methods, leading by example, and contribute to the creation of repeatable processes that enable a user research organization to grow and scale.

Research Planning: Define research goals, methodologies, and timelines for various projects, ensuring alignment with product objectives and user needs.

User Research: Conduct qualitative and quantitative research studies, such as interviews, surveys, competitive analyses, prioritization exercises, concept testing, contextual inquiry, and user journey mapping to gather insights about user behaviors, needs, and preferences. Design Thinking workshop facilitation skills are also beneficial.

Data Analysis: Analyze research data and derive actionable insights that drive informed design decisions and product improvements.

Stakeholder Collaboration + Influence: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including executive and ‘pre-executive’ level designers, product managers, and engineers, to advocate for user needs and ensure research findings are effectively communicated and integrated into the product development process.

User Advocacy: Serve as a user advocate, ensuring that user feedback and insights are consistently considered and prioritized in product decisions.

Industry Trends: Stay up to date with the latest UX research methodologies, industry trends, and best practices, and proactively apply them to enhance our research processes and deliverables.

Research Operations: Establish and optimize research operations, including participant recruitment, research tools, and documentation, to streamline research activities and ensure high-quality deliverables.

Collaboration and Communication: Foster a collaborative and inclusive research culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and effective communication across teams and stakeholders.

Executive eminence: Measure and present the impact that UX research has produced through your leadership and work.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, User Experience Research, Anthropology, or a related field.

• Proven experience (5+ years) conducting user research throughout the entire product development lifecycle.

• Strong leadership skills, with experience leading / mentoring other UX researchers and proven experience contributing to the growth of a research practice.

• Expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods (as noted above).

• Proficiency in data collection and analysis, and the ability to triangulate customer insights from a combination of data sources to derive meaningful insights.

• Solid understanding of UX principles, design thinking, and human-centered design processes.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to leverage storytelling to effectively convey complex research findings and recommendations to diverse stakeholders. Emphasis on executive-level communication.

• Demonstrated experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving UX research initiatives within an agile product development environment.

• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities, with a keen eye for detail.

• Passion for user-centered design, empathy for users, and a commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• None

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This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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