Design Researcher

Raise
Toronto, Ontario
$40 an hour (estimated)
Full-time

Job Description

Design Researcher

Location : Toronto, ON - Hybrid

Contract Length : 12 Months.

Our client is the Canadian gold standard in the Financial Services Industry.

We are looking for Design Researcher.

We at Raise are hiring a Design Researcher for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.

We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.

What will you do? (there is lots more on this in a nutshell )

The main responsibilities of the role include :

  • Proactively identifying opportunities for research to inform product strategy and design decisions, and create alignment around those opportunities and results.
  • Working closely with product, design, and marketing in conducting generative and evaluative research.
  • Representing the voice and needs of our users through engaging with them on our platforms / channels such as Alida, Maze, and our internal UAP program.
  • Designing and facilitating internal workshops to gather information about new work or areas of focus.
  • Managing multiple research activities by effectively prioritizing and communicating those priorities and their implications with peers and partners.
  • Mentoring product designers in the research craft to democratize and enable research in the different pillars.

If you are right for his role, you probably have :

  • Deep experience conducting generative and evaluative, qualitative research using a variety of research methods.
  • Proficiency for in-person and remote workshop design and facilitation.
  • Strong presentation and storytelling skills.
  • Experience collaborating effectively with designers and members of other functional teams (Product, Tech, Business, Marketing, etc.).
  • Experience managing and / or mentoring other designers and researchers.

Nice to have skills :

  • Experience conducting research in a B2B setting (strongly preferred, but not required).
  • Experience working in highly-regulated industries (financial institutions, healthcare / pharma, etc.) and / or loyalty space.
  • Experience with our current tool set : Alida, Maze, Fable, Figma, Mural.
  • Experience in community management.

Did we pique your curiosity?

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