Job Title: UX Researcher
Contract: 5 Months
Location: Nairobi
Profile Introduction: Our client, a Multinational Technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products seeks to bring on board a UX Researcher.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Coordinate with UX Research lead and team members to understand and prioritize UX research needs.
- Plan, design, and conduct UX research to inform requirements and assess usefulness and usability of projects.
- Evolve traditional research methods to suit the fast-paced and ever evolving domain of language technology.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders, product managers, engineers, and designers to gather insights, build consensus around user needs, and deliver excellent solutions.
- Make research findings convincing and actionable for both research experts and non-experts.
- Identify and define new opportunities based on insights gathered.
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.A. / B.S. (completed) degree in Anthropology, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Social Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Product Design, or another field in human behaviour, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience working with other researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers across product areas/teams
- Experience in UX research, utilizing methods including usability studies, contextual inquiry, and surveys
- Fluency in Amharic and Oromo.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s or PhD in Anthropology, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Social Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Product Design, or other fields emphasizing human behaviour.
- Experience leveraging a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods and analysis techniques in interdisciplinary environments.
- Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and adapt to changing schedules and priorities.
- Experience with NLP (Natural language processing)
How to Apply
If you are qualified and up to the challenge, please send your CV to vacancies @stratostaff.co.ke by 5 p.m, 1st September 2022.