Offers “General Electric”

Expires soon General Electric

Sr UX Design Researcher

  • Internship
  • Seattle (King)

Job description



3400165
Additional Cities

Seattle
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Healthcare
Business Segment

Healthcare Digital
Function

Digital Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

Washington
Postal Code

98104-1157
Role Summary/Purpose

As a Sr UX Researcher, you will contribute to the understanding of our customers and the users of our products. You understand and champion the importance of research to the design process and act as an active member of the user experience team. As a UX Researcher you will execute on multiple small to medium sized projects as an individual contributor with a focus on user research.
Essential Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

·  Contribute to the discovery, execution, analysis, and synthesis of user research

·  Advocate for user research and help champion buy in from stakeholders and businesses

·  Participate in discussions and activities related to current research projects

·  Contribute to effective documentation of research and testing including notes, photos, video and resulting analysis

·  Begin to lead evaluation of current and emerging design, technology, industry, and market trends

·  Display mastery of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor’s Degree in User Experience, Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)

·  A minimum of 7 years' experience OR a Master's Degree with 4 year's of experience
Eligibility Requirements:

·  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

·  Must be willing to travel up to 30% of the time.

·  Must be willing to work out of an office located in Seattle, WA when not traveling
Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

·  Leads and recommends both short- and long-term research activities, contributing to the creation of a research plan

·  Conducts qualitative and quantitative research activities such as ethnographic studies and usability studies

·  Creates and communicates research artifacts, findings, reports, and recommendations with stakeholder

·  Participates in planning of research topics and usability tests and contributes to the analysis and synthesis of research findings

·  Contributes to management of usage analytics and Voice of the Customer solutions, mining usage data, and communicating findings to stakeholders

·  High attention to detail; extremely strong written and verbal communication skills

·  Deep knowledge of research tools such as Morae Observer, Camtasia, Axure, InVision, and Omniture
Business Acumen:

·  Knows key cross-functional concepts that impact the company, business priorities, & organizational dynamics.

·  Keeps current on industry landscape and brings new ideas to the team. Maps industry trends to internal vision.

·  Joins and participates in industry associations and conferences.

·  Explain to various stakeholders through the design thinking process to frame a project and creates artifacts to facilitate shared understanding of business benefit.

·  Understands key principles of design thinking and research, what it is and why it is important. Explores all ideas, regardless of their source.

·  Identifies new project opportunities based on design thinking principles and prior outcomes.

·  Understands that designing, validating, developing and deploying products and services for infrastructure-level domains requires attention to complexities between systems.
Leadership:

·  Translates user-centered design requirements into technical implementations for projects. Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives.

·  Keeps participants focused on task and end process. Guides participation to include all present; solicits information about absent stakeholders.

·  Expresses technology options to collaborators on cross functional teams. Goes beyond merely suggesting design technologies and clearly articulates the rationale and benefit of design technology choices.

·  Understands the value of a rigorous and transparent decision-making process.
Personal Attributes:

·  Works with cross-functional teams and cross-business teams and assist in driving broad-reaching solutions across the function / business.

·  Influences change through others and begins to set a vision for future change; evangelizes the practice of interaction design to GE business leaders.

·  Understands the skills necessary for contributing to constructive conversations utilizing active listening and validating the information needs of stakeholders and users.

·  Demonstrates a deep passion for learning and courage to push the boundaries of one’s own thinking.

·  Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain

·  Demonstrates the ability to connect, extract information, and communicate with customer groups

·  Asks questions appropriate to translating an abstract problem into a roadmap for identifying solutions

·  Pilots new ideas and processes that have not been utilized before.
About Us

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Primary Country

United States
Primary State/Province

Washington
Primary City

Seattle

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