Facebook

UX Researcher - Mixed Method

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Los Angeles, CA

Job Description

Consumer-Business Ecosystems (CBE) is a team within Facebook that strives to create economic value by connecting consumers and businesses. These days that includes helping consumers find essential businesses such as restaurants, grocery stores, and pharmacies within their communities. CBE is also helping to connect dislocated workers with essential jobs and employers who are hiring during these times such as medical workers, delivery drivers, and warehouse workers. We are looking for a purpose driven Mixed Methods UX Researcher to help CBE identify how to drive greater value across the consumers and businesses we support globally. This role will be an integral part of the product development process, and this person will design, execute and deliver high-impact research. The right candidates will be excellent communicators, knowledgeable about product development and design, curious about the relationship between technology and society, comfortable in a fast-moving organization, excited to collaborate, and passionate about understanding and helping people. If this sounds like you, come join us as we work to solve complex and meaningful problems for people around the world!

UX Researcher - Mixed Method Responsibilities

* Act as a product thought leader and research expert, advocating for the people and businesses who could use our products.

* Develop and gain alignment on research roadmaps that will have the biggest impact on meeting business goals.

* Design and execute studies that address both user behavior and attitudes, using the right methodology for the right questions.

* Generate insights that shape how product teams think about medium and long-term product strategy.

Minimum Qualifications

* 3+ years of experience in applied product research

* Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative user-centered research methods (e.g., interviewing, ethnography, surveys, co-design, concept-testing, etc.)

* BA/BS in Computer Science, HCI, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Information Science, Economics, Political Science, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

* A strategic thinker who can connect the big picture to tactical changes

* Experience in engaging and influencing cross functional experts

* Proficient at providing clarity and progressing in ambiguous environments

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About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

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Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.