At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead user research to shape customer experiences and influence business decisions.
- Company: Join BT, a leading tech company with a flexible working culture.
- Benefits: Tailored benefits, including bonuses, healthcare, and generous leave policies.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic and supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on customer journeys while developing your research skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in user research and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
Location(s): Birmingham or London
Flexible Working: The BT group operates a 3 together, 2 wherever working model. This means you are required to be at your contractual location 3 days a week with 2 flexible days per week.
About the role: As a User Researcher Specialist, you will operate as a key contributor and influencer within the BT Consumer Brand user research team. You will combine deep hands-on research expertise with strong judgement to help shape research direction, prioritisation and standards across complex customer journeys. This role goes beyond delivery, requiring you to proactively identify opportunities, guide stakeholders towards the right research approach and ensure insight is clearly linked to both customer experience and business performance. You will also support team capability and act as a senior voice within the research community.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead end-to-end user research, from shaping the problem through to synthesis and recommendations, using a broad range of methods.
- Proactively identify and prioritise research opportunities based on data, insight, customer behaviour and business performance.
- Work closely with stakeholders to challenge briefs, define the right research approach and ensure clarity on what research can and cannot answer.
- Join up insight across initiatives and journeys, helping teams build a shared understanding of customer needs and behaviours.
- Coach and support more junior researchers, role-modelling high standards and contributing to team capability and quality assurance.
- Clearly communicate findings, recommendations and impact to varied audiences, linking insight to outcomes and decision-making.
Essential Skills / Experience:
- Strong hands-on experience delivering user research in consumer or digital organisations.
- Broad knowledge of research methods and clear judgement on when and how to apply them.
- Ability to link research insight to commercial and performance outcomes.
- Confident stakeholder management with the ability to influence and push back constructively.
- Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing.
Desirable Skills / Experience:
- Experience working across end-to-end customer journeys, including brand and communications touchpoints.
- Experience supporting research strategy or acting as a deputy for research leadership.
- Strong accessibility and inclusive research experience.
- Experience working alongside analytics, insight or data teams.
Our Package: Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:
- 10% on target annual bonus.
- Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family.
- Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off.
- Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay.
- Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband.
- Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
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