UX Researcher - Manchester, UK

This job is with Capgemini, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

About the Job you are considering: We are seeking experienced UX Researchers with strong expertise in the banking domain who will oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role: The User Experience Researcher will be primarily responsible for management of the research team, implementation and management of research processes, overseeing and assigning appropriate workloads, sprint planning, and ensuring the team is working efficiently and in line with the SME priorities. Responsibilities include:

• Providing roadmaps and timelines of completion for project work with strategic insight.
• Supervision and collaboration on designing, conducting, analysing, and reporting on user-centred design research and usability testing for the Client channels.
• Identification of user needs and goals, task and workflow modelling, ethnography, persona development, as well as rapid iterative usability testing and more formal in-depth testing.
• Mentoring and managing a team of UX professionals and working without supervision on multiple concurrent projects.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: Focus on the targets and outcomes. As a Senior UX Researcher for the Bank, you will be accountable for:

• Managing the UX research team and assuming responsibility for outputs and deliverables.
• Working alongside the Digital Performance Optimisation Lead to define, implement, and champion user-centred design strategy and processes.
• Ownership of the SME Customer Research Panel recruitment, engagement, and controls.
• Designing and conducting usability research both online and in the field and providing recommendations for improvement.
• Serving as a member of a team that acts as a repository of research-based usability knowledge.
• Working with project stakeholders and team members to test business requirements using the most appropriate method.
• Leading, developing, and motivating the UX Research Team.
• Determining user needs by conducting in-depth analysis across a range of research practices.
• Working with Content Designers to test proposed look and feel initiatives.
• Managing and developing other researchers to assure and improve research practice.
• Leading moderated user testing and workshops.
• Observing the UX Team conducting user testing and workshops to ensure they are done in a compliant and effective way, providing feedback as appropriate.
• Promoting user-centred design principles and best practice across Digital SME and the Bank, developing a culture of research first.
• Conducting in-house research to test new product and concept developments including user requirements gathering and early-stage concept and prototype testing.

Your Skills: TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES reflect the qualifications and level and extent of knowledge required to successfully perform the role:

• Team member management.
• Usability moderating all types, particularly one-on-one.
• Experimental design.
• Test method selection.
• Statistical qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Presentations, verbal and written.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Essential:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral.
• Excellent relationship skills, able to operate effectively with internal stakeholders and with external suppliers and partners.
• Proven experience of mentorship and management skills.
• Proven experience of effective time management of self and others.
• Ability to impact assess workload and manage delivery expectations and deadlines appropriately.
• Choose appropriate methods and advise on the application of research methods to assure best practice.
• High level of customer focus and understanding of customer needs.
• Experienced in usability test moderating all types, particularly one-on-one.
• Participant recruiting and screener creation.
• Proven experience of managing, executing, and analysing usability test sessions.
• Proven experience of working in an agile development environment with User Experience teams, designers, and developers to create new digital products and services.
• Demonstrable ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to innovate and create effective change.
• Precise and high attention to detail.
• Be passionate about uses of information architecture, usability, and accessibility.
• Experience within a research and digital environment.
• Uses strategic insight and aligns user research activities to inform decision making and action.

We are a Disability Confident Employer: Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Make It Real: You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing, we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications, and much more.

You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini: Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology, and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering, and business operations.