UX Research Lead

WHO WE ARE: interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We have been helping investors for nearly 30 years, and we are now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers.

WHAT WE STAND FOR: We want to help people confidently take control of their financial future. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight talking and transparent with our customers and colleagues. We are ambitious and passionate and encouraged to fight for what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves and interactive investor.

PURPOSE OF ROLE: As a UX Research Lead, reporting to the UX Research Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of UX Researchers and driving research efforts. You will manage a diverse team of researchers across multiple squads, ensuring their professional growth and guiding them to deliver high-quality research. You will actively design and conduct research using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to deepen our understanding of current and potential users, helping to create user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and high-performing. You will also collaborate closely with Product Managers to plan and deliver UX research roadmaps.

Your research insights will need to inform, influence, and support cross-functional teams in their quest to understand more about our users, which in turn will be used to generate ideas and highlight opportunities for our roadmaps that will help champion user-driven decisions and improve the user experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the UXR Squad Roadmaps and oversee the work of UX researchers within your tribe.
• Manage and lead a team of UX Researchers (Multi levels).
• Provide continuous feedback and guidance to UX Researchers at all stages of the research process.
• Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality work, supporting the squad in maintaining an agile workflow.
• Work as part of the double diamond process.
• Embed user research into our discovery and product development process working with Research, UX Designers, Analytics and the Product Owners and Product Managers.
• Deliver collaborative research sessions including set up, recruitment, moderation, data collection, analysis and debrief.
• Conduct primary and secondary user research using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritise and evaluate research topics.
• Plan and implement user research strategies and methodologies with UX managers and other team leads.
• Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written and oral presentations.
• Use a diverse set of UX research tools such as UserZoom, Hotjar, Usabilla and Contentsquare.
• Provide support, guidance and coaching to designers, researchers, copywriters, product managers and UX & UI to up-skill them, and embed a user-first mindset.
• Drive accessibility within the UX Research team.
• Implement research insights across the organisation.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Leadership & Mentoring skills.
• Understand qualitative research methods.
• Understand quantitative research methods.
• User Research Methodologies such as User Interviews, Usability Testing, Diary studies, Competitor Research.
• Great communication skills.
• A can-do, proactive attitude.
• Ability to see patterns in research to help aid the designers.
• Meticulous sense of detail and the ability to seek out simple solutions to complex challenges.
• Report writing.
• Ability to recruit users/customers.
• Confidence speaking with stakeholders.
• Resilience.
• Collaborative approach to working with cross-disciplinary teams.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Clear communicator.
• Strong team player.
• Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome.
• Decisive and take ownership of outcomes.
• Not afraid to challenge and be open to challenges.

THIS ROLE IS BASED IN MANCHESTER AND WOULD REQUIRE YOU TO WORK FROM THE OFFICE THREE DAYS PER WEEK.