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Principal UX Researcher
Redmond, WA
Job Description
OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is seeking a Principal User Experience (UX) Researcher. This team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is tobuild the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. As the Principal UX Researcher for the Data Cloud Studio Research team you will be responsible for becoming an expert in the motivations, workflows, and habits of data professionals and bring that expertise to the strategy, design, and growth of the many products and services in the data cloud suite. Our UX Research team takes a multi-methods approach combining expertise and creativity with both quantitative and qualitative methods with big data analysis to identify emerging patterns and usage, and uncover user insights, unarticulated needs, and new product/service priorities. Our approach to product experience optimization is important, ongoing, and rigorous.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with a high-performing UX Research team with expertise in all types of research including qualitative, survey, usability, metrics, plus partnering with big data experts for analyses of behavioral data.Foster relationships with PM and design teams throughout the Azure Data Organization so you stay close to our cross functional partners and their challenges.Conduct a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research activities to inform product design, including but not limited to ethnographic explorations, usability studies, heuristic evaluations, interviews, contextual inquiry, surveys, user journey maps, benchmarks or any method that answers the most important research questions.Create insight syntheses and connect these to product leaders through stories and other creative means to incite product growth directions.Snap to organization-wide priorities and success criteria to design and execute a research program that meets the organization's needs. Embody our culture and values
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with a high-performing UX Research team with expertise in all types of research including qualitative, survey, usability, metrics, plus partnering with big data experts for analyses of behavioral data.Foster relationships with PM and design teams throughout the Azure Data Organization so you stay close to our cross functional partners and their challenges.Conduct a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research activities to inform product design, including but not limited to ethnographic explorations, usability studies, heuristic evaluations, interviews, contextual inquiry, surveys, user journey maps, benchmarks or any method that answers the most important research questions.Create insight syntheses and connect these to product leaders through stories and other creative means to incite product growth directions.Snap to organization-wide priorities and success criteria to design and execute a research program that meets the organization's needs. Embody our culture and values
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Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
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