Senior Quant UX Researcher

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in Mountain View, San Francisco or New York.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our global User Experience Research (UXR) team advances this vision by discovering actionable insights to inform and inspire the design of quality, inclusive products. We're passionate about designing an equal, fair, and accessible platform that’s modern, engaging, and responsible.

Our products help professionals all over the world stay connected, informed, and productive. The LinkedIn ecosystem is about more than just job hunting. We create and support active communities and enterprise products around sales, marketing, learning, and recruiting. Our team uses a wide range of research methods across the product development lifecycle. We pride ourselves on the rigor of our work, and also encourage experimentation as we connect the dots between user insights, design patterns, and business goals.

Why join the User Experience Research team at LinkedIn?

• We have an impact. We are strong partners to Design and Product, influencing at every level, from shaping early strategy, to launching new features, to measuring usability. 
• We are creative. We value and encourage a mixed-method approach to addressing the most important and most human questions facing our teams.
• We are inclusive. We insist on centering trust, ethics, justice, and equity in every aspect of our work.
• We are supported. We have a dedicated operations team to cover scheduling, vendor onboarding, and more
• We thrive on feedback. We’re an eclectic and experienced team--some of the best in the industry! We also love to learn with and from each other as we strive to be our best and grow in our careers.
• We are a strong team. We enjoy a trusting, open environment and a healthy culture of gratitude…and we have fun together!

We’re looking for Researchers to join our team of critical thinkers and curious minds, to work with us in partnership and collaboration with product design, content design, product management, engineering, marketing, market research, and data science. Building products for the world's workforce takes a bold, diverse, empowered team — come be a part of ours.

Learn more about our community at design.linkedin.com

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What you'll do at Linkedin

• Drive Strategic Research Initiatives – Partner with Design, Product, Data Science, Strategic Finance, and Marketing teams to deeply understand business objectives and design rigorous, user-focused research studies that inform decision-making.
• Develop Innovative Measurement Strategies – Uncover insights about user behavior and experience by applying sophisticated methodologies, experimentation, and mixed-methods research to drive actionable recommendations.
• Integrate & Synthesize Insights – Collaborate with other Insight Generating Functions (IGFs) at LinkedIn (e.g., Data Analytics, POM, Market Research) to triangulate data from multiple sources and develop a holistic understanding of user needs.
• Influence Product & Business Strategy – Deliver compelling, data-driven narratives that shape product development, influence executive decision-making, and drive user-centric business outcomes.
• Ensure Scientific & Statistical Rigor – Apply strong scientific and statistical judgment to generate high-quality, reliable insights in a fast-paced environment, setting a high technical standard for research excellence.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in quantitative or mixed-methods user research, design research, or behavioral science.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Anthropology, Sociology, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related field—or equivalent industry e