User Experience Researcher

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.User Experience Researcher Responsibilities

• Work closely with product and business teams to identify research topics.
• Act as a thought leader in the domain of research, while advocating for the people who could use our products.
• Designs studies that dress both user behavior and attitudes.
• Generate insights that both fuel ideation and evaluate designs.
• Conduct research using a wide variety of methods, and interpret analysis through the lens of UX, HCI, and social science.
• Collaborate closely with other UX researchers to leverage and build upon knowledge.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners (product management, data science, analytics, business, design, engineering, etc) to identify and prioritize knowledge gaps in our understanding of the Meta experience and design research that uniquely contributes to solving for those knowledge gaps.
• Partner with engineering, analysts' and other technical roles to create and share research.
• Communicate results and illustrate suggestions in compelling and creative ways.
• Telecommute from anywhere in the US permitted.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science, HCI, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Information Science, Economics, Political Science, Mathematics, or related field and one year of work experience in job offered or in a user experience/research or computer-related occupation.
  Requires one year of experience in the following:
• 1. Qualitative and user-centered research methods (eg, interviewing, ethnography, co-design, concept-testing)
• 2. Analytics, project management, and problem-solving
• 3. Communicating research findings and implications to product audiences
• 4. Autonomy and independent decision making to weigh tradeoffs and balance demands
• 5. Generating insights that shape how product teams think about short, medium and long-term product strategy
• 6. Partnering with product management, content design, design, data science, engineering, marketing, and other technical roles to conduct and share research.

LocationsAbout Meta Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics. Meta is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com. $197,372/year to $221,540/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.