Staff UX Researcher - Mixed Methods

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 either 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 uncovers actionable insights to inspire the design of inclusive, high-quality products. We are committed to creating an equal, accessible, and engaging platform that supports professionals worldwide in staying connected, informed, and productive.

Beyond job hunting, LinkedIn fosters active communities and enterprise solutions in sales, marketing, learning, and recruiting. Using diverse research methods throughout the product lifecycle, we balance rigorous analysis with experimentation to align user insights, design patterns, and business goals.

Why join the User Experience Research team at LinkedIn?

• We are impact-driven. 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 growth oriented. We’re an eclectic and experienced team--some of the best in the industry! We love to learn with and from each other as we strive to be our best and grow in our careers.
• We are mixed methods. We value and encourage a mixed-method approach to addressing the most important and most human questions facing our teams.
• We are supported. We have a dedicated operations team to cover scheduling, vendor onboarding, and more.
• We are inclusive. We insist on centering trust, ethics, justice, and equity in every aspect of our work.

We’re looking for a Researcher 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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in user or design research at a high growth technology company.
• Expertise utilizing a variety of qualitative research methodologies (e.g. interviews, focus groups, co-design sessions, concept testing) to address product challenges spanning from opportunity identification, concept testing, to feature iterations.
• Expertise utilizing a variety of quantitative research methodologies (e.g. surveys, experiments, statistical analysis) and tools (e.g., SQL, R, Qualtrics) to address product challenges spanning from opportunity identification, user-centered investigations, to feature iterations.
• A proven track record of gaining buy-in from executive stakeholders and cross disciplinary partners, transcending mere research mechanics and findings to articulate a larger user story, and the “so what” to drive impact.
• Ability to independently create and execute research roadmaps for large-scale, complex projects with high levels of ambiguity or complexity. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Consistent experience of amplifying and maturing UX practices through advocacy and thought leadership across an organization, industry, or academic discipline.
• Deep understanding of common and emerging research methods, with the ability to create multi-method research plans backed by solid rationale.
• Degree in Behavioral Science, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, a related field – or equivalent experience.

Suggested Skills: 

• Technical Knowledge of UX Research methods and practices
• Strong product and business acumen
• Strong visual, verbal, and written communication

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $146,000 to $238,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factor