Principal User Researcher

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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. 

 

About our team: 

We’re a diverse group of user researchers on a mission to help SAP users become more efficient at work. We are primarily located in Palo Alto, USA, and Walldorf, Germany. Our backgrounds span several areas such as cognitive sciences, human factors, design, and business. Our insights impact several lines of business across SAP and millions of users across the globe.  

 

What you’ll do: 

In this leadership role, you will be at the forefront of understanding our users' needs, behaviors, and motivations. As a Senior User Researcher, you will become an expert on our users, uncovering valuable insights that will elevate our product experiences. You will lead end-to-end research projects, from designing studies and conducting research to analyzing data and translating your findings into actionable insights. These insights will influence product strategy and roadmaps to ensure our products meet user expectations and enhance user satisfaction. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to integrate research findings throughout the product lifecycle. Additionally, you will play a pivotal role in fostering a research-driven culture across the organization, ensuring every important decision is backed by a deep understanding of our users. 

 

What you bring: 

You have substantial experience in user research, with comprehensive expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. You have a proven ability to translate data into clear, actionable insights that drive product strategy and design. Strong communication and presentation skills are essential, as you'll need to convey research findings to a variety of stakeholders, including design leadership and executives. A passion for user-centered design and a commitment to staying current with industry trends and best practices will be critical in ensuring the success of our products and the satisfaction of our users. 

 

  

Expectations and tasks 

• Develop working relationships with product and design teams to gain an understanding of the product portfolio and existing end-to-end experience 

• Lead proactive research efforts to uncover issues in the current customer experience, as well as to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation 

• Work with researchers and data analysts to shape insights into a narrative to explain where problems and opportunities in the experience are, and what collaborations across the business are needed to act 

• Collaborate with product and design leaders, as well as leaders across the business (e.g. professional services and customer support) to create strategies to improve the end-to-end customer experience 

• Help business leaders use measurement frameworks to develop success metrics to ensure experience improvements deliver value to SAP customers 

• Work with stakeholders to monitor success metrics and help design and product leaders continuously improve the experience 

  

About you 

• Advanced degree in a relevant field 

• 5+ years of experience in user research across product development lifecycle stages 

• Proficient in a wide variety of user research methods and able to mix and apply methods to answer research questions 

• Excellent communications skills; fluency in English is required 

• Strong data synthesis/analysis and data storytelling skills 

• Strong project management skills 

• Experience with B2B software a plus 

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Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic a