UX Researcher II- #26-18602

Duration: 12+ months
Description:

We're seeking an experienced UX Researcher to own and execute research for third-party VR/MR games on Meta Quest. You'll act as the research lead for assigned titles -- partnering with game studios, production, publishing, and the internal UXR team to turn player insight into shipping decisions across the development lifecycle.

- Remote Position, Pacific Time, Occasional Travel (Seattle, Bellevue)

Key Responsibilities:

• Own assigned titles end-to-end: scope questions, write research plans and discussion guides, recruit, moderate, analyze, and deliver reports and readouts -- often on a fast turnaround.
• Run both 1:1 usability studies and large-N benchmark/measurement studies, in-lab (in Seattle or Bellevue).
• Partner with production and publishing teams as primary stakeholders -- align studies to greenlight/milestone decisions and present insights that shape sourcing, design, and content strategy.
• Coordinate and collaborate with a shared team research schedule. Handoff and take on titles as milestones and priorities shift.
• Participate in peer review of teammates' plans and reports.
• Manage research vendors/participants and study logistics (device/hardware setup, session materials).

Qualifications:

• 4 years UX research, incl. moderating and turning qualitative data into actionable insight.
• Full-cycle execution: planning, recruitment, moderation, analysis, report writing, stakeholder presentation.
• Interviews, usability testing, and games playtesting.
• Designing and analyzing surveys / quantitative data.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Psychology, HCI, or related field.

Additional Preferred Requirements:

• Video game and/or VR user research experience
• Experience working with gestures based input such as hands or body inputs.
• Benchmark/measurement methods; comfort using AI tools to speed analysis

Requirements:

• Works independently; owns timelines across multiple concurrent studies.
• Strong communication, storytelling, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Data-literate -- uses numbers to define and support hypotheses.
• Able to wear a VR headset for extended work sessions.

Top 3 Must Have:

• Research design & study planning - Scope the research questions and design the study -- research plans, discussion guides, recruit specs, and the right method for the milestone (usab
• In-lab and remote moderation & fielding - Moderate sessions in real time either online or in person with a variety of audience types.
• Analysis & reporting - Synthesize qual (and quant) data into clear, decision-ready reports and readouts on a fast turnaround, with storytelling that surfaces the friction points that matter to devs and stakeholders.

Top 3 Nice to Have:

• VR or PC/Console gaming domain expertise.
• Quant / benchmark & measurement methods -- large-N benchmarks survey design/analysis
• Rapid, AI-assisted reporting workflows -- leveraging AI tools to speed research planning, analysis, and reporting

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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