Responsibilities Define and establish cognitive, perceptual, and ergonomic insights and frameworks that help us understand tradeoffs & dependencies across business, experience, & technology workstreams Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative and some quantitative methods to create actionable insights across the product development lifecycle, including human factors evaluation and testing of designs and early prototypes, as well as UX evaluation and testing of more mature prototypes Work closely with partners (hardware engineering, industrial design, product management, privacy & security, and more) to ensure the product team is moving forward with a clear understand of the user problem space Effectively communicate with and present findings to a variety of audiences from product teams to executive leadership Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree with 7+ years' of relevant experience in user experience, applied research and/or product research and development or a Master's degree and 5+ years' relevant experience, or PhD and 2+ year relevant experience Relevant experience within user experience, applied research setting and/or product research and development Interest in and experience executing hands-on, primary research Experience translating research findings into strategic narratives Preferred Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) in relevant Human Factors and behavioural research areas such as cognitive science, HCI, industrial engineering, biomedical engineering, perceptual psychology, kinematics & biomechanics, or related fields Experience shipping consumer and wearable devices Experience combining qualitative and quantitative user data into cohesive insights Experience with wearable devices and inward/outward facing sensing technologies (e.g., eye-tracking, EMG, SLAM) Experience with experimental methodology, inferential statistics and modeling, kinematics analysis, EMG, EEG, eye-tracking and other approaches to measuring human performance