User Experience (UX) Researcher
CONTRACT ROLE - 12+ MONTHS
At Remitly, we help immigrant communities around the world send $6 billion a year to their loved ones. Sending money is faster, easier, and costs less with our all-digital money transfer platform. Our vision is to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial service products on the planet. At Remitly, your work has a direct and positive impact on people around the globe. Your work matters, every day.
The Consumer Insights team is core to customer centricity. Using diverse research methods, the team develops deep understandings of the global Remitly audience, increasing the relevance and impact of every touchpoint. We provide insights for Product and Marketing teams across the company, driving short-term and long-term growth. We keep one eye on the needs of our current customers and one on the hundreds of millions we have yet to reach.
We are looking for a contract User Experience (UX) Researcher to lead information gathering and analyses, from unmoderated tests to getting out in the field with our customers. The role will last for one year and be highly visible in our global organization. If you are curious about people, like working on a variety of projects, have a habit of poking around and taking ownership, and enjoy seeing a tangible impact from your work, this role is for you.
Your role:
You will enable Remitly to better understand current and potential customers: Who are they? How can we solve problems for them? How can we improve existing product experiences? You will apply creative solutions and figure out ways to glean insights using a range of techniques: unmoderated and moderated usability tests, card sorting, co-creation, interviews, observations, journey mapping, and more. You will explore brand-new terrain, compare versions of our product, and evaluate where we are succeeding and where we can improve. You will champion the voice of the customer.
Remitly is a highly collaborative environment, and you will work across a range of teams and roles, especially UX designers and product managers. You will evangelize product research and consult and train various teams in best practices. You will move quickly, adding velocity to design sprints. Your work will help to lead Remitly strategy and direction.
In this role, you will operate with a range of freedom and flexibility. You will anticipate needs and drive strategy, as well as respond to stakeholders’ requests. You will decide what is relevant to pass on, and distill that information into actionable recommendations.
You will be part of a team of empathetic partners who collaborate and support one another. This role will offer you plenty of opportunities to learn, grow, and develop your research toolkit.
Specific responsibilities:
- Plan, recruit for, and conduct user research for product teams using methods such as usability lab studies, competitive evaluations, participatory design sessions, surveys, and interviews
- Conduct ad hoc and recurring studies (e.g., weekly or biweekly tests, regular and ad hoc sprints)
- Consult with and support various stakeholders, especially UX design team
- Examine various sources of primary user data with tools like SQL to provide background for various studies
- Recruit participants
- Report key findings, highlighting how customer experience affects business results, and provide actionable recommendations
- Keep up to date with UX research techniques and emerging research tools
Basic qualifications:
- 2–4 years of UX research experience in consumer-facing (B2C) roles
- Proficiency with English and Spanish
- Expertise in a range of user research techniques—including usability studies, journey mapping, card sorting, tree tests, interviews, surveys, experiments, and observations—and the drive to learn new techniques as needed
- Ability to turn complex problems into simple hypotheses and study recommendations
- Self-directed, thriving in ambiguous environments
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects with varying degrees of complexity
- Excellent writing and speaking skills
- Ability to communicate data-based decisions to individual contributors as well as leadership
Preferences:
- Strong background in human-centered design
- Professional experience conducting cross-cultural research
- Advanced degree or UX certifications
Who we are:
Remitly is the largest independent digital remittance company headquartered in the United States, transferring over $6 billion in annualized volume from its customers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia to loved ones throughout the world. The company’s proprietary global transfer network includes its easy-to-use mobile app, which makes the process of sending money faster, easier, more transparent and less costly by eliminating the forms, codes, agents, extra time and fees typical of the traditional, century-old money transfer process. Remitly is backed by industry-leading investors, World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), Naspers’ PayU, Silicon Valley Bank, Stripes Group, DFJ, DN Capital, QED Investors, Trilogy Equity Partners, Bezos Expeditions, Founders’ Co-Op, and TomorrowVentures. The company is headquartered in Seattle, with additional offices in London, the Philippines, and Nicaragua. For more information, visit https://www.remitly.com.
Remitly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals seeking employment at Remitly are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Remitly is an eVerify Employer.