Senior Associate-UX Researcher

The Enterprise Design & Research team is responsible for deepening customer engagement through our digital experiences across app, web, and push channels. The team is a group of talented, passionate, multi-disciplinary members based in New York, Phoenix, and London. Our mission is to increase digital engagement, customer satisfaction, and revenue through a combination of a superior user experience and compelling features. Researchers at Amex help to elevate understanding of our users across UX, product, and engineering, and play a critical role in building the world's best user experience.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As a Senior Associate UX Researcher, you'll lead research projects or specific research activities for the team at large, and facilitate research efforts with our vendor partners across product journeys and domains. You will have the opportunity to work hands-on with a variety of data collection and sense-making methods, and to present findings to a variety of audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate research activities, handling specific activities on larger projects, coordinating studies with our vendor partners, and handling studies from start to finish with guidance as needed from a more senior member of the team.
• Work with designers and product managers to establish research objectives and align on the approach.
• Execute evaluative studies using a variety of methods and triangulate data from across multiple sources.
• Contribute to the creation of research artifacts that bring user needs and insights to life.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align research objectives with broader business goals and decisions.
• Initiate the creation of new templates and toolkits that aid researchers in their work.
• Build expertise in the end-to-end research process and diligently maintain compliance with data privacy and tooling standards.

Qualifications

• You have at least 2 years of hands-on experience in research, proficiency in using research tools like dscout and User Testing, and you can demonstrate your understanding of fundamental UX research theories, principles and concepts.
• You are comfortable moderating sessions with participants, and you enjoy finding ways to make unmoderated tests truly effective.
• You are a proactive, energetic communicator who takes pride in producing high quality written artifacts and communications (e.g., research reports, Slack messages, emails). You have a clear and engaging verbal presentation style that you are eager to put to use.
• You approach your work, your colleagues, and your life with curiosity, humility, respect, and an openness to learning.

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries.
• Bonus incentives.
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location).
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need.
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location).
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location).
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program.
• Career development and training opportunities.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.