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interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

WHAT WE STAND FOR:

It’s simple … we want to help people confidently take control of their financial future, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength and be a workplace where we can all thrive. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight talking and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver. We are ambitious and passionate and encouraged to fight for what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves and interactive investor.

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

As a UX Research Lead, reporting to the UX Research Manager, you will be responsible for both leading a team of UX Researchers and driving research efforts. You will manage a diverse team of researchers across multiple squads, ensuring their professional growth and guiding them to deliver high-quality research. At the same time, you will actively design and conduct research using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to deepen our understanding of current and potential users, helping to create user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and high-performing. You will also collaborate closely with Product Managers to plan and deliver UX research roadmaps.

You will work in a team alongside other UX professionals, who are leading the user-centric product transformation of a financial services business. It is an exciting role that will make a real difference within an industry that is ripe for better design thinking and a user-centered focus.

Day to day, you’ll be collaborating with UX Designers, UX Copywriters, UX Researchers, Data Analysts, CRO, Product Owners, Product Managers, Developers, Testers, Customer Service Advisers, and stakeholders across the business.

Your research insights will need to inform, influence, and support cross functional teams in their quest to understand more about our users, which in turn will be used to generate ideas and highlight opportunities for our roadmaps that will help champion user driven decisions and improve the user experience.

THIS ROLE IS BASED IN MANCHESTER AND WOULD REQUIRE YOU TO WORK FROM THE OFFICE THREE DAYS PER WEEK.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the UXR Squad Roadmaps and oversee the work of UX researchers within your tribe
• Manage and lead a team of UX Researchers (Multi levels)
• Provide continuous feedback and guidance to UX Researchers at all stages of the research process
• Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality work, supporting the squad in maintaining an agile workflow.
• Work as part of the double diamond process
• Embed user research into our discovery and product development process working with Research, UX Designers, Analytics and the Product Owners and Product Managers.
• Deliver collaborative research sessions including set up, recruitment, moderation, data collection, analysis and debrief.
• Bring stakeholders along the end to end research journey, making research visible and engaging.
• Conduct primary and secondary user research using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritise and evaluate research topics.
• Plan and implement user research strategies and methodologies with UX managers and other team leads.
• Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written and oral presentations.
• Ability to ask and answer questions, gather, analyse and synthesise data.
• Use a diverse set of UX research tools such as UserZoom, Hotjar, Usabilla and Contentsquare.
• Provide support, guidance and coaching to designers, researchers, copy writers, product managers and UX & UI to up-skill them, and embed a user-first mindset.
• Drive accessibility within the UX Research team
• Implement research insights across the organisation
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Understand qualitative research methods
• Understand quantitative research methods
• User Research Methodologies such as User Interviews, Usability Testing, Diary studies, Competitor Research
• Ability to see patterns in research to help aid the designers
• Meticulous sense of detail and the ability to seek out simple solutions to complex challenges
• Ability to recruit users / customers
• Confidence speaking with stakeholders
• Resilience
• Collaborative approach to working with cross disciplinary teams

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

STRAIGHT TALKING | MOVING WITH SPEED | OWNING THE OUTCOME

• Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome

• Moving with speed – delivering faster and better

• Decisive and take ownership of outcomes

• Not afraid to challenge and be open to challenges

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