Sr. UX Researcher , Amazon Customer Service

Amazon • Austin, TX

1d • $152,200 - $205,900 • Onsite

About The Position

At Amazon we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company - which starts with Amazon Customer Service (CS). We are seeking a Senior UX Researcher to re-imagine Amazon's Customer Service automation experiences. Your ability to synthesize complex research findings, metrics, and business requirements into clear design narratives will be crucial for building alignment and driving change. This role is crucial in shaping how Amazon understands and responds to customer needs at scale. Success requires both creative problem-solving and strategic communication to drive meaningful improvements to the customer experience.

As a Senior UX Researcher for the Customer facing automation product space, you will plan and execute a research roadmap to inform the vision of automation products that leverage AI capabilities to help customer resolve issues and drive proactive solutions. You will produce insights to develop best-in-class experiences (including user interface designs, user flows, interaction models, and lightweight prototypes) in a fast-paced, startup-like environment. Working closely with product management, engineering, and the UX team, you'll take projects from early-stage concepts to launch. You are a pragmatic researcher who can translate complex data into actionable insights that serve diverse internal users, from business analysts to senior leadership.

This role will be responsible for designing and conducting generative and evaluative user research on next-generation experiences for customer service contact handling. This team is looking for an experienced UX Researcher with a deep understanding of design research methods and how to apply them during the product development cycle. The candidate should have demonstrated experience owning and prioritizing a research roadmap based on organizational needs, and designing, running, and communicating user research to the design team, product, tech, and leadership. The candidate should understand that collaborative work, and both giving and getting feedback early and often, leads to the best work outcomes. They will work closely with the studio's team of researchers who partner with other customer service verticals, with designers and product managers within their vertical, and content designers to solve highly ambiguous and multi-faceted problems. This role includes the intellectual challenge of simplifying highly technical problems in elegantly simple ways that can make customer interactions effortless and intuitive.

Requirements

• 5+ years of proven success leading User Research projects with demonstrated impact experience
• 5+ years of hands-on work with: field research, ethnography, lab-based user testing, remote testing, paper prototype testing, iterative prototype testing, concept testing, and survey design experience
• Bachelor's degree in HCDE, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field
• Experience with behavioral data collection, quantitative data analysis, and statistics
• Have a portfolio demonstrating past work experience and deliverables (e.g., study plans, reports, personas)

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Human Factors, HCDE, Cognitive Psychology or equivalent
• Experience in a technical field (software development, network development, IT, other related)
• Experience with UX Research in non-US markets
• Experience working in a highly Agile/Scrum environment

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with design and product teams to understand blockers, prioritize multiple stakeholders' needs, and build a research road path
• Communicate and refresh plans on a regular basis to ensure relevancy
• Identify the best qualitative methods based on research questions, timelines, and resourcing
• Define and execute (and, when necessary, invent) research methods appropriate to the questions at hand, including, but not limited to, interviews, observations, surveys, usability testing, and heuristic evaluations
• Synthesize primary and secondary data types and perform quick yet thorough analyses, leading to focused, insightful, and actionable findings
• Build upon existing research/frameworks that other team members have conducted

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior