User Researcher, Care & Access

Gifthealth•Columbus, OH

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Gifthealth, we're revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. Our mission is to provide a seamless, personalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic, innovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives. We are seeking a User Researcher, Care & Access to own research across the people and workflows that make patient access and fulfillment possible. This position plays a key role in supporting the Product department and reports to Gifthealth's Sr. User Researcher, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, operational excellence, and compliance standards. Sometimes that means studying a product interface. Other times it means sitting alongside an internal team, following work across systems, talking with a prescriber office, going on-site, or combining firsthand research with operational data. A product team should be able to bring this researcher a problem that nobody completely understands ("This workflow isn't working the way we expected. What's actually happening?") and trust them to independently take it from "something seems wrong" to evidence the team can act on: where the problem actually sits, what the evidence supports, which parts are product-addressable, and what should happen next. This is a role for someone who likes entering complicated, imperfectly understood environments and making them legible. This role joins a growing research function inside the Product organization and will also work closely with Operations teams and other partners across the company.

Requirements

Typically 6+ years of research experience, with a track record of independently leading ambiguous product or service research.
Experience getting close to real workflows and understanding the difference between how a process is supposed to work and how it works in practice.
High agency: owns the path to an answer, not just the assigned task, and finds the people, evidence, access, or workaround needed to keep moving. Find a way or make one.
Comfort with ambiguity and speed: moves confidently when the question is messy, the timeline is short, or the evidence is incomplete, and knows how much research the decision actually requires.
AI-forward: assumes there is usually a faster or deeper way to work with AI and looks for it proactively, with strong judgment about when to trust, verify, or step outside the tool.
Claim discipline: precise about what the evidence does and does not support, and explicit about meaningful uncertainty.
Close to the work: prefers seeing how something actually happens over relying on process diagrams, secondhand descriptions, or assumptions.
Systems-minded: can study one workflow without losing sight of the larger system around it.
Strong research judgment and the ability to choose an approach based on the question rather than a preferred method.
Strong interviewing, observation, synthesis, and communication skills, with the ability to make complicated systems and evidence understandable without losing important nuance.
Experience influencing decisions across Product, Design, and operational teams; comfort working across qualitative, quantitative, behavioral, and operational evidence.
Must be able to work independently and remotely, with reliable internet access and a suitable environment for conducting interviews and moderated research sessions.
Must be able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with internal teams, prescriber offices, and cross-functional partners.
Must be able to observe and work alongside care, pharmacy, and fulfillment teams on-site, including in operational environments.
Must be able to travel regularly to Gifthealth's Columbus, Ohio operations for on-site research.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare, pharmacy, or patient-access experience is welcome but not required.
Experience with contextual inquiry, ethnographic research, service design, or field research.
Experience researching internal tools, complex workflows, or products spanning digital and offline interactions.
Experience in complex or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

Own research across internal care and case-management workflows, pharmacy operations, prescriber experiences, and field-facing products.
Independently turn ambiguous product and operational problems into clear research questions and determine what evidence is needed to answer them.
Get close to how work actually happens through interviews, observation, contextual and field research, usability testing, and other methods appropriate to the problem, including on-site research with Gifthealth teams in Columbus.
Partner with Product and Design early enough for research to shape the problem and direction, not just evaluate a proposed solution.
Connect firsthand research with operational and quantitative evidence to distinguish symptoms from underlying causes.
Synthesize across tools and workflows to identify larger patterns, problems, and opportunities that no single product surface reveals.
Build enough context and ongoing relationships in these areas to surface important questions before they become urgent requests.