Senior User Researcher
Bupa, Salford Quays, Salford
Senior User Researcher
£50000
Bupa, Salford Quays, Salford
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 9 Nov | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 38b5ea677f0d4bf38628451a9109de77
Full Job Description
We consider all types of flexibility wherever possible, including locations, hours and working patterns. We make health happen You'll sit alongside a passionate and talented multi-disciplinary experience design team, made up of user researchers, product designers, content designers and design operations, who are focused on creating the best digital experiences for Bupa's customers in the UK. You'll plan, design, and lead research activities with users that help teams get a deep understanding of the people that use Bupa's products and services. You'll help others create research activities in larger teams and on more complex projects, research that will help to inform proposition, service, content, and interaction design so that our products and services meet the needs of our users and are truly customer centric. How you'll help us make health happen
- Working alongside a multidisciplinary team of researchers, UX designers, visual designers and content designers, you'll help design experiences for all areas of the business.
- You'll be responsible for planning and carrying out user research activities for and with the rest of the team - owning the process end to end and empowering colleagues to get involved.
- You'll be working as an embedded researcher across two squads.
- Spotting opportunities for research to support in the design process, educating colleagues and stakeholders about what we do and how we can support.
- You'll be contributing to the growth of a team that's establishing itself and growing in maturity - helping to improve and set up processes and ways of working.
- You'll be deepening our knowledge of our customers and helping to champion their needs so we can serve them better., This role is flexible in terms of where you're based - our team is based all over the UK! We just ask that you can make it into our Salford (just outside of Manchester) office once a quarter for dedicated team time, and as and when for key meetings/activities. However, you're free to come in to the office as often as you'd like - whatever works for you.
Impressive Research experience - most likely as a User / UX researcher but we're open to candidates from Market / Social research backgrounds who can demonstrate a good level of knowledge and transferable skills. - Experience across generative and evaluative research methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead research projects from start to finish
- Experience of undertaking research with sensitive audiences/around sensitive topics
- Background in working on projects related to accessibility.
- Confident working with analytics data - we use Adobe Analytics and FullStory
- Proven track record of advocating for user research in the design process and making the business case for thorough and impactful research.
- Experience working as part of Agile teams.
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. - 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Various other benefits and online discounts
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. You'll receive the following benefits and more: