.Senior UX ResearcherUser ResearchBarcelona or Helsinki Metropolitan AreaPermanentAt Rovio, you will get to work with multiple groundbreaking IPs including one of the most famous game IPs in the world: Angry Birds! We craft joy with player-focused gaming experiences that last for decades.In order to do that, we know that people need to bring their own joy to what we do. That's why we value work-life balance, say no to crunch culture, and welcome people from all walks of life to join the flock.Today, we are a proud team of 500+ caring and talented professionals representing over 50 different nations. We trust our teams to work autonomously by providing them the right tools and level of responsibility.We believe in our teams to remain creative and to keep learning as well as ensuring everyone has opportunities for personal growth.We're looking for a Senior UX Researcher to join our research team to support our games in the Puzzle studio. As a Senior UX Researcher at Rovio, you will leverage your passion for mobile puzzle games and user research skills to help game teams understand their audience and enable them to create the most intuitive, accessible, user-friendly, and engaging games in the mobile gaming industry.In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on both our live games as well as new games. You will focus on helping product teams answer the most challenging questions they face around design and target audience.Through player insight, you will influence and inspire positive change at all stages of game development from concept into live-ops by conducting qualitative and quantitative research and delivering findings to stakeholders through workshops, collaboration, presentations, and documentation.The players' experience comes first at Rovio, so in this critical role your job as a Senior UX Researcher is to drive a players-first mindset by championing the user and being the voice of the player.Ultimately your role will enable game teams to acknowledge both business and player needs and define their target audience through understanding player experience, expectations, and motivations.You will have impact and fun at work by doing:- Hands-on Mixed-method Research: Plan, coordinate, manage and carry out studies using various research methodologies, including qualitative, quantitative or any mixed approach that you consider the best fit for the current need.- Full Lifecycle Support: Work closely with the development and marketing teams throughout the life cycle of games, from concept and prototype to post-launch and live-ops.Understand their design intentions, define the research goals and carry out research projects on a continuous, iterative basis.- User-centric Mindset in Games: Be a strong voice advocating for the players and drive player-focused decisions throughout game development and marketing with actionable insights in player experience, needs and motivations, usability, competitor benchmarking, game economy, etc