.Love solving sticky problems? Excited about crafting innovative solutions for global software? Interested in working on products that touch everyone's lives? We're a close-knit and multidisciplinary UX team working to make cloud software that is at the forefront of the insurance industry. We are committed to inclusion and diversity in skills and talent, as diverse as the global clients we serve. Our success is dependent on building teams that include people from divergent backgrounds and experiences who will support and challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. Our team tackles a variety of domains within Property and Casualty insurance; as a design (UX) researcher you would be in charge of guiding, organizing, and executing research. Working with support from our Lead Design Researcher, you will help our UX designers and product managers in Dublin and Poland to determine when and how the research will help them make better business and design decisions. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated, self-directing, and interested in growing as a strategic problem-solver on our friendly, global, customer-centric UX team. Your day-to-day: Help user experience teams and the business solidify research objectives and identify problems to be explored. Then, translate these objectives into key research questions for study and/or exploration. Work across teams to plan and conduct an array of practical and impactful design research to uncover user attitudes, behaviors, needs, and motivations. Understand when and which quantitative and qualitative research methods to use and their pros and cons. Guide teams on which research tradeoffs are acceptable given research questions, business goals, timeline, and resources. Design and execute end-to-end custom, primary research. This includes but is not limited to building study plans, participant screeners, and discussion guides as well as recruiting study participants, moderation research sessions, and generating reports. Uncover useful findings and actionable insights that drive tactical and strategic product decisions. Use third-party, market research, analytics, and user research to generate solid insights to foster solutions that consider a holistic view of people, technology, and business. Cultivate user empathy by translating research into compelling stories of how users of our solutions think, feel, and behave. Build artifacts such as personas, journey maps, presentations, reports, etc. to communicate the needs of users and customers to key stakeholders in clear and memorable ways. Assist with coaching and training developers, designers, product managers, and others on basic research best practices, enabling them to quickly turn-around meaningful, useful insights. Help to build and maintain an archive of research activities, results, and insights that can easily be shared with product shareholders and the user experience team