Director, Head of User Research, Partnership
Director, Head of User Research, Partnership
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Job Description
At FNBO our employees are the heart of our storyand were committed to their success! Please see below the details of this career opportunity and how it fits into our organizations success.
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Summary of the Job:
This role is critical for driving the right inputs into Product Owners and the new product testing process. You will select deploy and manage the tools for identifying trends in consumer preferences and market changes to ensure Product Owners have the insights they need and that new products will be valued by customers.
You will work with Product Owners and Customer Insights Analysts to pair qualitative and quantitative insights. Working with key stakeholders the information gathered will create new consumer lending insights to be used in rapid cycle testing and informing product roadmaps. You will help review feedback from testing.
This role will be part of the team responsible for new products development and will also support the bank for its user research needs. To succeed you will need to develop great relationships and understand the overall product portfolio. You will manage the process for and participate in the gathering of data for daily operations as well as new products.
About This Role:
Key Responsibilities
Feedback Collection System Management
- Select implement and manage consumer research tools and platforms
- Deploy consumer insights platforms to scale the UX foundational and behavioral research collection.
- Evangelize the support of user research within Product Owners new product development and business development
- Help drive the capture of the right data sources to enable feedback with key stakeholders
- Develop research methodologies to gather actionable insights for product development
- Create and maintain a systematic approach to data collection trend identification and analysis
- Partner with Customer Insights Analysts and Product Owner leadership to integrate qualitative and quantitative research
- Design systematic data collection protocols.
- Integrate quant qual methodologies to pair scale with depth in every project
Product Development Support
- Provide critical consumer insights to Product Owners during ideation and development phases
- Collaborate with Product Owners to translate research findings into product requirements
- Support rapid cycle testing by designing appropriate research methods and analyzing results
- Contribute to product roadmap development through data-driven recommendations
- Leverage mixed methodologies based on the business objectives to optimize the UX process and needs of the product teams.
- Use real-time audience feedback to rapidly refine feature sets and reduce time-to-market
- Translate rich quantitative or qualitative learnings into clear data-backed requirements for the bank
Organizational Support
- Serve as the subject matter expert for user research and validation across the bank driving usage in the design of products and experiences
- Enable cross-functional teams to launch iterative studies on demand
- Maintain comprehensive knowledge of the banks product portfolio
- Identify opportunities for cross-product synergies based on consumer needs
- Evaluate how effectively the team utilizes available resources including tools budget and personnel.
Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with emerging data collection & research methodologies and tools to continuously evolve the team and feedback collection system
- Recommend improvements to the insights gathering process
- Develop team capabilities in consumer research techniques
- Create knowledge management systems to leverage insights across projects
Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with Product Owner leadership new products team and other key stakeholders.
- Partner with internal stakeholders on the Consumer Testing Program
- Assess the level of collaboration between the user research team and other departments such as product management marketing and IT
The Ideal Candidate for This Role:
Required:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience
- 7 years experience in user/consumer research market insights or related field
- 3 years managing research tools and platforms
- Experience partnering with product teams to influence roadmaps
- Experience in a matrix environment with diverse activities tight timelines and varied special projects.
Desired:
- 5 years consumer lending industry experience.
Compensation:
Compensation range (base pay): $95857.00-$162957.00
This role may have a specific starting pay within this range.
Final compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon work experience education and/or skill level.
Benefits Overview:
We offer a variety of benefits designed to keep you and your family physically and financially healthy. Not only do we offer a competitive salary and work-life balance we offer benefits to match your needs:
Medical Dental Vision Insurance
401k With Matching Contributions
Time Off Programs
Health Savings Account (HSA)/Dependent Care
Employee Banking
Growth Opportunities
Tuition Assistance
Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
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Application Deadline:
All our jobs will be posted for a minimum of 5 calendar days. Job postings may come down prior to 5 calendar days based on volume of applicants.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
