Staff Design Researcher/UX Researcher
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 71 - 81
Posted on:
12-09-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
FocusKPI is looking for aStaff Design Researcher/UX researcherto join one of our clients a high-tech SaaS company.
As a Staff Researcher for the Dash tool you will be instrumental in shaping the product and organizational strategy for one of the clients most ambitious bets. Youll lead strategic research initiatives and programs that illuminate new problem spaces define long-term vision and inspire product innovation across multiple teams.
This role focuses on identifying opportunities to expand the value adoption and scalability of Dash in a rapidly evolving landscape. Your work will extend beyond informing individual product decisions and will guide how Dash evolves scales and delivers AI-powered experiences that redefine how knowledge workers discover connect and act on content.
In this dynamic and fast-paced environment youll operate as both a craft leader and strategic thought partner deeply embedded with cross-functional stakeholders across research design product engineering sales and marketing. Youll be expected to influence team-level execution and executive decision-making alike ensuring Dash builds experiences that are deeply useful magical and grounded in human needs. Your work will influence Dashs offerings and help create magical reliable and delightful experiences that redefine knowledge work.
Work Location:Remote - anywhere in the US;Client location: San Francisco CA
Duration:3-monthcontract with possibility of extension or conversion depending on your performance and the budget approval
Pay Range:Zone1:$100/hr to $110/hr;Zone2:$85 to 95/hr;Zone3:$71 to 81/hr
**No C2C resumes are considered**
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex multi-quarter research initiatives and programs that influence product and business strategy across Dash and adjacent areas.
- Drive strategic thinking across product design and leadership teams using research to shape vision goals and product architecture.
- Identify foundational and emergent research opportunities that align with company priorities and fuel long-term innovation.
- Own and evolve research practices mentoring other researchers championing methodological excellence and elevating research quality across the organization.
- Deliver high-signal insights through rigorous triangulation across qualitative quantitative and behavioral data.
- Proactively influence decision-making at the executive and cross-functional leadership levels through compelling synthesis and narrative craft.
- Build enduring partnerships across product design engineering sales and marketing fostering alignment and shared understanding.
- Represent Dash Research externally contributing to thought leadership and helping the clientattract and retain top research talent.
- 10 years of experience in UX Research with a proven track record of driving product and strategic decisions at scale.
- Deep fluency in a broad range of research qualitative and quantitative methodologies across the product lifecycle from early generative to evaluative and longitudinal.
- Demonstrated experience in shaping product vision working across complex product ecosystems or B2B/enterprise environments.
- Experience withB2B or enterprise SaaS products
- Skilled at operating in 0->1 contexts rapidly synthesizing ambiguity into clarity and direction.
- Strong executive presence and storytelling ability and able to influence through insight and empathy across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Actively mentor peers contribute to team rituals hiring and foster a collaborative research culture
- Background insurvey design and tooling(e.g. Qualtrics SurveyMonkey Sprig)
- Strategic Research Leadership: Proven ability to drive company-level recommendations using a variety of methods
- Stakeholder Management: Strong communication influence and ability to navigate differing opinions
- Methodological Flexibility: Comfortable working in a fast-paced zero-to-one environment with scrappy timelines (e.g. condensing 6-month studies into 2-week sprints)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in Human-Computer Interaction Cognitive Science Psychology or a related field.
- Familiarity with emerging research practices (e.g. AI-integrated research simulation testing metrics-driven validation).
- Experience building research functions or leading strategy in fast-scaling orgs or innovation labs.
- Background in complex industries such as AI knowledge management SaaS platforms or data systems.
Thank you!
FocusKPI Hiring Team
Founded in 2010 FocusKPI Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley California with an East Coast office in Boston Massachusetts.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Intelligence Community Experience
- Python
- Spss
- Microsoft Word
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Windows
- Stata
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Data Modeling
- Writing Skills
About Company
FocusKPI offers custom marketing analytics solutions and specialized data science support to fit your timeline and budget. Among our areas of expertise are: personalization solutions, measurement (MMM & MTA), and customer sentiment analysis.
