Experience Research Vice President

Join us to pioneer user experience insights shaping products that resonate with customers and end users. Foster a culture of continuous learning as you mentor and coach junior researchers and designers and bring your thought leadership and expertise to the team.

As an Experience Research Vice President in Consumer and community banking you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience across our products and services. Leveraging your deep expertise in research methods and user experience design develop and execute research strategies to uncover valuable insights into the wants needs and abilities of our customers and end users. Your work will provide the foundation used to inform effective product and service designs across the firm. Apply your advanced knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methods to critically analyze the effectiveness of our existing and future designs as you collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams.

Job responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end mixed-methods research across multiple workstreams from scoping and prioritizing the right questions through participant sampling and recruitment study design and materials fielding and facilitation analysis and synthesis and delivering actionable recommendations.
• Plan and conduct research in-person and/or virtually with distributed team members across India the Philippines and Tempe AZ.
• Conduct research using methods such as field studies/ethnography interviews diary studies participatory workshops surveys and usability testing to understand behaviors motivations and friction in workflows.
• Document and map experiences to identify opportunities to improve workflows.
• Analyze and synthesize findings identify patterns/trends and deliver clear actionable recommendations for UX and product decisions.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify and prioritize research opportunities in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment connecting research to business goals and downstream implications.
• Communicate insights and recommendations to diverse audiences tailoring storytelling and artifacts to drive alignment and decisions with Design/Product/Engineering and senior stakeholders.
• Help evolve a scalable research practice: contribute to methodologies frameworks templates and ways of working that enable research efficiency and consistency.
• Enable designers and partners to conduct high-quality research by advising on plans and best practices (no people management).

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• 5 years of experience (or equivalent expertise) in generative and evaluative UX research with strong mixed-methods capability.
• Proven ability to design and execute research using advanced qualitative and quantitative techniques (e.g. interviews ethnography/field work survey design usability testing analysis).
• Strong capability to incorporate complex technical and business requirements into research plans and translate insights into decision-ready guidance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to deliver clear recommendations and influence direction through research storytelling.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced collaborative environments with changing priorities; strong critical thinking and problem solving.
• Experience working effectively in regulated/complex environments with sensitivity to privacy risk and compliance considerations in research.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience in financial services compliance or other highly regulated domains
• Experience working in an Operations or Customer Service environment
• Familiarity with tools such as Maze Dovetail Optimal Workshop LucidAdobe Premiere Pro and Handbrake
• Experience facilitating workshops and producing journey/service maps and executive ready deliverables
• Experience working in abstract or specialized environments with unique processes and workflows requiring the ability to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar business practices
• Experience working with enterprise software applications that require scaling to multiple persona groups