Senior Staff UX Design Researcher
Livonia, MI - USA
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
The Sr Staff UX Design Researcher is responsible for the discovery execution analysis and synthesis of user research as an active member of a team that bridges the gap between Design and Technology for STS Hosting. This role centralizes data and analytics needs for internal services and health builds scalable standard visualizations and provides researchbacked insights that enable datadriven decision making that is customer focused.You will establish and champion standards policies and best practices for product and UX research ensuring teams can deliver customer experiences aligned with technology visions and operational goals. Working across STS and with Customer Delivery and Hosting shops you will codify best practices drive consistency in customer experience and support documentation and training around UX/CX practices.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead endtoend user research (discovery planning execution analysis synthesis and communication) for internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Translate research findings into actionable insights frameworks and recommendations that inform product service and technology decisions.
- Provide accurate researchbacked information to enable datadriven decisions on prioritization and resource effectiveness without owning costs directly.
- Partner with Customer Delivery to translate VOC (Voice of Customer) and UX findings into process improvements training updates and experience enhancements across Hosting shops.
- Centralize data and analytics needs related to internal services operational health product/service performance and UX research.
- Ensure data quality consistency and traceability for research and analytics used in decisionmaking.
- Develop support and evolve standards policies and best practices for product and UX research across STS and related teams.
- Coach and enable teams on how to apply UX research and CX standards in projects including methods tools and measurement approaches.
- Collaborate across STS to identify opportunities for customer experience consistency and codify best practices across shops.
- Enable internal teams to deliver a customer experience aligned with technology visions platform standards and operational objectives.
- Facilitate small research and experimentation cycles that combine UX and lean best practices to reduce risk and accelerate learning.
- Create maintain and manage documentation repositories for internal processes research artifacts and CX/UX standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 8 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 10 years of professional experience
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in UX Design.
- Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience
Eligibility Requirement:
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with visual collaboration tools (eg. Miro)
- Extensive experience in UX research or design research roles including endtoend ownership of complex research initiatives (discovery through delivery).
- Proven ability to work at a staff/principal level influencing crossfunctional teams and leadership through evidencebased recommendations.
- Experience working in technologydriven product or platform environments ideally with internal tools services or operational systems.
- Deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods such as interviews contextual inquiry ethnography surveys usability testing A/B testing and log/behavioral analysis.
- Strong skills in data analysis and visualization including the ability to centralize and synthesize data from multiple sources and present insights in clear scalable dashboards or reports.
- Demonstrated ability to translate VOC and UX research into process training and product improvements that measurably impact customer experience.
- Experience defining and operationalizing UX research standards policies and best practices across multiple teams or organizations.
- Demonstrated success in coaching mentoring or enabling teams to adopt UX/CX practices and apply research methods independently.
- Experience with process documentation and knowledge management including organizing and maintaining shared repositories of research and CX artifacts.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to clearly convey complex research findings to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Strong collaboration skills with a track record of working effectively across design engineering product operations and customerfacing teams.
- Ability to influence without direct authority guiding prioritization and strategy through evidence and customer insight rather than direct cost ownership.
Additional Information:
The base pay range for this position is $131000.00 - 174000.00 USD annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience education and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the posting is expected to close on May 11th 2026.
GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and along with programs like HealthAhead your physical emotional financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program which provides 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability insurance life insurance and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e. is a Sponsor). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsors welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
Additional Information
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Required Experience:
Staff IC