UX Researcher (Part-time) Retail Media (mfd)

MediaMarktSaturn Technology is looking for an enthusiastic and skilled UX Researcher to join our permanent team in this role you will focus on our growing Retail Media ecosystem helping shape advertising brand partnership and sponsored experience touchpoints across our digital platforms (web app and specialized internal/partner tools).

You will partner closely with cross-functional product squadsincluding Product Managers Product Designers Engineers Data/AI specialists and Commercial/Ad-Tech stakeholdersto uncover actionable user and business insights that drive product discovery and validation.

What You Will Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Drive UXR in Retail Media: Lead qualitative and quantitative UX research initiatives focused on retail media touchpoints (e.g. sponsored product placements brand display advertising self-serve advertiser portals reporting dashboards and audience targeting workflows).
• Enable & Coach Designers: Empower product designers across the department to conduct their own evaluative and tactical research projects (e.g. usability testing concept testing) by offering methodological coaching test plan reviews best practices and practical feedback.
• End-to-End Research: Plan execute and analyze research activities across the product lifecyclefrom early exploratory/discovery research to iterative concept and usability testing.
• Lean & Agile Collaboration: Embed within agile product squads to support sprint cycles framing hypotheses defining research goals and providing rapid feedback to inform ongoing design and product decisions.
• Mixed-Methods Execution: Conduct user interviews contextual inquiries usability benchmarks tree testing surveys and unmoderated studies with both external users (shoppers advertisers brand partners) and internal teams (ad operations category managers).
• Data & Insight Synthesis: Triangulate qualitative insights with behavioral and business data (e.g. ad engagement click-through rates conversion funnel analytics) to present compelling evidence-based recommendations.
• Knowledge Sharing & Toolkit: Maintain and contribute to our centralized research repository sharing frameworks self-serve templates and guidelines across teams to build an organizational culture of continuous learning and user-centered design.

• Experience: Professional experience (approx. 35 years) in UX Research or Mixed-Methods Research within digital product teams.
• Domain Knowledge: Demonstrable experience or strong familiarity with Retail Media AdTech E-commerce platforms.
• Research Enablement & Mentorship: Passion and capability for coaching supporting and upskilling product designers in conducting their own research acting as a supportive advisor and research advocate.
• Methodological Toolkit: Solid grounding in both generative (discovery) and evaluative (usability concept validation) research methods with the ability to choose the right approach based on project constraints.
• Lean UX Mindset: Familiarity with hypothesis-driven product discovery and working iteratively in cross-functional agile teams.
• Tooling Proficiency: Experience with modern research testing and collaboration tools (e.g. UserTesting Condens Figma) and analytics platforms.
• AI Literacy: Practical interest or experience leveraging AI tools for research workflows (e.g. synthesis assistance transcript clustering desk research) while exercising critical judgment over outputs.
• Communication & Stakeholder Skills: Ability to translate complex findings into structured visually engaging and actionable takeaways for product design and business partners.
• Languages: Fluent English (working language of MediaMarktSaturn Technology). Spanish is highly beneficial for local collaboration and conducting native-language user sessions.

MediaMarktSaturn Technology is working to make Europes number-one consumer electronics retailer the technology leader in its industry. To this end several hundred developers UX designers and system architects using state-of-the-art technology work hand in hand with business owners in agile teams to develop customer-focused technology solutions for more than 6 million customers every day in 13 countries.

(*) Diversity and equal opportunities are important to us. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply if they dont meet all the criteria. If you are interested in this position but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every requirement we still encourage you to apply.

• Young environment where not everything is written in stone and where you are expected to contribute and co-create the culture of the Tech Hub and international collaboration model.
• Youll have a 10% discount on the entire MediaMarkt website so you can treat yourself at a lower price whenever you want!
• On top of your compensation package you can request Flexible Pay MediaFlex program (a.e. Ticket Restaurant Private Health Insurance with Adeslas)
• Flexible working time and possibility to combine home office / presential working. Intensive workday every Friday and during summer.
• The possibility to choose between 2 offices: The first one is the MediaMarkt Iberia HQ with a very attractive menu at a price. Youll eat for less than 4! And the second office is located at Pier01 in Barceloneta right in the center of Barcelona. Free coffee and free fruit once a week.
• There is a training budgetso you can continue developing the skills you need most to keep growing professionally and personally!
• We offer language classes: English Spanish and German.
• On your birthday you wont work! Its a day for you to enjoy without thinking about work.
• Youll be working with the most cutting-edge technological stack of the moment.

Location:Barcelona El Prat De Llobregat

Media Markt Saturn Th Services Barcelona

Department:HQ - IT

Entrylevel:Professional Level

Type of Employement:Part Time

Working Hours:30

Persona:Job Requisition Tech Employee

Recruiter:Antonio López

Recruiter:Antonio Lopez Mendez