Job Description
Overview:
We are seeking a UX Researcher with a strong retail background to help shape and validate both digital and physical customer experiences. This role will focus on understanding real-world shopping behaviors, translating insights into actionable design direction, and rapidly testing solutions to ensure they truly work for customers.
You’ll partner closely with designers, product, and business stakeholders to document use cases, uncover pain points, and help guide experience improvements through research-driven insights.
Responsibilities:
- Document user use cases from a customer experience and UX perspective
- Create and map customer journeys across digital and physical touchpoints
- Conduct UX research to understand customer needs, behaviors, and pain points
- Observe in-store and shopping behaviors; analyze and document findings
- Identify edge cases, friction points, and complex problem areas within the experience
- Partner with design to create mockups and rapid prototypes
- Test proposed solutions with users to validate effectiveness and usability
- Synthesize research insights into clear, actionable recommendations
- Support iterative testing to answer the key question: Does this solution actually work for the user?
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Required Skills & Experience
- 2–3+ years of professional experience in UX Research
- Strong background in retail environments (in-store, omnichannel, or ecommerce)
- Experience researching and designing both digital and physical experiences
- Ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ideas
- Hands-on experience with design and prototyping tools such as: Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD
- Strong qualitative research skills, including observation, usability testing, and behavioral analysis
- Ability to clearly document findings and communicate insights to cross-functional teams
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience working in fast-paced or large-scale retail organizations
- Familiarity with usability testing in live or semi-live retail environments
- Ability to balance research rigor with speed and practicality
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.