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Position Summary
As a Lead Quantitative UX Researcher, you’ll make behavioral data a core part of how we understand users, using Amplitude and behavioral analytics to uncover meaningful insights into the diverse client and customer populations we serve as a healthcare company. Embedded in specific product areas and partnering closely with our Behavioral Data & Product (BDP) team, you’ll drive how behavioral data shapes everyday product decisions alongside product, design, and engineering partners. This isn’t a lone-researcher role delivering findings from the sidelines: you’ll stay with the team to understand why users behave the way they do and help decide what we build in response. You’ll also be the team’s resident expert on behavioral data, helping teammates see what’s possible with it and get invested in using it well. This is a hybrid role based in Boston and reports to the Principal Design Researcher, Senior Manager.
About the Team
The Data and Ecosystem Platform subdivision focuses on data access, integration, and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem. As part of the broader User Experience team, you will support specific product areas while shifting focus as organizational priorities evolve. The role will primarily focus on hands-on research and exploration, with additional responsibility for turning effective methods, cohort definitions, dashboards, study designs, and tracking standards into repeatable resources for other teams that raise the bar for how teams across the organization use behavioral data.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Plan research with Product, Design, Engineering, and Research partners by defining research questions, hypotheses, study designs, and success measures.
- Analyze user and customer behavior through funnel and drop-off analysis, retention and cohort comparisons, journey and path analysis, behavioral segmentation, controlled experiments, surveys, and statistical modeling.
- Use Amplitude, SQL, and R or Python to combine data sources, conduct significance testing and modeling, and analyze behavioral, survey, and mixed-method data.
- Identify segment- and specialty-specific patterns that improve the organization’s understanding of its diverse users and customers.
- Combine quantitative findings with qualitative and survey research to develop a more complete understanding of user behavior and the factors influencing it.
- Conduct qualitative research, including user interviews, usability testing, concept testing, diary studies, and contextual inquiry.
- Define meaningful cohorts and segments and translate them into participant lists, screeners, and outreach criteria.
- Partner with the Behavioral Data & Product and Engineering teams on cross-product analyses, event taxonomies, tracking plans, data quality, and centralized user profile use cases.
- Develop clear dashboards, reports, readouts, and recommendations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders make product and design decisions.
- Apply AI tools responsibly to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis while developing transparent, repeatable AI-assisted research workflows.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Identify behavioral research opportunities and carry them from initial questions through analysis, recommendations, and product decisions.
- Integrate behavioral insights into product planning, design critiques, experimentation, and post-launch reviews.
- Partner with designers to translate findings into design recommendations and evaluate whether experience changes achieve the intended results.
- Convert effective research methods, templates, dashboards, and study designs into repeatable tools and processes in partnership with the Behavioral Data & Product team.
- Create case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how behavioral data and Amplitude can support product decisions.
- Share knowledge about behavioral analytics methods and contribute to research standards and practices across the organization.
Expected Education & Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in quantitative UX research or behavioral data science, with demonstrated depth in behavioral data and hands-on experience in experimentation.
- Proficiency in SQL and R or Python, and in statistical methods such as significance testing and modeling.
- Experience with product analytics platforms, specifically Amplitude.
- Experience using AI tools in everyday research practice to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis and develop responsible, repeatable AI-assisted workflows.
- Working competence in qualitative methods, including user interviewing, usability testing, and concept testing.
- Working understanding of usability heuristics and core design principles, including information hierarchy, chart selection, and progressive disclosure, applied to dashboards, reports, and self-service tools.
- Demonstrated ability to move between technical rigor and clear stakeholder communication.
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating problem framing, study design, analysis, and how findings shaped product decisions.
- Academic or professional background in behavioral science, behavioral economics, the social sciences, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, enterprise software, or other complex operational domains preferred.
Expected Compensation
$153,000 - $259,000* The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary
As a Lead Quantitative UX Researcher, you’ll make behavioral data a core part of how we understand users, using Amplitude and behavioral analytics to uncover meaningful insights into the diverse client and customer populations we serve as a healthcare company. Embedded in specific product areas and partnering closely with our Behavioral Data & Product (BDP) team, you’ll drive how behavioral data shapes everyday product decisions alongside product, design, and engineering partners. This isn’t a lone-researcher role delivering findings from the sidelines: you’ll stay with the team to understand why users behave the way they do and help decide what we build in response. You’ll also be the team’s resident expert on behavioral data, helping teammates see what’s possible with it and get invested in using it well. This is a hybrid role based in Boston and reports to the Principal Design Researcher, Senior Manager.
About the Team
The Data and Ecosystem Platform subdivision focuses on data access, integration, and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem. As part of the broader User Experience team, you will support specific product areas while shifting focus as organizational priorities evolve. The role will primarily focus on hands-on research and exploration, with additional responsibility for turning effective methods, cohort definitions, dashboards, study designs, and tracking standards into repeatable resources for other teams that raise the bar for how teams across the organization use behavioral data.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Plan research with Product, Design, Engineering, and Research partners by defining research questions, hypotheses, study designs, and success measures.
- Analyze user and customer behavior through funnel and drop-off analysis, retention and cohort comparisons, journey and path analysis, behavioral segmentation, controlled experiments, surveys, and statistical modeling.
- Use Amplitude, SQL, and R or Python to combine data sources, conduct significance testing and modeling, and analyze behavioral, survey, and mixed-method data.
- Identify segment- and specialty-specific patterns that improve the organization’s understanding of its diverse users and customers.
- Combine quantitative findings with qualitative and survey research to develop a more complete understanding of user behavior and the factors influencing it.
- Conduct qualitative research, including user interviews, usability testing, concept testing, diary studies, and contextual inquiry.
- Define meaningful cohorts and segments and translate them into participant lists, screeners, and outreach criteria.
- Partner with the Behavioral Data & Product and Engineering teams on cross-product analyses, event taxonomies, tracking plans, data quality, and centralized user profile use cases.
- Develop clear dashboards, reports, readouts, and recommendations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders make product and design decisions.
- Apply AI tools responsibly to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis while developing transparent, repeatable AI-assisted research workflows.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Identify behavioral research opportunities and carry them from initial questions through analysis, recommendations, and product decisions.
- Integrate behavioral insights into product planning, design critiques, experimentation, and post-launch reviews.
- Partner with designers to translate findings into design recommendations and evaluate whether experience changes achieve the intended results.
- Convert effective research methods, templates, dashboards, and study designs into repeatable tools and processes in partnership with the Behavioral Data & Product team.
- Create case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how behavioral data and Amplitude can support product decisions.
- Share knowledge about behavioral analytics methods and contribute to research standards and practices across the organization.
Expected Education & Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in quantitative UX research or behavioral data science, with demonstrated depth in behavioral data and hands-on experience in experimentation.
- Proficiency in SQL and R or Python, and in statistical methods such as significance testing and modeling.
- Experience with product analytics platforms, specifically Amplitude.
- Experience using AI tools in everyday research practice to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis and develop responsible, repeatable AI-assisted workflows.
- Working competence in qualitative methods, including user interviewing, usability testing, and concept testing.
- Working understanding of usability heuristics and core design principles, including information hierarchy, chart selection, and progressive disclosure, applied to dashboards, reports, and self-service tools.
- Demonstrated ability to move between technical rigor and clear stakeholder communication.
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating problem framing, study design, analysis, and how findings shaped product decisions.
- Academic or professional background in behavioral science, behavioral economics, the social sciences, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, enterprise software, or other complex operational domains preferred.
Expected Compensation
$153,000 - $259,000* The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Research And Development Engineer
Document your technical credentials before applying
Gather your transcripts, degree equivalency evaluations, and published research or patents now. PERM audits frequently target R&D roles, and USCIS scrutinizes whether your foreign engineering degree maps directly to the position's stated requirements.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search the DOL OFLC disclosure data for employers who have filed PERM applications for R&D Engineer titles. Companies running long product development cycles, especially in semiconductors, biotech, and aerospace, file PERM more consistently than project-based contractors.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility with your offer letter
If the job description requires only a bachelor's degree, most employers file under EB-3. If your role requires an advanced degree or you hold one and the position demands it, push for EB-2 classification, which can accelerate priority date movement for many nationalities.
Use Migrate Mate to filter R&D roles by sponsorship history
Search Research and Development Engineer positions on Migrate Mate to surface employers with documented green card filing activity. Filtering by sponsorship history removes guesswork and focuses your outreach on companies already familiar with the PERM process.
Prepare for the PERM prevailing wage determination early
Your employer must obtain a prevailing wage determination from OFLC before filing PERM. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up Level II or Level III wages for your SOC code and metro area so you can evaluate whether an offer meets DOL requirements before accepting.
Negotiate the I-140 filing timeline into your offer
PERM certification alone does not lock in your priority date for green card preference purposes. Ask your employer to commit in writing to filing the I-140 petition promptly after PERM approval, since delays between the two steps can cost you months in the backlog queue.
Green Card Research And Development Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Research and Development Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
R&D Engineer positions can qualify under either category. EB-3 applies when the role requires a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. EB-2 applies when the position genuinely requires an advanced degree or you hold one and your employer can demonstrate the role demands that level. Your employer's attorney makes the classification call during PERM preparation, so the job description wording matters significantly.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for R&D Engineers?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status capped at 85,000 new slots annually, requiring a lottery for most applicants. EB-3 green card sponsorship has no annual lottery and leads to permanent residency, but the PERM process adds 12 to 24 months before the I-140 stage. For nationals of countries without significant visa backlogs, the total EB-3 timeline to a green card can be shorter than waiting through multiple H-1B lottery rounds.
Where can I find Research and Development Engineer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search R&D Engineer roles specifically filtered by employers with green card and PERM filing history, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never sponsored a permanent resident. Most general job boards don't surface sponsorship intent at all, making targeted searches on Migrate Mate significantly more efficient for this pathway.
What does the PERM labor certification process look like for an R&D Engineer position?
Your employer files an Application for Permanent Employment Certification with DOL after conducting a supervised recruitment process to show no qualified U.S. workers were available. DOL then issues a PERM certification, which your employer uses to file an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. R&D roles are frequently selected for PERM audit because of their technical specificity, so thorough documentation of your credentials and the job requirements is critical.
Can I switch employers after my I-140 is approved without losing my place in the green card queue?
Yes, under AC21 portability rules, you can change employers and keep your original priority date if your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days and the new role is in the same or similar occupational classification. For R&D Engineers, moving between companies in related technical disciplines generally satisfies the same-or-similar standard, but your new employer must be willing to continue the sponsorship.