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Austin, TX
Requisition ID 2026-121445
Category UX/Digital
Position type Regular
Pay range USD $105,600.00 - $234,600.00 / Year
Application deadline 2026-05-04
Your opportunity
At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.
We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).
Schwab Advisor Services is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and adaptable Senior User Experience Researcher who is passionate about understanding user needs and pain points. In this role, you will help shape the future of our industry-leading enterprise platform that supports independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) in scaling efficiently, competing confidently, and responding to increasingly complex client needs. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary UX and Product teams to scale our research practice, uncover insights about our users, and ensure that their motivations, needs, and behaviors drive product design decisions.
Responsibilities
- Help teams identify opportunities, define research priorities and goals, and select the appropriate research methodologies.
- Lead targeted and end-to-end research efforts in support of discovery, evaluation, and optimization efforts.
- Translate research findings into clear and compelling narratives and actionable insights to create alignment and guide product strategies.
- Empower cross-functional teams to conduct high-quality, independent research.
- Develop and scale research with best practices, frameworks, and methodological toolkits to enable organizational adoption.
- Streamline recruitment, develop participant panels, and oversee participant governance.
- Maintain strategic partnerships with Digital Adoption, Marketing, and Support teams and align user data into cohesive customer journeys.
- Pilot AI-enabled solutions to streamline operational tasks and scale analysis.
- Elevate research quality—define best practices, ensure methodological rigor, and support others in developing UX Research knowledge and skills.
- Support multiple product teams simultaneously, manage shifting priorities with autonomy and initiative.
- Collaborate with Product and UX leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure generative and evaluative research is embedded throughout the product design process.
- Share research findings and insights to help drive decision-making, recognizing that great products are achieved iteratively, within scope and budget, emphasizing progress over perfection.
- Raise potential roadblocks to leadership and collaborate to remove blockers or find alternate paths forward.
- Maintain the high standards set by the group, including channel standards, content standards and the Schwab Advisor Services design system.
Why your work matters:
- You will support an engaged set of users who rely on our products to manage their businesses and their clients’ financial lives.
- By understanding user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with Schwab.
- You will learn how to balance functionality against complexity on a highly visible platform which serves millions of advisors and retail customers.
- You will work with an engaged product design team that fosters a learning environment.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in UX, CX, or Service Design Research
- A strong command of mixed methods across the full product design lifecycle.
- Experience in enterprise or large-scale, B2B environments
- Experience supporting both long-term strategy development and detailed design execution.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, able to turn complex findings into clear, persuasive narratives for diverse audiences.
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence design, product, and technology partners.
- Strong self-management skills, comfortable with working directly with our partners.
- Proven track record of navigating complex situations and projects successfully.
Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic.
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
Eligible Schwabbies receive
Medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) and employee stock purchase plans
Tuition reimbursement to keep developing your career
Paid parental leave and adoption/family building benefits
Sabbatical leave available after five years of employment
LOCATION
Austin, TX
Requisition ID 2026-121445
Category UX/Digital
Position type Regular
Pay range USD $105,600.00 - $234,600.00 / Year
Application deadline 2026-05-04
Your opportunity
At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.
We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).
Schwab Advisor Services is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and adaptable Senior User Experience Researcher who is passionate about understanding user needs and pain points. In this role, you will help shape the future of our industry-leading enterprise platform that supports independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) in scaling efficiently, competing confidently, and responding to increasingly complex client needs. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary UX and Product teams to scale our research practice, uncover insights about our users, and ensure that their motivations, needs, and behaviors drive product design decisions.
Responsibilities
- Help teams identify opportunities, define research priorities and goals, and select the appropriate research methodologies.
- Lead targeted and end-to-end research efforts in support of discovery, evaluation, and optimization efforts.
- Translate research findings into clear and compelling narratives and actionable insights to create alignment and guide product strategies.
- Empower cross-functional teams to conduct high-quality, independent research.
- Develop and scale research with best practices, frameworks, and methodological toolkits to enable organizational adoption.
- Streamline recruitment, develop participant panels, and oversee participant governance.
- Maintain strategic partnerships with Digital Adoption, Marketing, and Support teams and align user data into cohesive customer journeys.
- Pilot AI-enabled solutions to streamline operational tasks and scale analysis.
- Elevate research quality—define best practices, ensure methodological rigor, and support others in developing UX Research knowledge and skills.
- Support multiple product teams simultaneously, manage shifting priorities with autonomy and initiative.
- Collaborate with Product and UX leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure generative and evaluative research is embedded throughout the product design process.
- Share research findings and insights to help drive decision-making, recognizing that great products are achieved iteratively, within scope and budget, emphasizing progress over perfection.
- Raise potential roadblocks to leadership and collaborate to remove blockers or find alternate paths forward.
- Maintain the high standards set by the group, including channel standards, content standards and the Schwab Advisor Services design system.
Why your work matters:
- You will support an engaged set of users who rely on our products to manage their businesses and their clients’ financial lives.
- By understanding user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with Schwab.
- You will learn how to balance functionality against complexity on a highly visible platform which serves millions of advisors and retail customers.
- You will work with an engaged product design team that fosters a learning environment.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in UX, CX, or Service Design Research
- A strong command of mixed methods across the full product design lifecycle.
- Experience in enterprise or large-scale, B2B environments
- Experience supporting both long-term strategy development and detailed design execution.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, able to turn complex findings into clear, persuasive narratives for diverse audiences.
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence design, product, and technology partners.
- Strong self-management skills, comfortable with working directly with our partners.
- Proven track record of navigating complex situations and projects successfully.
Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic.
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
Eligible Schwabbies receive
Medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) and employee stock purchase plans
Tuition reimbursement to keep developing your career
Paid parental leave and adoption/family building benefits
Sabbatical leave available after five years of employment
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in User Experience Researcher
Match your degree to the posted requirements
PERM locks in the job's minimum education requirement before your employer files. If the role is posted as requiring a bachelor's in human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, or a related field, your degree must match that field, not just any bachelor's.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter User Experience Researcher roles by employers who have previously filed PERM applications, so you're pursuing companies that already understand the green card sponsorship process rather than educating them from scratch.
Build a UX research portfolio that documents specialization
USCIS scrutinizes whether your role genuinely requires an advanced degree. A portfolio demonstrating specialized methodologies, such as longitudinal studies or mixed-methods research, strengthens your employer's case that the position is EB-2-level work.
Verify the prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL-determined prevailing wage for your specific SOC code and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level II or Level III wage for your role before you finalize any offer letter.
Ask about PERM timing during the offer stage
PERM labor certification currently takes around 12 to 18 months at DOL before your employer can file the I-140 petition. Confirm whether your employer plans to begin PERM immediately after you start or after a probationary period ends.
Use O*NET to align your job duties with the approved occupation
The O*NET profile for User Experience Researcher defines the tasks, skills, and knowledge areas DOL expects for the occupation. Framing your resume and offer letter language around these descriptors reduces the risk of a PERM audit or denial.
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Does a User Experience Researcher role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
It depends on how the employer defines the position's minimum requirements. If the role requires a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience, it can qualify for EB-2. A role posted with a bachelor's degree as the minimum falls under EB-3. The employer must maintain that minimum requirement consistently through the PERM process and cannot raise it later to accommodate you specifically.
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B is a temporary nonimmigrant status requiring renewal and subject to the annual lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency with no cap concerns at the EB-3 level for many countries. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM alone takes over a year, and EB-2 India and China face long priority date backlogs. For nationals of other countries, EB-3 can move relatively quickly after I-140 approval.
What documentation do you typically need to support a PERM-based UX researcher application?
Your employer drives PERM documentation, but you'll need to provide degree transcripts, credential evaluations if your degree is from outside the U.S., and detailed records of relevant work experience. Because PERM requires the employer to verify your qualifications meet the posted minimum, gaps between your background and the job description can trigger an audit. Organizing these materials before the PERM filing begins speeds up the process considerably.
How do you find User Experience Researcher jobs where the employer is already open to green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search User Experience Researcher roles filtered by employers with green card and PERM filing history, so you're not cold-pitching companies on sponsorship. Many UX researcher positions never mention sponsorship in the job posting itself, so filtering by employer filing history rather than job description keywords surfaces opportunities that would otherwise be invisible.
Can you switch UX research jobs while your green card application is in progress?
Changing employers during PERM or before your I-140 is approved restarts the process entirely. Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, AC21 portability may allow you to move to a similar role without losing your place in the queue. The new role must be in the same or a similar occupational classification, which for UX researchers generally means staying within user research or closely related product design functions.
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