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The Windows & Devices Research & Design organization in Redmond, WA is seeking a Senior User Experience Researcher role to build the next generation of tools, systems, and infrastructure that enable UX Research to scale in new ways across the Windows organization.
This technical role helps close the distance between what our researchers know and what the organization can act on. In close partnership with UX researchers, product managers, designers, data science, and engineering leaders, you will create and champion research tools that teams value and adopt—systems that make insights findable, composable, and ready for both human and AI-powered workflows. By connecting knowledge across studies, product areas, and audiences, your work will help surface broader patterns and opportunities that no single study can reveal. Success requires equal parts program strategy, operational excellence, and fundamental UXR skills with the opportunity to shape how Windows learns from customers and improves experiences reaching millions of users.
The ideal candidate is passionate about building systems that drive measurable improvements in UX quality and craft. You bring hands-on research experience, fluency working with data at scale, and the technical ability to architect, prototype, and operationalize tools and AI-enabled systems. You are as equally energized by doing the research as you are by building the systems that support and amplify it. You have concrete examples of tools you have personally built and delivered end to end that changed how organizations work. You create structure and repeatability by turning one-off activities into sustainable programs, and you know how to use AI and automation to improve efficiency.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Design, operationalize, and maintain research infrastructure and quality scaling programs, including our research knowledge system.
- Leverage AI agents, agentic systems, and self-service infrastructure to scale quality programs across hundreds of product makers.
- Partner with UX researchers, product managers, designers, and engineering leaders to co-create programs that drive overall product and experience quality that teams value and adopt.
- Establish measurement frameworks that track program adoption, quality outcomes, and the impact of customer feedback and UX quality programs on product decisions, demonstrating how programmatic customer connections improve shipped experiences.
- Champion and drive adoption of new tools through training, best practices, showcase examples, and ongoing support that helps teams naturally integrate into their workflows.
- Continuously evolve tools and systems based on team feedback, emerging AI capabilities, and metrics, innovating on how the systems drive measurable improvements in product excellence.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Doctorate in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 1+ year(s) User Experience Research experience.
- OR Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 3+ years User Experience Research experience.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 4+ years User Experience Research experience.
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of research operations and research methodologies with end-to-end experience building production-quality internal tools, research platforms, data pipelines, and/or AI-enabled workflows.
- Ability to translate research and operational requirements into technical system designs. Experience with data modeling, taxonomies, or ontology design for both structured and unstructured data.
- Experience building or managing data pipelines (ingestion, storage, transformation, data delivery) as well as data cleansing, enrichment, aggregation and integration. Experience with modern data platforms for storing, transforming, and surfacing data at scale, especially Microsoft Fabric and data lakehouses.
- Track record of measuring and demonstrating program impact on product quality metrics, user satisfaction scores, or business outcomes, with compelling examples of quality improvements driven by systematic customer feedback.
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UX Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.
The Windows & Devices Research & Design organization in Redmond, WA is seeking a Senior User Experience Researcher role to build the next generation of tools, systems, and infrastructure that enable UX Research to scale in new ways across the Windows organization.
This technical role helps close the distance between what our researchers know and what the organization can act on. In close partnership with UX researchers, product managers, designers, data science, and engineering leaders, you will create and champion research tools that teams value and adopt—systems that make insights findable, composable, and ready for both human and AI-powered workflows. By connecting knowledge across studies, product areas, and audiences, your work will help surface broader patterns and opportunities that no single study can reveal. Success requires equal parts program strategy, operational excellence, and fundamental UXR skills with the opportunity to shape how Windows learns from customers and improves experiences reaching millions of users.
The ideal candidate is passionate about building systems that drive measurable improvements in UX quality and craft. You bring hands-on research experience, fluency working with data at scale, and the technical ability to architect, prototype, and operationalize tools and AI-enabled systems. You are as equally energized by doing the research as you are by building the systems that support and amplify it. You have concrete examples of tools you have personally built and delivered end to end that changed how organizations work. You create structure and repeatability by turning one-off activities into sustainable programs, and you know how to use AI and automation to improve efficiency.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Design, operationalize, and maintain research infrastructure and quality scaling programs, including our research knowledge system.
- Leverage AI agents, agentic systems, and self-service infrastructure to scale quality programs across hundreds of product makers.
- Partner with UX researchers, product managers, designers, and engineering leaders to co-create programs that drive overall product and experience quality that teams value and adopt.
- Establish measurement frameworks that track program adoption, quality outcomes, and the impact of customer feedback and UX quality programs on product decisions, demonstrating how programmatic customer connections improve shipped experiences.
- Champion and drive adoption of new tools through training, best practices, showcase examples, and ongoing support that helps teams naturally integrate into their workflows.
- Continuously evolve tools and systems based on team feedback, emerging AI capabilities, and metrics, innovating on how the systems drive measurable improvements in product excellence.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Doctorate in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 1+ year(s) User Experience Research experience.
- OR Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 3+ years User Experience Research experience.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 4+ years User Experience Research experience.
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of research operations and research methodologies with end-to-end experience building production-quality internal tools, research platforms, data pipelines, and/or AI-enabled workflows.
- Ability to translate research and operational requirements into technical system designs. Experience with data modeling, taxonomies, or ontology design for both structured and unstructured data.
- Experience building or managing data pipelines (ingestion, storage, transformation, data delivery) as well as data cleansing, enrichment, aggregation and integration. Experience with modern data platforms for storing, transforming, and surfacing data at scale, especially Microsoft Fabric and data lakehouses.
- Track record of measuring and demonstrating program impact on product quality metrics, user satisfaction scores, or business outcomes, with compelling examples of quality improvements driven by systematic customer feedback.
#W+DJOBS
UX Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in user researcher jobs.
- 3 or more years of experience conducting qualitative and quantitative user research
- Proficiency with tools such as UserTesting, Lookback, Qualtrics, or Dovetail
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end research projects with documented business impact
- Experience with usability testing, contextual inquiry, surveys, and diary studies
- Bachelor's or master's degree in human-computer interaction, psychology, or a related field
- Ability to communicate research findings clearly to cross-functional product and design teams
Tips for Your User Researcher Job Search
Tailor your portfolio to methods not outcomes
Hiring managers review portfolios to see how you think, not just what launched. For each case study, walk through your research question, the method you chose and why, your analysis process, and how findings shaped a decision. Skip the polished deck that hides your reasoning.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists user researcher openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Match your methods to each team's stack
Job postings often signal whether a team leans qualitative, quantitative, or mixed. If a listing mentions Qualtrics or Amplitude, emphasize survey and behavioral data work. If it names Lookback or UserTesting, lead with moderated sessions. Mirroring their tools reduces friction in the screen.
Frame research impact in product language
Describe findings in terms that product and design partners recognize: retention, task completion, drop-off, or error rate. Saying your research reduced onboarding abandonment is more legible to a hiring committee than saying you identified pain points in the flow.
Prepare a study design exercise for the interview
Most user researcher interviews include a live or take-home research design challenge. Practice scoping a study from a vague prompt, selecting an appropriate method, defining a recruitment screener, and explaining your analysis plan before you have results. Interviewers want to see structured thinking under ambiguity.
Negotiate scope before accepting an offer
Before signing, ask how research is embedded on product teams, whether the role includes participant recruitment or relies on a dedicated ops function, and how findings typically reach decision makers. These factors shape your day-to-day autonomy more than title or level.
User Researcher Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most user researchers?
The companies hiring the most user researchers right now include Exponent, Xometry, and Capital One, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is highest at companies with dedicated product design organizations and ongoing investment in research operations.
How many user researcher jobs are remote?
About 68% of user researcher openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, making it one of the more flexible roles in the product discipline. Fully remote positions are most common for senior individual contributors and roles focused on unmoderated research, since those methods require less real-time coordination with in-person teams.
How do you become a user researcher?
Start by building foundational skills in qualitative methods like interviews and usability testing, and quantitative methods like surveys and behavioral analysis. Take on research projects in any setting you can access, such as volunteer work, student projects, or bootcamp programs, and document your process and findings in a portfolio. Then target entry-level or associate researcher roles at companies with established research functions, where you can develop under senior researchers.
Can you get a user researcher job with no experience?
You can break into user research without professional experience by building a portfolio through self-initiated projects, academic coursework, or volunteer research for nonprofits and early-stage startups. Hiring managers at entry-level focus on your ability to design a study, recruit participants, and synthesize findings, not your job history. Roles titled research coordinator, research associate, or research operations are common entry points.
What does the user researcher interview process look like?
The user researcher interview process typically includes an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation about your research background and methods, and a skills exercise where you design a study or critique an existing research plan. Final rounds often involve presenting a portfolio case study to a panel of product, design, and research stakeholders, followed by questions about how you communicate findings and handle ambiguous research briefs.
Where can I find and apply to user researcher jobs?
You can find and apply to user researcher jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and the methods you want to use, and apply directly to each listing.
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