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User Researcher jobs are open across technology, healthcare, financial services, and consumer products, from junior researcher to principal and research lead, with specializations in usability testing, mixed-methods research, and accessibility. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
Peloton is seeking a User Researcher to support the innovation, iteration, and optimization of our products. This User Researcher will work directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Engineers to better understand how users are interacting with Peloton products through user research and testing and to inform and evaluate new features and experiences developed by product teams.
This role will work on the User Research team and will report to our Director of User Research.
YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON
- Collaborate directly with Researchers, Product Designers, Content Designers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Engineers to define and align on research objectives and methodologies
- Build and implement research plans, choosing efficient methodologies (qualitative and/or quantitative) to answer Product and UX research questions that produce new concrete insights
- Work closely with Research Coordinators to define recruitment strategy, handle logistics and scheduling, and incentivize participants
- Regularly conduct discovery (user interviews, diary studies, surveys), tactical (e.g. iterative usability studies), and evaluative research (e.g., usability studies, concept evaluations, benchmarking, heuristic evaluations) on Peloton products, to identify problems and ensure that the current experience is constantly improving
- Define, design, and implement moderated and un-moderated usability studies on flat designs, prototypes, beta, and finished digital experiences
- Compile and present findings to the relevant partners in a clear and concrete way they can use to design product improvements
- Help to formulate research documentation to better understand Peloton-specific user behavior
- Document and track takeaways gathered through testing and research so insights can easily be referenced and applied for future projects
WHAT YOU BRING TO PELOTON
- Master of basic usability testing, familiar and/or experienced with several other primary research methods
- 2+ years of User Research and Testing experience
- Analyze and synthesize research and testing data, and report it in a concise and concrete way
- Develop processes to organize work across multiple people and teams
- Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Versed in remote and in-person user research methodologies
- Communicate and utilize storytelling effectively
- Thrive on managing multiple priorities and executing projects
- Open to learning new methodologies and tools
- Comfortable incorporating AI tools into research workflows to support efficiency and productivity
- Work collaboratively in a team environment
- Demonstrate initiative by acting as a self-starter; operate autonomously and also accepts support and guidance that is offered while proactively seeking it when needed
- Operate with attention to detail
- Degree in Human/Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, or Psychology, or equivalent experience
ABOUT PELOTON:
Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) provides Members with expert instruction, and world class content to create impactful and entertaining workout experiences for anyone, anywhere and at any stage in their fitness journey. At home, outdoors, traveling, or at the gym, Peloton brings together innovative hardware, distinctive software, and exclusive content. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has millions of Members across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Austria.
Peloton is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Peloton, where all team members, applicants, and other covered persons are considered on the basis of their personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, unemployment status, familial status, domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking victim status, caregiver status, or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable law. This policy of equal employment opportunity applies to all practices and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. If you would like to request any accommodations from application through to interview, please email: applicantaccommodations@onepeloton.com.
At Peloton, we embrace technology, including AI, to enhance productivity and accelerate innovation in the work we do for our members. However, in our hiring process, our priority remains in getting to know you and your unique qualifications. To ensure a fair and equitable process, we do not permit the use of AI tools during any stage of the application and interview process. In considering you as an applicant, we want to understand your skills, experiences, and motivations without mediation through an AI system. We also want to directly assess your communication skills without the use of an AI tool.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable to applicants applying for positions in these jurisdictions.
Please be aware that fictitious job openings, consulting engagements, solicitations, or employment offers may be circulated on the Internet in an attempt to obtain privileged information, or to induce you to pay a fee for services related to recruitment or training. Peloton does NOT charge any application, processing, or training fee at any stage of the recruitment or hiring process. All genuine job openings will be posted here on our careers page and all communications from the Peloton recruiting team and/or hiring managers will be from an @onepeloton.com email address.
If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Peloton, please email applicantaccommodations@onepeloton.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.
Peloton does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Peloton employees or any other organization location. Peloton is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Peloton is seeking a User Researcher to support the innovation, iteration, and optimization of our products. This User Researcher will work directly with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Engineers to better understand how users are interacting with Peloton products through user research and testing and to inform and evaluate new features and experiences developed by product teams.
This role will work on the User Research team and will report to our Director of User Research.
YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON
- Collaborate directly with Researchers, Product Designers, Content Designers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Engineers to define and align on research objectives and methodologies
- Build and implement research plans, choosing efficient methodologies (qualitative and/or quantitative) to answer Product and UX research questions that produce new concrete insights
- Work closely with Research Coordinators to define recruitment strategy, handle logistics and scheduling, and incentivize participants
- Regularly conduct discovery (user interviews, diary studies, surveys), tactical (e.g. iterative usability studies), and evaluative research (e.g., usability studies, concept evaluations, benchmarking, heuristic evaluations) on Peloton products, to identify problems and ensure that the current experience is constantly improving
- Define, design, and implement moderated and un-moderated usability studies on flat designs, prototypes, beta, and finished digital experiences
- Compile and present findings to the relevant partners in a clear and concrete way they can use to design product improvements
- Help to formulate research documentation to better understand Peloton-specific user behavior
- Document and track takeaways gathered through testing and research so insights can easily be referenced and applied for future projects
WHAT YOU BRING TO PELOTON
- Master of basic usability testing, familiar and/or experienced with several other primary research methods
- 2+ years of User Research and Testing experience
- Analyze and synthesize research and testing data, and report it in a concise and concrete way
- Develop processes to organize work across multiple people and teams
- Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Versed in remote and in-person user research methodologies
- Communicate and utilize storytelling effectively
- Thrive on managing multiple priorities and executing projects
- Open to learning new methodologies and tools
- Comfortable incorporating AI tools into research workflows to support efficiency and productivity
- Work collaboratively in a team environment
- Demonstrate initiative by acting as a self-starter; operate autonomously and also accepts support and guidance that is offered while proactively seeking it when needed
- Operate with attention to detail
- Degree in Human/Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, or Psychology, or equivalent experience
ABOUT PELOTON:
Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) provides Members with expert instruction, and world class content to create impactful and entertaining workout experiences for anyone, anywhere and at any stage in their fitness journey. At home, outdoors, traveling, or at the gym, Peloton brings together innovative hardware, distinctive software, and exclusive content. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has millions of Members across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Austria.
Peloton is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Peloton, where all team members, applicants, and other covered persons are considered on the basis of their personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, unemployment status, familial status, domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking victim status, caregiver status, or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable law. This policy of equal employment opportunity applies to all practices and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. If you would like to request any accommodations from application through to interview, please email: applicantaccommodations@onepeloton.com.
At Peloton, we embrace technology, including AI, to enhance productivity and accelerate innovation in the work we do for our members. However, in our hiring process, our priority remains in getting to know you and your unique qualifications. To ensure a fair and equitable process, we do not permit the use of AI tools during any stage of the application and interview process. In considering you as an applicant, we want to understand your skills, experiences, and motivations without mediation through an AI system. We also want to directly assess your communication skills without the use of an AI tool.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable to applicants applying for positions in these jurisdictions.
Please be aware that fictitious job openings, consulting engagements, solicitations, or employment offers may be circulated on the Internet in an attempt to obtain privileged information, or to induce you to pay a fee for services related to recruitment or training. Peloton does NOT charge any application, processing, or training fee at any stage of the recruitment or hiring process. All genuine job openings will be posted here on our careers page and all communications from the Peloton recruiting team and/or hiring managers will be from an @onepeloton.com email address.
If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Peloton, please email applicantaccommodations@onepeloton.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.
Peloton does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Peloton employees or any other organization location. Peloton is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Glean Technologies2
- NVIDIA2
- ARB Interactive1
- Angi1
- Deepfraud Technologies1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software14
- Education2
- Consulting & Professional Services1
- Electronics & Hardware1
- Insurance1
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 Glean Technologies, NVIDIA, and ARB Interactive, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 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 41% of user researcher openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 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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