# Principal UX Researcher

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Redmond, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $142,800 – $274,800 per year
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Microsoft AI Monetization is a customer-first organisation dedicated to building the next generation of AI-powered products that serve our customers’ business goals.

We are seeking a Principal UX Researcher to help us set the path for our next generation of AI-powered experiences focused on monetization. You will work across organisational roles to uncover the unspoken questions and beliefs and answer them with precision, detail, and durability. You will be a solid mixed-methods researcher comfortable in interviews and with deep data analysis.

**Responsibilities**

- Understand the behaviours, motivations, needs, and aspirations of our customers to create a differentiated advantage in our ability to build relevant and impactful experiences for people across the world.

- Drive product strategy through rigorous programs of multi-stage research executed to the highest standards.

- Balance rigor with scrappiness and the ability to push with a fast-moving team.

- Drive cross-team collaborations among all disciplines from early product stages to final implementations.

- Guide teams in creative new directions and help set ambitious goals that stand out from the crowd.

- Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our processes, culture, and influence our approach to research.

- Lead research on highly visible products or set of business initiatives with notable risk and complexity.

- Regularly influence at the highest levels of organisations.

- Elevate the research craft of the team.

- Embody our culture and values.

**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 3+ years 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 4+ 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 6+ years User Experience Research experience OR equivalent experience.

**Preferred 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 5+ years 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 8+ 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 10+ years user experience research experience OR equivalent experience.

- 8+ years experience working in UX research or a related field.

- High-level research skills across methods, qualitative and quantitative.

- Excellent communication and presentation/storytelling skills, with the ability to energize and activate teams.

- Experience working in B2B and B2C product spaces.

- Experience working on AI products.

- Demonstrated championing of fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design.

- Experience with commonly used research tools.

**Salary** The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 – $274,800 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Human-Computer Interaction
- User Experience Research
- Mixed Methods Research

### Nice to have
- AI
- B2B
- B2C
- Accessibility
- Inclusive Design

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