Senior UX Researcher, Customer & Partner Experience
Summary
ServiceNow is hiring a Senior UX Researcher in Chicago (remote-friendly) to champion customer and partner needs across its product portfolio — planning and running qualitative and quantitative studies, testing designs, and turning insights into strategy with PMs and designers. Core skills: UX research methods, usability testing, and synthesis.
What you get to do in this role:
- Represent the needs of customers across the product and design lifecycle from discovery through design validation and customer adoption across a portfolio of products
- Apply and adapt appropriate research techniques and methods for specific project needs
- Engage with customers to understand their unique needs for our products, including defining and synthesizing user types, use cases, and specific UX opportunities
- Partner with Product Managers and Designers to influence product strategy and roadmaps
- Validate feature and design direction through participatory design, early concept testing, formative and summative usability testing.
- Analyze and synthesize qualitative studies and quantitative data across studies and secondary research to generate strategic and tactical insights with actionable recommendations.
- Communicate findings through artifacts such as specific user segments, persona frameworks, jobs to be done, user journeys, task analyses, etc
Basic Qualifications (The must have):
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
- Solid experience in applying customer-centered research techniques to product definition and designs
- Understanding and experience in defining, planning and executing research studies including outlining objectives, goals, and timelines. This includes developing sample plans and determining the best data collection approach using quantitative and/or qualitative methods
- A portfolio with examples of work representing research that influenced great insights or experiences. This includes examples of research goals, research methodologies used, the process followed, your involvement and role, data visualizations, and crisply articulated insights from the research
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of work experience conducting customer-centered research
- Experience developing insightful, probing questions that resonate with both highly technical individuals through business minded end-users using enterprise software
- Deeper knowledge of user interface design, usability evaluation techniques, task analysis, and experimental design
- Experience with the creation and execution of online surveys as well as rich qualitative research techniques
- Excellent presentation skills to visualize technically complex topics and make them easy to understand with customers as well as product management and design stakeholders
- The ability to learn new technical concepts quickly
For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $128,900 - $219,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
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What they ask for
Required
- Experience leveraging or critically thinking about integrating AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving
- Solid experience applying customer-centered research techniques to product definition and designs
- Experience defining, planning and executing research studies including objectives, goals, timelines, sample plans, and data collection approaches (quantitative and/or qualitative)
- Portfolio with examples of research that influenced insights or experiences, including goals, methodologies, role, visualizations, and articulated insights
Preferred
- 5+ years of work experience conducting customer-centered research
- Experience developing probing questions that resonate with highly technical individuals through business-minded end-users of enterprise software
- Deeper knowledge of UI design, usability evaluation techniques, task analysis, and experimental design
- Experience creating and executing online surveys as well as rich qualitative research techniques
- Excellent presentation skills to visualize technically complex topics for customers and product/design stakeholders
- Ability to learn new technical concepts quickly