Ux Researcher (E-Commerce + Dtc) - Freelance [Remote]

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• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $80 – $110/hr
• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote - Work from anywhere (TimeZone: CST | Partial overlap)
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
Must have own LLC in order to apply
Required Experience:

• High level of understanding of information architecture, user experience, and content strategy
• Strong experience with analytics tools
• Expert level experience preparing presentations and presenting to key stakeholders and the fortitude to stay calm under pressure.
• Confident in UX strategy and able to facilitate workshops with colleagues from a range of disciplines
• Expert knowledge of UX principles and tools
• Expert in best practices used in the market and transitioning them forward into projects
• Working knowledge and work-related experience for Lean Kanban or Agile Scrum workflow methodologies
• Ability to conduct, design and analyze user experience and usability testing, incorporating testing best practices
• Exemplifies the ability to do UX strategy work with a consumer first mindset and create solutions based on business strategy and needs
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work autonomously, while being organized
• Background in all types of digital experiences, including mobile, tablet and responsive web design

What you’ll be working on
Responsibilities:

• Confidently present UX findings and help the user experience team align their direction with their organization’s business plan, delivered by the product owner and business owners.
• Facilitate workshops and design sprints with colleagues from all disciplines. Exemplify strategic, customer-centric decision making, and be a champion of UX principles.
• Collaborate with team to build UX artifacts and tools (personas, user flows, user journeys, ect.) heading into UX workshops.
• Conduct, design and analyze user experience and usability testing, incorporating testing best practices
• Collect data and consumer insights, found throughout the organization and from analytic research. With priorities in KPIs in mind leverage data to support and validate UX approach.
• Participate in testing products with the product team.
• Confidently analyze quantitative and qualitative user research testing to formulate UX plans. Iterate on already set hypothesis, always adjusting based on learnings.
• Be at the forefront of the latest emerging trends and industry developments for the website, device usage habits, social, search, eCRM, rich media, display, etc., and be an active participant in agency-wide knowledge sharing.

Apply Now!
Braintrust Job ID: 6661
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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