[Hiring] UX Researcher @Lifted, an Upwork Company™

Role Description

We are seeking a senior-level UX Researcher to support an enterprise employee-experience and internal-tooling research portfolio. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for a researcher who can independently take ambiguous questions from initial scoping through study execution, synthesis, and decision-ready recommendations. The work will span enterprise product, service, and operational workflows, with particular emphasis on understanding users' jobs, evaluating AI-enabled self-service experiences, and identifying opportunities to improve productivity and support experiences. Enterprise experience strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on UX research experience at a senior individual-contributor level.
• Demonstrated ability to independently scope, execute, analyze, and synthesize research studies.
• Strong qualitative research-method selection, execution, and analysis skills.
• Strong quantitative research-method selection, execution, and analysis skills.
• Experience researching enterprise internal tools, employee experience, or complex cross-functional workflows.
• Experience working within enterprise product, service, and operational workflows.
• Ability to translate research into clear, decision-ready recommendations for product and operational stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying a jobs-to-be-done framework or comparable strategic research framework across multiple initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic research frameworks into product and operational decisions.
• Strong stakeholder-management experience across Product, Design, Engineering, Operations, and Service teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including concise research readouts and executive-ready storytelling.
• Proficiency with research platforms supporting participant recruitment, moderated and unmoderated studies, surveys, and synthesis.
• Working knowledge of research repositories and documentation tools.
• Comfort using collaboration and documentation systems to maintain traceable research artifacts, findings, and decisions.

Requirements

• Independently plan and conduct mixed-method qualitative and quantitative research across priority enterprise initiatives.
• Translate ambiguous business and product questions into clear research plans, appropriate methodologies, and actionable study designs.
• Plan and moderate research evaluating AI-enabled self-service experiences and opportunities to improve employee support.
• Test AI-enabled concepts to understand jobs to be done, adoption barriers, trust, validation behavior, and readiness for broader rollout.
• Develop participant and recruitment strategies, research plans, discussion guides, study materials, and other research artifacts.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative findings into concise, decision-ready recommendations for product, service, and operational stakeholders.
• Maintain and extend a jobs-to-be-done framework across multiple initiatives and connect new research findings to broader strategic opportunities.
• Translate jobs-to-be-done insights into product and operational decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, Operations, and Service stakeholders.
• Produce clear research readouts, executive-ready storytelling, and documentation of findings, implications, decisions, and recommended next steps.
• Maintain traceable research artifacts and findings using collaboration, documentation, and research-repository systems.
• Partner with stakeholders to validate tooling and experience decisions before broader rollout.
• Connect individual studies to an ongoing strategic research framework and help identify opportunities to improve self-service, reduce confusion, and streamline workflows.

Benefits

• Remote contract engagement.
• Candidates must be based in an approved LATAM location, excluding Mexico.
• Preference for availability aligned with Central Time working hours.
• Full-time allocation of approximately 40 hours per week.
• Current engagement end date: March 31, 2027.