Title: Senior UX Designer - SDIC
Company: Samsung Research America
Design Lab: SDIC
Location: San Francisco, CA

Lab Summary

At SDIC, we are looking for creatively skilled and collaborative designers to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product design, from identifying unmet and latent needs, discovering untapped design opportunities, crafting new product concepts, to building and applying technology that tackles real user problems and pushes the boundaries that re-imagine the way we interact with products.

Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, and other devices we can’t describe, yet. See some of our work at http://design.samsung.com/global/contents/sdic/

Position Summary

We are looking for an experienced UX Designer to join our team. You will be responsible for helping define and drive the future of our products. You will reveal what our users need from our products by conducting research, working with cross-functional teams, and performing usability studies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a human behavior related field, such as Human-Computer Interaction (or experience in a related field or equivalent practical experience and training)
  • 4+ years of relevant experience within user experience applied research setting and/or product research and development
  • Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods
  • Experience synthesizing large-scale data in multi-method studies
  • Experience with survey design and response effects
  • Experience planning and executing complex research projects in a product group or business area, working across multiple projects simultaneously
  • Experience identifying, initiating, and leading projects of large scope that contribute to the greater research/product team through mentoring, culture, subject matter, or research expertise
  • Experience building meaningful cross-functional relationships
  • Experience translating research findings into strategic narratives
  • Effective communication skills with experience presenting to diverse audiences
  • Experience coding with R, SQL or SPSS

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product and business teams to identify research topics
  • Act as a thought leader in the domain of research, while advocating for the people who do or could use our products
  • Contribute to research team strategy within org
  • Work broadly across team to help identify trade-offs between short and long-term research goals and select right mix of projects to benefit team
  • Design studies that address both user behavior and attitudes
  • Generate insights that both fuel ideation and evaluate designs
  • Conduct research using a wide variety of methods, and interpret analysis through the lens of UX, HCI, and social science
  • Work cross-functionally with design, product management, content strategy, engineering, and marketing
  • Partner with engineers, analysts, and other technical roles to create and share research
  • Communicate results and illustrate suggestions in compelling and creative ways

 

Be Bold. Resonate with Soul.

SDIC drives innovation and creates disruptive user experiences. From ideation to prototype to final product launch to market, the team is in charge of all product development phases. SDIC also leads and envisions future concepts, and develops products, technologies, and ecosystem of services for these concepts.

We will consider qualified applicants for employment with arrest and conviction records.

Additional Information

Work Hours

Incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

Physical Requirements

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.

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If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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