United Kingdom · Research and Development · Senior (5-8 years)

Senior User Experience Researcher

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandSenior (5-8 years)
Direct reportsNo direct reports
Reports toHead of User Experience Research
UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Senior UX Research Specialist · Lead User Insight Analyst · UX Strategist (Research Focus)

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1What this role really is

As a Senior User Experience Researcher, you're the person who digs deep to really understand our users – not just what they say, but what they actually do. You'll lead complex research projects from start to finish, helping our R&D teams build products that genuinely solve real problems. Think of yourself as the user's advocate, bringing their voice right into the heart of product development. This isn't just about running tests; it's about shaping our future offerings.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Dovetail (or similar Insight Repository)Advanced

Designing and managing the entire repository taxonomy; training junior team members on best practices for tagging and analysis; integrating findings with project management tools like Jira.

UserTesting.com / Lookback (or similar User Testing Platform)Advanced

Designing complex multi-step tests; moderating live sessions with tricky participants; analysing advanced metrics and identifying nuanced usability issues.

Qualtrics (or similar Advanced Survey Platform)Advanced

Mastering complex display logic, branching, and statistical analysis features (e.g., Conjoint, MaxDiff) for sophisticated quantitative studies; integrating survey data with other research sources.

Miro / FigJam (or similar Online Whiteboarding)Advanced

Designing and facilitating complex synthesis workshops (e.g., affinity diagramming, journey mapping) for cross-functional teams; creating visual summaries of research findings.

Mixpanel / Amplitude (or similar Product Analytics)Intermediate

Defining event tracking requirements with engineering; building complex dashboards to monitor user behaviour and identify areas for qualitative deep-dives; triangulating analytics with qualitative data.

UserInterviews.com / Ethnio (or similar Participant Recruitment)Advanced

Writing effective screeners for highly niche R&D audiences; building and managing a proprietary participant panel for ongoing research needs; optimising recruitment strategies.

PowerPoint / Canva (or similar Presentation Software)Advanced

Designing compelling, data-driven presentations that tell a clear story and lead to clear, actionable recommendations for leadership and product teams.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Research Methodology Selection	Proposes options, requires approval from Senior Researcher or Lead.	Selects methodology for routine problems, consults on novel ones.	Defines and justifies methodology for complex, ambiguous problems; consults Head of Research on highly experimental approaches.
Participant Recruitment Criteria	Follows pre-defined criteria, escalates any deviations.	Designs screeners for standard user groups, seeks feedback on niche audiences.	Develops and refines screeners for highly niche R&D audiences; builds and manages proprietary participant panels; makes trade-offs between speed and specificity.
Research Findings & Recommendations	Summarises findings, drafts recommendations for review.	Presents findings and recommendations for a defined product area, seeks manager approval.	Presents and defends findings and recommendations to cross-functional leadership; influences product roadmap decisions; accountable for the accuracy and impact of insights.
Project Prioritisation within Workstream	Executes tasks as prioritised by supervisor.	Prioritises own tasks within a project, escalates conflicts.	Prioritises and manages multiple research workstreams; negotiates with stakeholders on timelines and scope; escalates only major resource conflicts.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Insight Adoption Rate

Percentage of critical (P0/P1) research recommendations that are added to the product backlog.

Target · 75% of P0/P1 recommendations

After your generative research identified a key unmet need (P0), the Product team added it as a major theme for the next quarter's roadmap, showing 100% adoption for that finding.

Mentorship Success

Impact of your guidance on junior researchers' performance and career progression.

Target · One mentored junior researcher receives a top performance rating or promotion within 18 months.

A junior researcher you mentored on a complex mixed-methods study was able to independently present findings to leadership and received excellent feedback, contributing to their promotion.

R&D Rework Reduction

Contribution to reducing the number of post-launch usability issues for your assigned product area.

Target · 10% reduction in post-launch usability bug reports.

Through rigorous evaluative research before launch, your team identified and fixed 5 critical usability issues, resulting in 15% fewer support tickets related to UX post-launch compared to previous products.

Research Project Cycle Time

Average time from research brief approval to final insights presentation for complex studies.

Target · Complete complex studies within 6-8 weeks, on average.

You led a foundational research project that typically takes 10 weeks, but you delivered actionable insights in 7 weeks by optimising recruitment and analysis phases.

Proactive Insight Generation

Identifying and researching critical user problems or opportunities before Product or Design teams explicitly ask.

You're regularly bringing new, unprompted research ideas to the table. Product Managers actively seek your input early in the problem definition phase. Your insights lead to new feature ideas or strategic pivots that weren't initially on the roadmap.

Quality of Research Outputs

Clarity, depth, and actionability of your research findings and recommendations.

Stakeholders consistently say your reports are easy to understand and directly inform their decisions. Your recommendations are specific, evidence-backed, and clearly linked to business outcomes. Other researchers ask to see your reports as examples of 'good' work.

Stakeholder Influence & Partnership

Your ability to build trust and persuade cross-functional teams to act on research insights.

You're invited to strategic planning meetings, not just tactical ones. You successfully challenge assumptions with data, leading to better product decisions. Design and Product teams see you as a true partner, not just a service provider.

Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing

Effectiveness in guiding junior researchers and contributing to the team's overall research capability.

Junior researchers seek your advice and praise your guidance. You actively contribute to internal knowledge sharing sessions or create new templates/best practices for the team. You're seen as a subject matter expert in specific research methodologies.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Solving Real Problems

You get a real kick out of uncovering the root cause of a user's struggle and seeing your insights lead to a product that genuinely makes their life easier. It's about impact, not just activity.

Discovering through interviews that users are abandoning a complex setup process due to unclear instructions, and then seeing a redesigned flow based on your research reduce drop-offs by 30%.

Intellectual Challenge

You thrive on tackling ambiguous problems, designing clever research methodologies, and making sense of messy, contradictory data. Every project is a puzzle to solve.

Being given a vague brief like 'users aren't engaging with Feature X' and then designing a mixed-methods study to pinpoint the exact 'why' behind the 'what', revealing a completely unexpected user motivation.

Influencing Product Direction

You love being the voice of the user in strategic conversations, shaping the roadmap, and seeing your recommendations directly impact what gets built. You want your work to matter.

Presenting foundational research findings that lead to a major pivot in a product's long-term strategy, convincing leadership to invest in a new area based on unmet user needs.

What frustrates people

The 'Just Validate My Idea' Request: Being asked to run a quick study to 'prove' a stakeholder's idea, rather than being involved in the initial problem definition.
The 'N of 5' Dismissal: Presenting powerful qualitative insights only to have a quantitative-minded stakeholder dismiss them due to 'small sample size'.
The Insight-to-Action Gap: Spending weeks on research, only for the insights to be ignored or deprioritised in favour of other initiatives.
The Recruiting Nightmare: Burning days trying to find and schedule niche participants for a complex R&D project, taking time away from actual research.
Being the 'UX Speed Bump': Getting perceived as the person who slows down the 'agile' process by insisting on talking to users before building things.

What this role does not give you

A predictable, unchanging routine – every project brings new challenges and user groups.
Guaranteed immediate implementation of all your findings – influencing takes time and persistence.
A purely quantitative focus – you'll be dealing with messy, nuanced human stories most of the time.
A 'hands-off' approach – you're deeply embedded with product teams, not just delivering reports from an ivory tower.

6Who you work with

This role directly influences the direction of our product development within key R&D areas. Your insights help us avoid costly mistakes, identify genuine innovation opportunities, and ultimately build products that users love and find truly valuable. You're essentially the compass for our product teams, pointing them towards true user needs.

Inside the business

Product Managers (for defining problems and validating solutions)
Design Leads (for informing design decisions and iterations)
Engineering Teams (for understanding technical constraints and feasibility)
Data Scientists (for triangulating qualitative findings with quantitative data)
Junior UX Researchers (for mentorship and guidance)

Outside the business

End-users and Customers (your primary focus for research)
Industry Experts (for understanding market trends and best practices)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

Demonstrable experience (5+ years) leading end-to-end UX research projects in a product-focused environment, ideally within R&D or a complex technical domain.
A strong portfolio showcasing your ability to design and execute mixed-methods studies, translate findings into actionable insights, and influence product outcomes.
Proven ability to mentor junior team members and contribute to a positive, learning-oriented research culture.
Solid understanding of statistical concepts for survey design and quantitative data analysis (e.g., significance testing, correlation).

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Behavioural Experimentation

As our products become more sophisticated, understanding subtle behavioural nudges and their impact becomes crucial. This means designing more rigorous experiments beyond simple A/B tests to truly isolate causal factors.

Quasi-Experimental Designs · Multivariate Testing · Longitudinal Studies · Causal Inference Techniques

This quarter: Read up on classic behavioural science experiments and their methodologies.
Next quarter: Identify a product feature where a simple A/B test isn't enough, and propose a more advanced experimental design.
Within 6 months: Take an online course or attend a workshop on causal inference or advanced experimental design.
Within 12 months: Lead a complex behavioural experiment that directly informs a major R&D decision.

Quick win: Start by critically evaluating existing A/B test results within the company. Can you spot any potential confounding variables or alternative explanations? Discuss these with the data science team.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attending industry conferences (e.g., UX London, UXR Conference) to stay abreast of new trends and network with peers.
Participating in online courses or workshops on advanced research methodologies, behavioural science, or data analysis techniques.
Contributing to the broader UX research community through blog posts, presentations, or open-source projects.
Engaging in internal knowledge-sharing sessions, presenting your learnings, and actively seeking feedback from your peers.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration for Research

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like GPT to draft reports in minutes that used to take hours. Researchers who figure this out will outproduce their peers significantly. It's not a 'nice to have' anymore; it's becoming critical within months.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration for Research

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like GPT to draft reports in minutes that used to take hours. Researchers who figure this out will outproduce their peers significantly. It's not a 'nice to have' anymore; it's becoming critical within months.

Context Windows & Token Limits
Temperature Settings for Tasks
RAG Architectures
Output Validation & Hallucination Detection
Prompt Chaining for Complex Analysis

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Mixed-Methods Research Design
Generative & Foundational Research
Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework
Research Operations (ResearchOps)
Behavioral Science Application
Stakeholder-Centric Synthesis

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
From UX Researcher (Level 002)
2-3 years in a Mid-Level role.
Skills to master
- Leading end-to-end projects independently, designing mixed-methods studies, effectively managing stakeholders, and beginning to mentor junior colleagues.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully delivered several complex research projects with minimal supervision.
- Consistently provided actionable insights that led to product improvements.
- Proactively identified new research opportunities, not just reacted to requests.
- Demonstrated strong communication and influence with cross-functional teams.
2
From Product Designer with Research Specialisation
Roughly 5-7 years in design, with a strong focus on user research.
Skills to master
- Deepening research methodology expertise, moving beyond evaluative testing to generative research, and developing strong data synthesis and storytelling skills.
You're ready to move on when
- Led the research component for multiple design projects, not just participated.
- Can articulate the 'why' behind design decisions using robust research evidence.
- Comfortable designing and running qualitative studies (interviews, ethnography) as well as usability tests.
- Has a portfolio demonstrating strong research outputs alongside design work.
3
From Data Analyst / Data Scientist (with Qualitative Focus)
Around 5-7 years in data analysis, with a keen interest in human behaviour.
Skills to master
- Developing strong qualitative research skills (interviewing, observation, thematic analysis), understanding research ethics, and translating quantitative findings into human-centred narratives.
You're ready to move on when
- Demonstrated ability to go beyond numbers to understand user motivations and context.
- Has experience with survey design and analysis, including open-ended questions.
- Actively sought out opportunities to conduct user interviews or contextual inquiries.
- Can clearly communicate complex data insights to non-technical audiences.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here isn't just a job; it's a chance to build a meaningful career, constantly learning, growing, and making a real impact on the products we build and the lives of our users. We're excited to see where you take it.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Senior User Experience Researcher is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

User ExperienceLevel 5

Applied to your work in Senior User Experience Researcher

The objective of this unit is to equip learners with a thorough understanding of User Experience (UX) design principles and methodologies. Learners will be able to analyse user needs and contexts to specify effective user experiences, select appropriate user interface styles, and evaluate the usability of user interfaces. This will enable them to create user-centred designs that meet both user requirements and business goals.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Senior User Experience Researcher

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Insight Adoption RatePercentage of critical (P0/P1) research recommendations that are added to the product backlog.After your generative research identified a key unmet need (P0), the Product team added it as a major theme for the next quarter's roadmap, showing 100% adoption for that finding.75% of P0/P1 recommendations
Mentorship SuccessImpact of your guidance on junior researchers' performance and career progression.A junior researcher you mentored on a complex mixed-methods study was able to independently present findings to leadership and received excellent feedback, contributing to their promotion.One mentored junior researcher receives a top performance rating or promotion within 18 months.
R&D Rework ReductionContribution to reducing the number of post-launch usability issues for your assigned product area.Through rigorous evaluative research before launch, your team identified and fixed 5 critical usability issues, resulting in 15% fewer support tickets related to UX post-launch compared to previous products.10% reduction in post-launch usability bug reports.
Research Project Cycle TimeAverage time from research brief approval to final insights presentation for complex studies.You led a foundational research project that typically takes 10 weeks, but you delivered actionable insights in 7 weeks by optimising recruitment and analysis phases.Complete complex studies within 6-8 weeks, on average.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Senior User Experience Researcher to Staff UX Researcher (Level 004), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Staff UX Researcher (Level 004)→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey here isn't just a job; it's a chance to build a meaningful career, constantly learning, growing, and making a real impact on the products we build and the lives of our users. We're excited to see where you take it.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Senior User Experience Researcher

Mixed-Methods Research Design
Generative & Foundational Research
Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework
Research Operations (ResearchOps)
Behavioral Science Application
Stakeholder-Centric Synthesis

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Senior User Experience Researcher is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Staff UX Researcher (Level 004)
3-5 years as a Senior UX Researcher.
This is a significant step, moving from leading workstreams to architecting solutions for complex, cross-functional challenges. You'll be pioneering new methodologies and influencing strategy across multiple product teams.
- Pioneering New Methodologies: Introducing and championing novel research approaches within the organisation.
- Cross-Functional Research Architecture: Designing research programmes that span multiple product teams or business units.
- Research Roadmapping: Developing and owning the research roadmap for a significant part of the R&D portfolio.
- Advanced Data Synthesis & Modelling: Creating more sophisticated frameworks for integrating diverse data sources into predictive models.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, a big chunk of a researcher's time goes into repetitive, often tedious tasks. Imagine if you could get those hours back. Our R&D team is embracing AI to do just that, giving you more time for the truly strategic, human-centred work you love.

We're not talking about replacing your brain; we're talking about giving you a powerful assistant. For a Senior UX Researcher, AI isn't just a gimmick—it's a game-changer for speeding up analysis, drafting reports, and even helping you design better studies. Here's how you'll actually use it day-to-day to reclaim your time.

Automated Transcription & Summarisation

Forget spending hours transcribing interviews. AI tools can instantly turn hours of user conversations into accurate text. The real magic? They can then pull out key themes, quotes, and action items from those raw transcripts, giving you a head start on analysis. You'll focus on the 'why' instead of the 'what was said'.

Thematic Analysis Acceleration

Imagine feeding hundreds of open-ended survey responses or user feedback tickets into an AI model. It can perform initial thematic clustering, turning a multi-day manual coding task into a 30-minute starting point. You'll then refine, interpret, and add your expert human touch, but the grunt work is gone.

Research Plan & Script Generation

Got a new research project? Give an AI assistant your goals, target user, and key questions. It can generate a robust first draft of an interview script, a recruiting screener, or a survey, complete with question types and logical flow. You'll spend less time staring at a blank page and more time refining the nuances.

First-Draft Reporting & Synthesis

After you've tagged your data in a tool like Dovetail, use AI to generate a first-draft research report. It can pull key quotes, charts, and findings into a structured narrative. This frees you up to focus on the higher-level strategic synthesis, crafting compelling stories, and making those critical recommendations.

Common questions

How do you become a Senior User Experience Researcher?

Common routes in include From UX Researcher (Level 002) (2-3 years in a Mid-Level role.), From Product Designer with Research Specialisation (Roughly 5-7 years in design, with a strong focus on user research.) and From Data Analyst / Data Scientist (with Qualitative Focus) (Around 5-7 years in data analysis, with a keen interest in human behaviour.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Senior User Experience Researcher progress to?

This role can lead on to Staff UX Researcher (Level 004) (3-5 years as a Senior UX Researcher.), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Senior User Experience Researcher in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Senior User Experience Researcher?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration for Research. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Senior User Experience Researcher, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 5 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Senior User Experience Researcher: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan built for a customer support lead, five Ofqual-regulated units and a hundred and ninety-six credits. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Research and Development

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop as a Senior UX Researcher in R&D are highly transferable across various industries, especially those with complex products or services (e.g., MedTech, FinTech, Automotive, Enterprise Software). Your ability to uncover deep user needs and translate them into actionable insights is valuable everywhere.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Senior User Experience Researcher

What's rising in its place

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration for Research

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

From UX Researcher (Level 002)

From Product Designer with Research Specialisation

From Data Analyst / Data Scientist (with Qualitative Focus)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Your journey here isn't just a job; it's a chance to build a meaningful career, constantly learning, growing, and making a real impact on the products we build and the lives of our users. We're excited to see where you take it.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Staff UX Researcher (Level 004)

Where AI is starting to help

Automated Transcription & Summarisation

Thematic Analysis Acceleration

Research Plan & Script Generation

First-Draft Reporting & Synthesis

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.