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"I was a Lead UXR at a startup, now I'm a Researcher III at BigTechCo." 😥 "How is it that someone with only one year of product research experience (and 8 years of academic experience) has a Senior Researcher title?" 🤔 "What's up with those weird "VP of UXR" titles in the banking sector?" 🧐 A lack of standardized definitions for UX research roles and levels across companies presents a challenge for job searches, hiring, promotions, and career planning. In my latest podcast episode, I talk with researchers-of-researchers and co-founding principals of Drill Bit Labs, Lawton Pybus and Thomas Stokes, about their research on the state of UXR job leveling, qualifications, responsibilities, and compensation for IC and manager roles. Join us for a fun discussion of what they learned and actionable recommendations for how you use their new data-driven leveling framework to design a more effective and efficient job search, hiring process, team leveling infrastructure, and UXR career plan. Come for the insights, stay for the research nerdery. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you love the show, please let us know with a rating/review! https://lnkd.in/gw94SNuU
Making Sense of UX Research Job Leveling with Lawton Pybus & Thomas Stokes | What is Wrong with Hiring
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Rebecca T.
6mo
Samesies for UX content roles. Too many entry level jobs are advertised as 'Senior Writer / Content Designer / Etc.' With all due respect to my younger colleagues, people who are new to the job are *not* senior.
Beth Leber
6mo
Ooh, this sounds good. Looking forward to nerdimg out!
Aditya P.
6mo
Thank you for pointing this out! As someone who very much aspires to transition into a full-fledged user research role, this is important. I look at job descriptions for senior research roles. Given my decade and a half experience as a research generalist, my definition of "senior" is someone with at least a decade/close to a decade worth of experience. Contrarily, I find the requirement to be 1-3 years but the expectation is to be an "expert" in skills. This is a clear mismatch - How does one become a senior, seasoned, expert researcher in such a short amount of time? To be honest, when I see a job description for a "senior" researcher with an entry-level experience requirement, I honestly feel that the job title is just a bait to attract candidates to the role and receive applications. Clearly, UXR is very chaotic and disorganized when it comes to expectations from talent.
Maya Ninova, PhD
6mo
A controversial but super important topic to address! When I transitioned from academia into industry, I went for UXR as I clearly identified the sector as an applied research area for social scientists. I had zero doubts about it as the connection was obvious. I am not saying that nobody else can work in it but specialization should be recognised somehow as it is not the same to spend years in universities learning about humans and how to research them, as attending a 6 months online bootcamp and pretend having the same knowledge. Seniority should come with a combination of education and experience, and the higher the education the more senior from start should be the person simply because to know the how always gives you advantage. If you know how to conduct research you won't care if the product is a spoon, public transport or a banking app. Research methods are the same, the research process to follow is also the same, nothing extraordinary per sector. The so-called UXR methods are social scientific research methods. I am really bothered by the constant refusal to acknowledge social scientists as experts in human behavior being this the obvious starting point for any definition of roles in this space.
Lisa Ramos
6mo
I'm currently studying UX research right now.
I genuinely wish an org like #HFES, #UXPA, #CHI, #CIHFE or all of the above would create standard definitions with job descriptions and everyone would push companies to use them.
Lawton Pybus
6mo
Very nerdy, very fun conversation. Thanks again for having us on the show, Amy Santee!
Career Strategist & Coach for UX Professionals | Writer, Speaker, & Podcaster | Personal Growth Nerd | Anti-Capitalist | Radically Inspired by People
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