User Research Lead - Perigold

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Experience Design at Wayfair (Content Strategy, Product Design and User Research) is accountable for the cohesive vision for exceptional end-user experiences with a comprehensive view of a given end-user’s end-to-end journey across all touchpoints. 

User research is one of our best kept secrets. We are a world class and rapidly growing team that drives strategic business, design, and product impact at scale. We define and solve big ambiguous problems. Driving through discipline excellence our function has a voice and is respected throughout the company.  

Our open role(s) offer you an opportunity to turbocharge your research career in a high performing research environment. 

At Wayfair the research team is structured in a global operational model, which means that in joining us you have regular access to learning, feedback, and input from researchers leading tracks of work across a range of end users (agents, corporate employees, customers B2B + B2C, field workers and suppliers), geographies, and digital storefronts. 

User researchers at Wayfair are leaders, storytellers, and courageous trail blazers who leverage the full range of methods and techniques to deliver a nuanced understanding of the end-user and their needs. Self-starters in nature, they thrive in fast paced, fluid environments that allow team members to leverage their strengths and passions to influence what we do and how we do it.  

Whether you prefer to lead research projects, individuals, and/or teams, at Wayfair we have a professional growth path and career track that allows you to plan for and pursue your aspirations.  

Responsibilities:

Perigold’s goal is to reveal an undiscovered world of luxury by building a luxury house of design brands across all styles and spaces. Our long-term vision is to become the global leader in luxury home - we'll be the destination for the luxury customer anywhere to discover, be inspired by, and fall in love with the best design brands, with an experience that is personal and memorable.  Core to our brand DNA are the beliefs that: beautiful things made with intention are always worth it, sophistication is not an excuse for snobbery, insider access should not be out of reach, and change requires bold, unapologetic action.  

 

As the User Research Lead, you’ll support a product domain spanning 4-6 scrum teams, developing and executing a research roadmap aligned to the highest strategic priorities. You’ll define, scope, and execute the full path to achieve objectives and determine the appropriate strategy and project plans in the medium term (~<6 months). You’ll influence cross functional leaders and more senior partners through strategic thought partnership and insights.

Skills: 

  • Work with business, product, and design teams on web and mobile products,
  • Influence a diverse set of stakeholders through excellent relationship building, and providing insight and domain expertise in research practices and product strategy and development
  • Lead with a voice and informed perspective. Embodies a research specialist and thought partner 
  • Participate in research initiatives across multiple workgroups, coordinating efforts to achieve unified strategy and solutions for touchpoints across the end user’s journey
  • Apply knowledge and craft expertise in conducting foundational, formative, and evaluative research
  • Lead generative research to define problem spaces and identify opportunity areas
  • Lead evaluative research to optimize planned and existing technology solutions
  • Use a range of qualitative and quantitative methods such as: contextual interviews, field research, surveys, diary studies, focus groups, or concept, remote and usability testing.
  • Using artifacts, prototypes, and other stimuli to gather feedback from, and learn about, users
  • Communicate research findings and prioritized recommendations to internal stakeholders in a clear and compelling way
  • Contribute to and build internal body of end user knowledge
  • Leverage and contribute to research best practices

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.