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Senior User Researcher

Senior User Researcher

Riot GamesShanghai, China
30+ days ago
Job description

Responsibilities :

  • Drive user research efforts on game teams in partnership with production & design
  • Leadership on high complexity, ambiguous problem spaces to help direct the experience of our new games, systems, and features.
  • Contribute at the China studio level on strategy and operations as part of the China studio insight team
  • Construct and perform labs, studies, and surveys - sometimes with novel or complex methodologies - designed to answer business, design, development, and usability questions
  • Share the results with game and China studio leadership in clear, illustrative presentations that drive meaningful change
  • Mentor other researchers, helping them learn from your experiences

Required Qualifications :

  • Education background in ONE of the following categories :
  • Advanced degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Human Factors or a related discipline plus 2 years of relevant research experience in game development
  • Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline plus 4 years of relevant research experience in game development
  • Experience running playtest and usability tests in a variety of paradigms, including and not limited to moderated testing, unmoderated testing, focused feature-specific testing, holistic and longitudinal testing, and more complex or constrained testing paradigms
  • Trusted to operate independently regardless of structure, owns larger problems / projects / workstreams
  • Ability to work collaboratively with others
  • Familiarity with qualitative methods and analysis
  • Experience synthesizing and presenting data for maximum impact and understanding
  • Experience designing and performing basic survey research
  • Desired Qualifications :

  • Experience conducting games user research during the early stages of the development life cycle particularly incubation, prototype, and pre-production
  • Familiarity with audience research including methods for identification and definition
  • Familiarity with basic statistical methods for data analysis (regressions, correlations,
  • factor analyses)
  • Experience leading complex projects with multiple collaborators and work streams
  • Experience managing vendors
  • Experience working with leadership at the “team of teams” level on strategic and operational problems
  • Fluent in Chinese and English, and can promote collaboration across different languages and cultures