UXR Research Leader [Growth Team]

6 Months ago • 18 Years + • Product Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Meta seeks a UX Research Leader for its Growth Team. This role involves managing a large research team, independently identifying and solving problems, setting team goals, and effectively communicating across organizational levels. Responsibilities include making staffing decisions, shaping team strategy, ensuring team quality through coaching and development, building a diverse and inclusive environment, and partnering with product stakeholders to deliver impactful research insights. The ideal candidate possesses exceptional research skills, understands the balance between scrappy approaches and rigorous methodology, and can translate research findings into actionable design and product decisions. The team uses various qualitative and quantitative methods, valuing diverse perspectives and backgrounds. The role requires significant experience in UX research, team management, and translating research into business impact.
Must have:
  • Manage large research teams
  • Solve problems independently
  • Set clear team goals & expectations
  • Effective cross-organizational communication
  • 18+ years post-Bachelor's research experience
  • 5+ years managing researchers
  • Experience across research methodologies
  • Translate research into business impact
Good to have:
  • Graduate degree
  • Consumer product/insights experience
  • 5+ years UX research experience
  • 1+ year managing managers

Job Details

Our UX Research team is designing for the global diversity of human needs, which requires us to deeply understand the behaviors of the people behind them. Facebook Inc. UX researchers tackle some of the most complex challenges to gain deeper insights into how people interact with each other and the world around them, and work collaboratively to contribute new ideas to products that impact the experiences of billions of people on a global scale. We employ a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to accomplish our goals, including surveys, focus groups, field studies, usability tests, and 1:1 interviews. We value a diverse range of perspectives and stem from many different backgrounds—geographically, culturally, educationally, philosophically. We come from industry and academia, with roots in anthropology, design research, economics, HCI, human factors, market research, political science, sociology, social computing, and social psychology, among others. Meta is looking for a UX Research Leader with research, and people management skills. Meta is a diverse set of products – it's ripe for research. But figuring out the right research, the appropriate involvement, and the ideal touch points is a delicate balance. What makes a good candidate? Someone who has exceptional research skills, but who also understands the balance between scrappy and rigor, and ultimately how research translates into design and product decisions. It's not enough to answer interesting questions about user behavior; our team focuses on impact. You will oversee a team of world-class researchers across a key product vertical, and across multiple research disciplines.
UXR Research Leader [Growth Team] Responsibilities
  • Responsibilities:
  • Manage a research team that is large in size and/or complexity.
  • Manage completely independently, including other managers.
  • Identify problems and provide solutions.
  • Set clear expectations and goals for individuals and the team.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively across all organizational levels.
  • Make staffing decisions based on business priorities, both short term and long term, as well as team strengths and motivation.
  • Adjust management style to effectively get the most out of each team member.
  • Shape team strategy, identifying risks and prioritizing opportunities.
  • Identify gaps and solutions for future growth and scale within the team or organization, including system, product, function, partnership and/or organization opportunities.
  • Responsible for the quality of the team, including coaching, growing IC's and managers (if applicable) and coaching under-performing team members.
  • Build a diverse and an inclusive environment across the team, model inclusive behaviors, and hold managers accountable.
  • Give clear, actionable feedback on a timely basis.
  • Partner with the recruiting organization to help deliver top talent.
  • Drive team execution, and process across the FB research community.
  • Become a trusted, strategic partner to product stakeholders by communicating and demonstrating the value of user research, and by delivering insights that lead to demonstrable business value.
  • Mentor other managers (research or cross functional) at their level or below, especially coaching first time managers and those managers new to Facebook Inc..
  • Have a point of view about strategic decisions, using insights from the team. Understand how to influence stakeholders and leaders to implement the best ideas.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree or significant experience conducting UX research with meaningful business impact
  • 18+ years of experience conducting and/or studying research post-Bachelor’s degree
  • 5+ years of experience directly managing, coaching and developing full-time researchers
  • Experience directly managing across different research methodologies
  • Experience directly conducting primary research (either qualitative or quantitative) end-to-end (i.e., designing, fielding, analyzing and reporting out data)
  • Experience building teams over time through hiring, growing, and retaining high-performing researchers
  • Experience building and setting research strategy that connects with business strategy
  • Track record of translating research into business impact
  • Experience working with a variety of cross functional peers and stakeholders (e.g., product managers, data scientists, designers, engineers, policy, communications, marketing)
Preferred Qualifications
  • Graduate degree
  • Experience with consumer products, consumer insights, or product development
  • 5+ years of UX research experience
  • 1+ years experience managing managers
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About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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