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User Experience

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We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM.

Role Description
We are seeking a Principal User Researcher who can distill sophisticated problems into insights that inform product, design, development and business decisions. You eagerly seek out and triangulate data from diverse sources. You eagerly use new research methods to get at the heart of the issue, and you have expertise with the ‘tried and true’ ones. You’re passionate about technology and even more passionate about people. You have deep empathy for their everyday struggles and challenges. You always put their needs first and are unwavering in your desire to provide the best experiences for users.

Sound like you? Then you're someone we want to work with. Join our amazing team and you'll get to work with some of the most creative. You'll find startup-like scrum teams, consumer-style innovation, and the opportunity to deliver great experiences to millions of end-users.

Your Impact
Provide strategic and tactical insights to inform product adoption work for our Platform Research & Insights team.
Own and manage evaluative research processes, e.g., concept evaluation and design testing, across the Platform Cloud business and provide insights that help make Platform products easier for our customers to use.
Work with partners, including key executives, to create compelling narratives for how we can make Platform Cloud products easier to use and adopt.
Partner and closely with a wide range of product, design, marketing, and engineering teams across Platform Cloud to drive research impact.
Directly address the most pressing issues of our customers (aka., True to the Core) and identify areas where the future state of Salesforce is realized.

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of experience conducting research in user experience, product design, or technology contexts
• Expert understanding of research methods (qualitative and quantitative) and standard processes, and familiarity with a broad range of user research tools
• Proven track record influencing product direction and strategy with actionable insights
• Ability to plan, design, implement and communicate both strategic and tactical research engagements
• Ability to structure and lead internal and external workshops or design studios and analyze the outcomes to provide insight for partners
• Experience working in cross-functional teams (e.g. design, product management, engineering, marketing)
• Experience with AI, business software, solutions, technology
• Familiarity with basic statistical methods and concepts
• Excellent project management, communication, storytelling, and presentation skills

Bonus:

• Previous research experience in technology, SaaS, or Customer Service domains
• Experience doing research on Ai product teams and have an eye for how it could make everyday experiences efficient.
• Salesforce Administrator Certified & deep knowledge of the Salesforce Platform

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