Niantic's mission is to use emerging technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. We build games that encourage movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction. We are seeking experienced User Experience Researchers to help craft the future of Niantic's games, and platform technology.

This is a contractor position and the work should be performed based on service agreement and SOW. Niantic will not offer Contractor direct employment contract, salary, benefits, equities, or any compensation associated with employment.

Responsibilities

• Apply a variety of methodologies including interviews, field studies, workshops, ethnography, and user testing, to conduct end-to-end user experience research with users across the globe, such as study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting.
• Apply appropriate analysis methods to turn the data captured into meaningful and concrete insights/recommendations for the team.
• Keep up with UX related standards, research methods, trends, and tools.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of comparable industry experience in UX Research, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Design, applied research, and/or product development and research is required
• Experience conducting studies using a range of techniques, including but not limited to interviews, focus groups, usability studies, and diary studies.
• Expertise in various qualitative analysis methodologies, such as content, thematic, and narrative analysis, interpretive phenomenological analysis, discourse analysis, and grounded theory.
• Proficiency in conveying findings from user research to cross-functional partners
• Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced and evolving team.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic is the world's leading AR technology company, sparking creative and engaging journeys in the real world. Our products encourage outdoor exploration, exercise, and meaningful social interaction.

Originally formed at Google in 2011, we became an independent company in 2015 with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. Our current consumer titles include pioneering global-control game Ingress, record-breaking AR game Pokémon GO, and Pikmin Bloom. In November 2021, we launched our developer platform, Lightship, enabling creators to build immersive AR experiences around the globe.

Niantic is an Equal Opportunity employer. We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

We are a hard-working, fun, and exciting group that values intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Los Angeles, New York, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, and Zurich. #LI-HYBRID