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2024-53374 -

Senior XD Researcher

Location(s): Mountain View, California; San Diego, California
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

At Intuit, our mission is powering prosperity around the world. Every day we innovate with our flagship products - TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma. No matter your financial need, we have a solution that can help. Whether you’re a consumer, self-employed, or a small business owner, we’re in your corner to help make your dreams of prosperity come true through technology that touches the lives of almost 50 million people.

Come join Intuit as a Senior Design Researcher on the Core Platform Experiences team, as we help shape the direction of platform experiences across Intuit. You’ll enable our customers to access, manage and connect their accounts and data, while seamlessly navigating throughout the ecosystem.

This design research role is available in either the Bay Area, CA (Mountain View office) or San Diego, CA and requires hybrid-in-person work or being in the office 2 days per week.

We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about design research, a collaborative team player, creative problem solver, strong communicator, and a constant advocate for the customer.

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of user research best practices and expertise in a broad range of methods including: interview, contextual inquiry, usability, competitive analysis, survey, and behavioral/clickstream analysis.
  • Skilled moderator who can get to the root cause of issues and understand customer’s mental models through deep inquiry. Able to effectively adapt and work off script to explore the most meaningful information.
  • Able to analyze and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information, triangulate data across multiple studies and present actionable insights and recommendations to the stakeholders.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills to tell a clear, concise and well-organized story of the research bringing the insights to life.
  • Strong leadership qualities that enable you to influence and lead cross-functional teams and third-party partners in research activities.
  • Organized, self-directed, and efficient, with the ability to plan and execute on long-term research and manage multiple complex projects in a timely manner.
  • Portfolio that includes examples of leading strategic research with significant business outcomes.
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent real-world experience
  • At least five years of industry experience as a hands-on design researcher in a professional environment
  • Design thinking expertise, workshop planning, and facilitation experience expertise is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Accelerate game-changing design by leading strategic research that provides actionable insights around emerging technologies. Help cross-functional teams apply those insights to create delightful, innovative offerings.
  • Effectively support cross-functional partners on the most strategic initiatives that have the largest business and customer impact.
  • Plan and conduct all phases of research, utilizing a wide variety of methodologies, to help teams better understand the needs of the customer and identify the biggest opportunities to pursue.
  • Guide product managers and designers in refining their questions and assumptions into clear research goals and learning plans and providing strong research expertise to ensure we are asking and answering the most strategic questions.
  • Educate product teams on quality research and scale community knowledge around research methods and practices.
  • Bring a holistic end-to-end customer perspective to influence stakeholders and cross-functional teams and advocate for customer needs and connect learnings from across the Intuit ecosystem to ensure seamless, delightful customer experiences.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Bay Area California $1485000-201000, Southern California $136000-184000. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
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"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
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Conrad Intuit employee
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
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Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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Natalie Intuit employee
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
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Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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"By feeding our customers' data through machine learning algorithms, we uncover valuable insights that empower millions of customers to feel more confident about their financial future."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
Troy at work
Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
Emily at work
Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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"One of my favorite aspects of this role is that my work is helping small business owners achieve their business goals by solving complex financial problems. It's gratifying to know that the work that I'm doing directly impacts consumers and makes their lives easier so that they can focus their energy on growing their business."
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Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."

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