Microsoft SharePoint is seeking a Senior UX Researcher with who can drive human-centered strategy, help set product direction, and contribute directly to ongoing product development by integrating insights about human behaviors, attitudes, practices, and norms. In this role, you will leverage your skills in evaluative and foundational research to guide near and long-term product strategy. You will work closely with UX designers, product managers, engineering, data science, and engineering to ensure that we are addressing the most critical user needs and opportunities.   

We are especially enthusiastic about candidates who are AI skilled and curious, want to learn, grow, and embody new ways of working. If you embrace growth mindset, have a record of accomplishment of delivering results, and you light up collaborating with other researchers, designers, product managers and engineers this is an awesome team to join.  

The ideal candidate prioritizes customer needs while solving complex problems that empower our users to be more productive, efficient, and successful. Our diverse research team works on products like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, and Mesh, offering an environment for professional growth. This role is an opportunity to impact a wide audience as we as we innovate SharePoint for the era of AI and beyond, collaborating across Microsoft to address real customer challenges with empathy and expertise.

We are part of the CxD organization which is a diverse team of UX Researchers, Designers, Producers, Content Writers, Creatives, and UX Engineers who partner closely across disciplines, such as Product Management, Data Science, Engineering, and Marketing. The CxD Research team is known for research excellence, collaboration, and our supportive culture. We have a proven track record of delivering business results with key metrics to track our successes and failures

We are a high-performing team that challenges ourselves to live the Microsoft philosophies around inclusive culture and growth mindset. Local mentoring rings and communities allow us to learn from each other and grow. We focus on having inclusive interactions that foster productive dialog. We are dedicated to the work of creating an inclusive, and transparent culture – a safe place to do our best work!

We’d love to talk to you if: 

You’re passionate about applying human-centered design thinking and advocating for strategic and foundational research to identify big picture problems.You’re skilled in both qualitative and quantitative methods and have end-to-end experience with all aspects of research (study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting).You’re a detail-obsessed and highly organized person when it comes to designing user research studies and do not lose sight of the big picture when synthesizing meaningful insights that drive innovative design.You’re a great storyteller; able to confidently and creatively communicate research insights in ways that influence product and design decisions at multiple levels of leadership.You have experience collaborating with design, product management, data science, marketing, and engineering teams around the company and globe, leveraging partnerships for diverse perspective on our products.You have experience contributing to broaden multi-discipline team’s creative processes, team building, and our cultural values around diversity, inclusion, transparency, and growth mindset.You have experience contributing to the learning and growth of the broader research team.You have experience learning and understanding about diverse audiences, their behaviors, context(s) and motivations – across all phases of the customer lifecycle and user journey.You can demonstrate empathy for users while balancing the vision and constraints of stakeholders.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.