User Researcher (Contract)

Fitbod is seeking a part-time (~10 hours/week) User Researcher to help deepen our understanding of the unique needs of customers, and help in developing a product that better supports an active and healthy lifestyle.

This role will work closely with the product development team to design, conduct, and synthesize user research studies.

Our generative user research process consists qualitative interviews with our users. A common goal of this research is to identify a common problem-solution gap among participants that resulted in user's disengaging with our product.

Our evaluative research consists of quick, iterative concept and usability tests with mock ups, prototypes and app builds. We also do concept tests in qualitative user interviews.

Study participants will be provided and are very actively engaged and excited to participate in our current research initiatives.

This role is expected to have an initial time commitment of 10 hours per week. We will reevaluate after a ramp-up period and assess how long a research study takes to formulate, execute and distill.

About this role

• Experience running generative and evaluative qualitative research to inform product direction, including user interviews.
• Understand the best practices of iterating an Ideal Customer Profile based on existing and new research findings.
• Conduct rapid and remote concept and usability tests with quick turnaround that allow our design team to quickly iterate on solutions
• Aggregate and summarize research data into clear and concise sharable insights.
• Utilize the prototype testing tool Maze.co (or equivalent to test Figma Prototypes) to conduct remote usability and concept testing
• Leverage UserInterviews.com for the management of study participants
• Familiarity with Figma.

Bonus if you have the following:

• Fitness-minded, practicing strength-trainer or posses knowledge about fitness and common needs and goals behind exercise.
• A passion for Fitness and helping people lead healthier, more active lives.

Fitbod's Mission

• Foster a more productive and functional populace through a global dedication to physical fitness.
• With over 300 million exercises logged, Fitbod boasts one of the largest and most comprehensive fitness data sets in the world. Powered by this data set, we’ve created a workout recommendation engine that builds completely unique and personalized workouts for hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers. Data-driven personalization enables our customers to exercise, on average 9 Workouts per Month, 55 Minutes each.✌️

To Apply

Please submit a portfolio of past research showing both primary and secondary research and the impact it had on the product.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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