Researcher
About the role
Your Role & Mission
At Apollo.io, we believe that our customers are our greatest advocates and inspiration, and we strive to humanize and build empathetically for their needs. As we scale our product, we are prioritizing improving ease of use, delightfulness, and overall user experience dimensions, and we're looking for a Researcher to play a key role in the upcoming phases of our journey.
As a Researcher, you will be integral to driving forward our customer-centric vision—partnering with stakeholders to run critical research projects while helping to grow our research team alongside our Product & Design orgs.
We're looking for someone who is both genuinely interested in & has the skills to take on ownership of complex projects within a hyper-growth company: a creative thinker who can trailblaze new approaches to interpreting data and drive meaningful impacts to our product & company strategy.
Responsibilities
- Conduct In-depth, Agile Research: Execute user research activities, including but not limited to foundational research, usability testing, interviews, surveys, and ethnographic studies, to gather valuable insights into user behaviors, needs, and preferences.
- Persona and Journey Map Development: Contribute to the creation and maintenance of user personas and journey maps, helping to establish a user-centric framework for product development.
- Iterative Testing and Feedback Loops: Work within the agile development process to integrate iterative testing and feedback loops, ensuring a user-centered approach throughout the product development life cycle.
- Usability Testing: Plan and facilitate usability testing sessions, including recruitment, script development, and post-session analysis. Communicate findings and recommendations to the broader team.
- Data Collection and Analysis: Collect and analyze user data, synthesizing findings into clear and actionable insights. Work with data sets to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities for product improvement.
- Documentation and Reporting: Prepare clear and concise research reports, presentations, and documentation to effectively communicate research findings and recommendations.