Senior User Researcher

About Outreach   Outreach, founded in 2014, is the only complete agentic AI platform for revenue teams. Outreach infuses agentic AI, conversation intelligence, and assistive AI to power hundreds of use cases across revenue motions. From new logo prospecting to expansions, deal acceleration, driving retention, and forecasting, Outreach AI automates workflows and frees sellers to focus on more strategic conversations and actions. Revenue leaders benefit from connected account visibility, performance insights, and higher forecasting accuracy across every GTM team. World leading enterprise organizations use Outreach to power their revenue teams, including Databricks, SAP, Siemens, and Verizon to name a few.  The Team Here at Outreach we are passionate about creating an amazing experience for our customers through our best-in-class communication platform. Outreach is the leader in the “Sales Engagement” industry, and much of that is due to our unyielding focus on our customer’s needs, motivations, and goals. We invest in our users by developing immersive experiences, providing incredible value, and creating deeply resonating value propositions.   Every day we create, innovate, and improve workflows for customer-facing sales representatives that provide value in their key workflows: calling, emailing, and calendaring. To get it right, we challenge our assumptions of what we understand, and work collaboratively to determine the best path to take. The role of the Senior User Researcher is critical to our continued effort to deliver quality experiences and innovate for the future. As a Senior User Researcher, you will be a key member of the UX team, working closely with Product Designers, User Researchers, Product Managers, Engineers, and other internal teams.   The Role  You are an experienced researcher with amazing people and communication skills. You are also a hustler, an ombudsman, a tactician, and an amazing teammate. You are ready to tackle complex problems in a space that is still being defined. You are willing to take the initiative - drive value, be the voice of the customer, make tradeoffs under tight deadlines, and be creative with your approach to user research. You hunt for truth, you triangulate, and move quickly, all while having the support of your colleagues and team. Your curiosity, humility, and empathy make you a key component to our customer obsessed mission. Bonus points: Sense of humor is greatly appreciated. :)   Your Daily Adventures Will Include:

Planning and conducting qualitative and quantitative research to better understand users’ needs, behaviors, motivations, and goals, in order to inform product and design decisions 

• Collaborating with product, engineering, and design teams to provide actionable insights and deliverables 

• Identifying and executing on high-impact projects, triaging requests, determining priority and delivering in time for results to be useful 

• Contributing your research and perspective throughout the entire product development cycle, from discovery and exploration, to launch and post-release 

• Creating research roadmaps and leading the execution of those roadmaps 

• Providing guidance to team members and partners on research best practices  

• Building and scaling research enablement resources (templates, guides, workflows) so teams can run studies efficiently and consistently  

• Support participant recruitment and management across internal SMEs and external customers  

• Partner cross-functionally with Customer Success and Support to coordinate access to customers and streamline research efforts 

Our Vision of You:

 7+ years of user research experience 

• Have a flexible, lean, creative, and pragmatic approach to user research 

• Experience integrating user research principles into product initiatives and UX design 

• Strong understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of research methods, including when and how to apply them during the product development cycle 

• Proven history of close work with Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to prioritize research projects 

• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly, succinctly, and persuasively across different audiences and various levels of the organization 

• End-to-end experience with all aspects of the research process (road mapping, study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting, communicating results and executive presentations) 

• Demonstrated record of influencing outcomes by delivering actionable research insights 

• Experience designing research for AI-driven products (e.g., copilots, agents, recommendation systems) 

• Ability to translate AI capabilities into user-facing implications and research questions  

• Familiarity with human-AI interaction patterns (assistive, autonomous, human-in-the-loop) 

• BS (or similar) degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

 Post-graduate degree in a design-related discipline 

• Experience in a SaaS organization 

• Experience working in a fast-paced software development environment 

• Finely tuned analytical skills, you can identify key actionable insights from a wealth of data 

• Experience with screening/recruiting project-appropriate participants and an appreciation for user research recruitment best practices 

• Experience using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methodologies 

Why You’ll Love It Here

● Highly competitive salary

● 25 days annual vacation time + sick time and casual leave

● Group medical policy coverage available to employees and up to 5 eligible family members

● OPD benefit covered up to INR 10,000

● Life insurance and personal accident insurance at 3x annual CTC

● 26 weeks of maternity leave pay, and 15 days of paternity leave pay

● Opportunity to be part of company success via the RSU program

● Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups like OWN+ (Outreach Women's Network), Adelante (Latinx community), OBX (Outreach Black Connection), Mosaic (AAPI community), Pride (LGBTQIA+), Gender+, Disability Community, and Veterans/Military 

● Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team

● Fun company and team outings because we play just as hard as we work

Outreach is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Our success is reliant on building teams that include people from different backgrounds and experiences who can elevate assumptions and ideas with fresh perspectives. We're dedicated to hiring the whole human, not just a resume. To that end, we look for a diverse pool of applicants-including those from historically marginalized groups. We would like to invite you to apply even if you don't think you meet all of the requirements listed below. We don't want a few lines in a job description to get between us and the opportunity to meet you.