Senior Design Researcher

4 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Australia Post Full time

Help us deliver like never before  

We’re looking for a Senior Design Researcher to join our diverse, talented and innovative digital technology team who together are helping our customers and communities build a better future. Together, we design, build and maintain products, services and experiences that Australian's love and trust, while delivering a sustainable future for Australia Post, and you could be part of that.

We're empowered to deliver for our teams and to delight our customers. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment that nurtures talented people, trusts our teams to deliver their best, and leverages modern work practices and technologies. It's an unexpectedly dynamic and collaborative culture that feels more like a start-up than a 213-year old icon.  

What you’ll deliver with us 

Based in the Research and Service Design team, our purpose is to deeply understand people to inform and help the design of accessible, sustainable and seamless products, services and experiences for Australia Post customers. Working closely with engineering, product and program teams we bring the human insights to all we do, envisioning how our users experience our products and services.

The Senior Design Researcher works with the Lead Design Researcher in driving understanding and empathy around user needs, stated and unstated, for projects and program teams. To do this, you’ll be required to provide strong leadership around Design Research methodologies and challenge your extensive research toolkit to conduct primary research, exploring the behaviours and motivations of our users through all types of qual and quant methodologies.

You’ll also   

  • Drive and manage research activities for our partners in product, platform and enterprise, including research planning, research roadmap, methodology and recruitment process for assigned projects.
  • Provide research leadership and influence to ensure the customer is represented when balancing experience (desirable), business (viable), and engineering (feasible) needs within a project.
  • Drive the delivery of user experience research methodologies and synthesis.
  • Contribute to research strategy, planning and vision to drive continuous improvement.
  • Advocate and apply UX success metrics, both quantitative and qualitative
  • Work closely with data and analytics team to identify opportunities.
  • Effectively influence and communicate research findings both verbally and visually to different audiences.
  • Be a champion for and uphold research craft standards and continually strive to exceed customer expectations.
  • Actively contribute to weekly team ceremonies, meetings and presentations on research
  • Push creativity, challenge established thinking and processes, and discover new ways of approaching (and solving) a problem. 

You’ll need   

  • At least 4+ years’ experience in a related role with demonstrable portfolio of work.
  • Background on design thinking methodologies, including facilitating workshops with stakeholders and/or customers and using various ideation techniques.
  • Applied experience: moderated and unmoderated testing remote testing, a range of fidelity prototype testing, concept testing, contextual inquiry, survey design, competitive and comparative analysis, and other research methods across variety of devices.
  • Experience in understanding customer needs, motivations and behaviours and translating them into insights and opportunities.
  • Good attention to detail and highly developed organisational skills including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet ambitious deadlines while maintaining high quality craft execution.
  • Understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase.
  • An understanding of the digital development process and software development methodologies, including Agile and Lean.
  • A grasp of quantitative data analysis and statistics.
  • Analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
  • Good interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills.
  • Empathy for the customer with the enthusiasm to create progressive experiences.

*Please note: Our Melbourne Support Office is relocating to 480 Swan Street, Richmond from June 2024. The custom-built space and its new workstations, social spaces, technology, other inclusions and amenities gives us the opportunity to support your ever-evolving ways of working.

Some things you’ll love about our new Melbourne Support Office:

  • The variety of workstation types created to help facilitate collaboration and individual work.
  • Technology enabled for hybrid working to support our people do their best work.
  • Our social spaces including wellness zone, communal lunch room, terraces and satellite café.
  • Our partnership with STREAT for our ground-floor café.
  • Carpark and end of trip facilities with lockers, bike parking, repair stations, showers and beauty services.
  • How we’ve embedded sustainability into our move and across the new development.
  • Our acknowledgement and celebration of indigenous culture in our new space.
  • Our new neighbourhood boasting nearby cafes, lunch-spots, parks, childcare and medical services.

We’re delivering together 

At Australia Post, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate, live and gather as employees. 

We believe our business should reflect the diverse communities we operate in and are proud to be an inclusive workplace for people from all walks of life. We encourage applications from people of all ages, genders and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, People with Disability, LGBTQIA+ and Refugees. We are one of the largest organisations in Australia to successfully achieve Disability Confident Recruiter status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process and workplace for those living with a disability and are committed to reviewing and removing bias in our processes to create a gender-equitable recruitment experience and workplace.  If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact our Diversity & Inclusion team on inclusivecareers@auspost.com.au

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