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User Researcher

Are you passionate about games, research, and how to best combine the two? Then come join the User Research team at Paradox interactive and help us make our games better! Paradox’s User Research team does user experience research for all our products, both developed and published by Paradox. As a User Researcher, you will be responsible for conducting a variety of research activities.

Your research will support the decision-making of game developers as well as game marketers. Your work will be critical in helping us understand the needs and behaviours of our users. You will also get to take an active role in developing our methodology, testing environment, and help us build one of the best User Research teams in the industry. Our current UR team consists of seven researchers.

Responsibilities
● Conduct user research on a variety of Paradox games and products
● Create research plans together with the development teams
● Choose the methods that will help game teams the most - user studies, focus groups, surveys, user review analyses, etc.
● Collaborate with other user researchers to iteratively improve our processes for collecting, analyzing and presenting research data
● Communicate actionable insights to game teams and other stakeholders at Paradox Interactive

Requirements
● Experience with user research, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, or equivalent
● Experience with a wide range of qualitative research methodologies such as usability studies, interviews, survey design etc.
● Experience with game development or other interactive media fields
● Excellent written and spoken communication skills (English)
● Comfortable coordinating clients, other researchers, and participants simultaneously when conducting research

Additional Qualifications
● 2-3 years relevant experience in games industry
● Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Sociology, or related fields
● Strong personal interest in gaming and market trends
● An understanding and familiarity with lab maintenance
● Experience in Quantitative Research
● Planning and management skills are considered an advantage

On a personal level you’re passionate about helping others succeed. You find communication with people of different professions (game design, production, marketing) inspiring and you have a strong sense of self-leadership. You enjoy the balancing act between conducting sound research and delivering objective, actionable results with tight time-frames, and don’t mind challenging established views.

Practical information
Scope: Full time and permanent
Reports to: User Research manager
Location: This position is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Some of our benefits include:

If you think that this description matches you, we highly encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will interview candidates continuously. If you don't match all the requirements, please demonstrate how your passion, attitude and interest in Paradox might compensate for this.

At Paradox Interactive we celebrate difference and care deeply about diversity and inclusion. We therefore encourage you, no matter who you are, to apply for this job if you think you’d be a great addition to our team.