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Jobs and Internships & Two Special Hiring Managers

michele ronsen

I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working and collaborating with some spectacular people in our industry and some of them are hiring now.

Let me introduce you.

Tatiana Vlahovic

Fun facts >> I sketched out the idea for Curiosity Tank with Tati when she worked at Reduct.video in May 2019! She co-organized our first ever Curiosity Tank event focused on transitioning into applied research from academia called “Panel Discussion: What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Career in User Research” (but really it’s terrific for anyone looking to get into the field or beef up their UXR job search, and comes with six pages of resources). Reduct.video was also our first-ever project sponsor, and they are returning to sponsor additional projects this cohort! So many ties here. I adore Tati and she is a terrific mentor too.

Now Tati is a Senior Product Research Manager at Credit Karma, and they have staff-level openings but will consider senior-level candidates, too. The Charlotte position is for Research Ops. Check 'em out!

Another fun fact >> We’ve had three Ask Like A Pro® students from Credit Karma! Feel free to email Tati directly about any of these Credit Karma positions.

Paul Derby is a UX Research Manager at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Fun facts >> Paul and I crossed many paths teaching at the Academy of Art University, working at Facebook, and sharing many many connections. But we had not actually “met” until we started to plan the panel discussion mentioned above. He is one of the panelists. Tati introduced me to Paul! This panel collaboration eventually grew to include Paul and me piloting the Curiosity Tank apprenticeship program together in 2020! Whoa, boy did we learn a lot!

Paul is an incredible coach and mentor for UX Researchers, and CZI does outstanding work for good! There are three open research positions at CZI. While they are not on Paul’s team directly, they are in CZI’s Science and Education Initiatives, they look pretty great nonetheless.

Another fun fact >> We’ve had two Ask Like A Pro students from CZI, and one is returning this cohort for another round as well.

In other exciting user research job related news:

  1. TikTok announced two new opportunities for “earlier-career researchers.” The first is for a UX Research Associate and the second is for a summer 2022 PhD intern.

  2. Applications for LinkedIn’s User Experience Research Internships are now open, too!

  3. Slack (my research former team and now a part of Salesforce) opened up their search for Summer 2022 Future Forum PhD Research Interns.

  4. Coinbase is looking for a remote User Research Intern, too.

  5. eBay is looking for Design Research Summer Interns, too. See a pattern here? LOL

  6. Indeed.com has summer UX Research internships in the US and in Japan.

  7. Lowe's is also hiring at least one User Experience Research intern on the customer-facing side this summer. “We love those Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology majors.”

  8. Duolingo announced their UX Research Intern (Pittsburg) opening, a Lead Growth UX Researcher position and an Associate UX Research position. The last two are located in either Pittsburg or NYC.

  9. Pinterest Research is growing, too! They’re seeking “newer in career qualitative researchers” to join their Shopping Research team for a 12-month contract and to add contract “product researchers with experience in the ads space — ideally with a deep qualitative tool kit.”

  10. Buildium has a Remote UX Research internship opening.

  11. Best Buy has four open positions for contract researchers. They are 6+ months with “tons of opportunity to extend.”

  12. Rocket is hiring a remote UX Researcher.

  13. Chime has five open research positions. WHOA?!

  14. Airtable is looking for a UX Researcher, a Market Researcher, and a Research Manager.

  15. Amazon has DOZENS of open positions in Seattle, Berlin, Bangalore, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, Washington, D.C., the Bay Area, remote and other locations. Learn more here.

  16. And … the UXPA International mentorship program is back!

Joel Barr also created a list called "Who in UX is still looking for a job?" Feel free to add yourself to his list.

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- Michele and the Curiosity Tank team

PS: We’re only offering two public Ask Like A Pro cohorts this year, and the next one starts in March! If you’re ready to register, click here to grab your spot! Need a little more info? Join our live info session with Alumni on March 15th at 5 pm PT to learn more.