Senior Design Manager - Hyderabad @ Microsoft

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of researchers in the sales/Field vertical who conducts diverse product research activities spanning generative to evaluative; foster and facilitate agile research practices and methodologies
• Influential UX researcher with experience managing multiple projects, and delivering a strategic research plan/priorities for those areas
• Partnering closely with key stakeholders across Engineering, Design, Business Partners and Leadership to establish trust, and alignment for maximum research influence
• Deep hands on analytical and synthesis skills (both qualitative and quantitative) with a proven ability to turn research results into product insights
• Establish a process for tracking and measuring in product sentiment feedback
• Transform the vision for this team into practice with concrete processes, activities and accountabilities
• By partnering with other Research Leads, continue to enhance the team s ability to plan, execute, analyze and synthesize research
• Understand complex business and enterprise spaces and deliver clear, and lead a team of researchers to deliver strategic impact to product
• Provide mentorship and career growth to a diverse set of multi-disciplinary User Researchers
• Contribute to the formation of the research culture and newly formed team