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Director, User Insights

244k – 244kUnited StatesRemote15+ YOE
Summary

Leads User Insights team to conduct qualitative/quantitative research informing product decisions. Requires 15+ years experience, 4+ in senior leadership, deep stats expertise, and AI tool proficiency at consumer tech company.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead a group of researchers embedded across product areas, turning user behavior and feedback into shipped decisions.
  • Set strategic direction for how research connects to product decisions company-wide.
  • Ensure team works on high-impact projects and insights drive outcomes.
  • Partner with product, data science, and leadership to deliver research at key moments.

Requirements

  • 15+ years professional experience, including 4+ years in senior leadership (Director, Head, VP) in user insights/research.
  • Deep expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods: conjoint, MaxDiff, discrete choice, regression, multivariate analysis, moderated/unmoderated testing, diary studies, metric framework development.
  • Build measurement approaches from first principles for ambiguous product questions.
  • Experience at consumer-facing tech company with US userbase, across multiple product surfaces.
  • Background in A/B experiment-heavy environments with integrated research.
  • Track record developing researchers in methodology, framing, stakeholder communication.
  • Represent research strategy to leadership in business outcome terms.
  • Experience in resource-constrained orgs prioritizing sequencing.
  • Willingness to use AI and build AI-accelerated workflows.

Compensation

$243,800 USD annually and stock options. Compensation identical within levels regardless of location.

Skills
conjointMaxDiffdiscrete choiceregressionmultivariate analysismoderated testingunmoderated testingdiary studiesmetric framework developmentA/B experimentsAI workflows
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