Junior UX researcher

About us:

At Ankorstore, we believe that local independent retailers have a great impact on the souls of our cities and villages, and we believe that local retailers will flourish even more if they are provided with great tools and exceptional shopping conditions. With this in mind, we are building the largest marketplace that connects authentic European brands with thousands of independent retailers. We are extremely proud to be able to support these amazing entrepreneurs every day. 

Ankorstore was founded in 2019 and has recently closed a $100 million Series B funding. We already have over 450 employees, already present in 28 countries and want to continue to scale strongly.

About the role:

The product team is expanding and needs experienced designers. Our production ambitions for 2022 and the next years are thrilling.

You will be part of our Product Design group in a creative and a collaborative environment dedicated to design and user experience within the Product team. Your role will be to facilitate user research within the product team.

Thanks to Ankorstore's success and the growth of the company, we are strengthening our product design team combining various expertise.

If you are curious about understanding the retail world and advancing our research practices internationally to make better decisions, you will love working within our product team where there is still a lot to build.

If you want your work to have an impact, you'll embrace our mission to Promote the development and growth of local and authentic retailers and help European brands expand their customer base

Your missions: 

• Transform Product stakes and objectives in user research studies.
• Help Product team to set-up study protocol, run the study, analysis and UX recommendations.
• Participate in the evolution of UX research methods
• Share your expertise across the team to help develop the UX knowledge throughout the company.
  
  

The experience we require:

• At least 1 years experience in hands-on user researcher in fast-paced environments, in a creative agency or consumer-driven business
• You have a broad knowledge of qualitative research methods as well as a range of research tools and platforms
• Evolve within a scalable organization based on autonomy.
• Choose your working environment and where you want to work, anywhere in Europe!
• Make decisions about your own area of expertise and be encouraged to experiment.
• You are fluent in English, our working language at Ankorstore, and have no problem interviewing users from all over the world
• You are a team player - you always demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude and want to work in a team
• You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Flexibility is key to your role and to the design team in general.
• Creativity & proactivity - you can find creative and simple solutions to tricky problems, using new approaches, tools and/or testing new ways of leveraging data

Other qualities that would add value:

• Entrepreneurial experience.
• Experience working with small retailers or brands.
• German, Dutch or Spanish is a plus.

Benefits & location:

• Working with a very ambitious & mission driven team backed by powerful VCs (Index Ventures, GFC, Alven, Aglae, Bain Capital Ventures, Tiger Global)
• Location can be based in Paris or in our of our hub (London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm). You will only be expected to visit the HQ in Paris regularly. 
• Competitive package.