UX Researcher - Berlin or Remote

We’re hiring a UX Researcher to help shape the future of mobility at FREE NOW. We are aiming to build a sustainable mobility experience for all of our customers, integrating multiple services onto our platform, so they have tons of choice when it comes to getting around their cities. You will partner with some of our cross-functional teams to lead research efforts on specific topics in this role. You'll be working in an environment that truly understands the value of providing a good experience, and your research will directly impact how we build our products.

As the UX Research team, we seek to improve product value throughout the entire customer experience by understanding the ‘how and why’ of people’s movement. To do this, we provide research insights at every stage of the product life cycle and collaborate with stakeholders across the business.    

If you are passionate about the craft and process of building world-class products, you love helping your peers to grow, and you’d geek out on solving real problems for our customers, you’ll fit right in.

This role will work exclusively on the FREE NOW product offering.

Location

If you’d like to, you can work completely remotely (regardless of the COVID-19 situation). We also have offices for our product teams in Hamburg, Berlin & Barcelona, so whether you thrive when surrounded by your peers, or you do your best work home alone, with a pet on your knee, we’ve got you covered. We’d love to hire absolutely everywhere, but right now, we have a few restrictions on where you can be based and the time zone we’d like you to work to, based on where the majority of the team is based. You would be working closely with our teams in Hamburg & Berlin, so we would need you to be able to work from one of the 11 countries where we have a legal entity**

Your responsibilities

Liked what you’ve read so far? Here’s the nitty-gritty of what you’ll get up to if you’re successful...

• Gathering and prioritising key questions from product, design, engineering, and operation teams and developing hypotheses examining customers’ behaviours, needs, and attitudes.
• Planning and conducting studies using a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative UX research methods, including surveys, interviews, diary studies and usability studies.
• Working closely with your UX Research team in our offices in Berlin, Hamburg and Barcelona to create a global, shared understanding. 
• Identifying the why of what we observe, synthesising findings and utilising results from Usage Data and User Surveys. Communicating research results to the appropriate stakeholders in an engaging and actionable manner to amplify their impact on our products.
• Evangelising tools and best practices to empower product managers, designers and developers to conduct research and mentoring or coaching other user researchers.

Your profile 

We’re open to seeing people with all sorts of experience, but you’ll need to have the following to reach the interview stage with us…

• 3+ years of experience in a UX research role.
• Experience testing mobile apps and web products, we’ll need you to understand what it takes to deliver a highly local product in European markets.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.
• Experience managing projects involving cross-functional teams.
• We’ll need you to be comfortable planning, scoping, conducting, analysing and communicating research.
• You’ll need the ability to think big and understand complex feature sets.
• You’ll also need to be a strong storyteller and communicator, able to speak fluently and confidently to people at every level of our business.

These things aren’t mandatory, but will put you higher up the CV pile ?...

• A sense of humour and a ‘glass half full’ attitude 
• The ability to thrive and find order in ambiguity 
• A strong GIF or emoji game 
• An additional European language

** legal entities: France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Italy, England, Ireland, Poland, Romania & Greece 

Diversity and inclusion:

At FREE NOW, we commit to being an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We celebrate diversity and have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work. Together with passionate, creative and collaborative colleagues, we are following our purpose of making mobility available for everyone.

Move like you

At FREE NOW we have colleagues from over 70 nations! We value open communication and welcome everyone as they are. We are all one team and follow the same goals – that’s why we share our insights and results to get on track together every month. 

Your wellness and work-life balance matters to us. We offer trust-based and flexible working hours as well as the option to work from home. In the office, you can enjoy our free drinks and daily fresh fruit. Do you like to be active? Take part in our subsidised gym membership. Bigger plans? Take a sabbatical leave and get out there!

Let’s grow together! We believe in a transparent career growth plan, quarterly development sessions with your team lead as well as regular 1:1s to help you thrive! For your own ideas, you’re welcome to set up initiatives and projects.

Need a lift? We offer Udemy e-learning platform, subsidised language classes, internal peer-to-peer trainings and more to support your learning & development opportunities.

More Benefits? ? Monthly mobility budget for FREE NOW rides, quarterly team events, company-wide onboarding days at our HQ in Hamburg, relocation assistance for internationals, birthday-off, kudos and many more!

About FREE NOW:

FREE NOW is Europe’s leading multi-mobility platform backed by BMW Group and Daimler AG. Next to ride hailing, FREE NOW also offers micro-mobility services such as e-scooters, e-bikes, e-vespas as well as car sharing. It consists of the services FREE NOW (10 European markets) and Βeat (5 Latin American and 1 European market). Summed up, those services currently attract 50 million users in 16 markets and more than 150 cities. FREE NOW is therefore the biggest multi-service mobility provider in Europe and the fastest-growing ride-hailer in Latin America. FREE NOW works with various third party providers to offer their customers an even wider range of options to get from A to B. In total, around 1,900 employees in around 35 offices work for the services of FREE NOW, which is led by CEO Marc Berg.