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The contract for this position is a Freelance contract

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The suggested salary for this position is $130,000-$150,000*

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UX Researcher (Freelance) job at Scaleway

Our mission 🚀

Founded in 1999, Scaleway, the cloud of choice, helps developers and businesses to build, deploy and scale applications to any infrastructure. Located in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw, Scaleway’s complete cloud ecosystem is used by 25,000+ businesses, including European startups, who choose Scaleway for its multi-AZ redundancy, smooth developer experience, carbon-neutral data centers and native tools for managing multi-cloud architectures. With fully managed offerings for bare metal, containerization and serverless architectures, Scaleway brings choice to the world of cloud computing, offering customers the ability to choose where their customer’s data resides, to choose what architecture works best for their business, and to choose a more responsible way to scale.

Our journey 💡

We want all our actions and decisions to bring us closer to achieving our vision: building and scaling technologies that make sense to us, to our customers and their end users. Scaleway is the challenger nobody’s expecting.As our business scales, the customers and developers we serve are increasingly diverse and global. Giving them an unbeatable experience is central to our business strategy and value proposition. To better understand them, we've discovered that the best way to deliver the highest value and performance is by incorporating a well-rounded team that leverages diverse perspectives, knowledge, skills, and cross-cultural understanding.

Our values 💜

Singularity: We do it our own way.

Community: One company, one culture

Adventure: Level up if you dare, never stop innovating.

Leadership: Be the leader you want to follow.

Excellence: We want to be customers' first choice as a cloud provider.

Rock Solid: You can always count on us!

About the job

At Scaleway, we are building the most complete cloud ecosystem in Europe. To this end, we rely first and foremost on a crystal-clear, quality user experience. We don’t want our users to get lost in complex interfaces. We believe there is no technical challenge that can’t be transformed into a smooth and friendly experience for our clients.

We aim to make user experience design a pillar of the cloud industry.

Reporting to our Lead UX Researcher, you will be a key player in our growing UX & Research team, working closely with our Product Managers and Product Designers to generate user insights that help the team make informed decisions.

Responsibilities

Discovery research: support and coach our Product Managers and Engineering teams to prepare, coordinate, and conduct UX research; gather user data following a structured approach, and present your analysis.
Continuous research: help our Product Managers and Product Designers coordinate and conduct internal and external usability testing, and report results.
UX design: help Product Designers make highly technical concepts as understandable as possible so that Scaleway products stand out in the cloud industry.
User advocate: work closely with other teams (Product Ops, Marketing, Customer Success, etc.) to gain a deeper understanding of our customers, their problems, needs, and behavior.
Processes: standardize research methods and support documentation to enable consistent application across teams.
Knowledge: manage UX insights and make data accessible throughout the organization.
Sharing: reinforce and evangelize the practice of UX research by sharing success stories and ensuring that the overall impact of UX research is known.

Minimum qualifications

3+ years experience in a similar UX position (as UX researcher or UX designer).
UX research methods hold no secret for you.
Human-centered interaction, usability and design thinking inspire your work.
Your methodologies are lean and adapted to an agile environment.
You possess the skill to analyze and synthesize data, uncovering patterns and insights, and providing research-based recommendations.
You are knowledgeable in Figma, FigJam, Hotjar, and web analytics.
You have excellent proficiency in both spoken and written English and French.

Preferred qualifications

Positivity, resilience and empathy best describe your personality. You gladly accept feedback and show that our users matter to you by continuously iterating and improving our products.
You are proactive and are not afraid of sharing your thoughts and ideas for improvement.
Organized and meticulous, you possess a keen eye for details.
You want to learn, improve and gain responsibility.
You have experience in documentation and delivering presentations.
Experience in working on B2B solutions.
Experience in working in technology companies.

The position is open for Freelancers only

Duration: Beginning of September 2023 to the end of February 2024

This is a six-month contract to cover a maternity leave

Location

Based in our offices in Paris or in Lille, partially remote possible

Recruitment Process

Screening call (30 mins) with Diane PAUL - Talent Acquisition Manager

Manager Interview and Portfolio Review (1H) with Yiching LIN - Lead UX Research and Gabriel GHNASSIA - VP Design

HR Interview (45 mins)

Offer sent within 48h

On average our process lasts 2-3 weeks days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

Important note: if you don't see yourself ticking all the boxes don't hesitate to apply anyway. Don't limit yourself to a job description, you never know!

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