Senior UX Researcher, Suno
Qualitative
$176-220k
Offers Equity
Office located in Venice Beach, CA
AI music generator
Be an early applicant
AI music generator
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$176-220k
Offers Equity
Office located in Venice Beach, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a revolutionary creative platform powered by the world's best music model to bring the joy of musical expression to everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry UX research experience, with deep specialization in qualitative methods and consumer mobile products
- A track record of research that shifted strategy, not just UI. You can name the roadmap decisions, product bets, or reversals your work drove
- Experience running in-person research with families, including in-home and in-context sessions, sessions with more than one participant at a time, and the consent and assent workflows that come with them
- Rigorous methodological judgment and the range to match method to question rather than reaching for the same study every time
- Sound instincts about ethics and participant comfort with people who are not professional research subjects
- Fluency with quantitative data. You can read an experiment readout, design a survey that holds up, and hold your own with a data scientist
- Genuinely self-directed. You find the important question before anyone assigns it, and you have a high tolerance for ambiguity, shifting priorities, and moving faster than feels comfortable
- The ability to influence senior stakeholders without authority, and to hold a position when the room disagrees
- Excited by consumer products, creativity, music, and AI, and by the idea that the interaction patterns for this category don't exist yet
- Startup experience, especially as the first or only researcher, or as a founder (even with a research team around you, this role runs on ownership rather than process)
- Experience in sensitive product areas such as safety, trust, or wellbeing
- Background in consumer mobile in audio, music, or social
- Experience researching AI and generative products, where user mental models are still forming
Desirable
- PhD in HCI, Human-Centered Computing, Psychology, Learning Sciences, or a related field, combined with real industry experience
- You know of a good UX research lab or in-person session space in LA that we could use, and bonus points if you've worked out of it
- Bonus points if you've used Suno to make music
What the job involves
- For most people, making music has always felt out of reach. Suno is changing that, and mobile is where that change will happen for the majority of people
- We are looking for a Senior Qualitative UX Researcher to own the deepest questions about the people we haven't reached yet. Not the users who already know what a stem is, but the ones who open the app with no idea what's possible and no vocabulary for what they want. Understanding how creative confidence gets built, across a very wide range of ages and levels of experience, is one of the highest-leverage research problems at the company right now
- You'll be the research partner to the PM and designer leading mobile create and working alongside them to address shared product questions. You’ll also collaborate with the researcher focused on rapid mobile evaluation, ensuring that usability insights and foundational research inform one another
- This is a senior individual contributor role with significant ownership. You’ll develop and advocate for the research roadmap, adapt it as priorities evolve, and confidently revise your perspective when new evidence emerges
- Own the foundational research agenda for mobile create - Define and run the generative studies that shape where the product goes: ethnography, diary and longitudinal studies, in-context observation, concept work. Decide what's worth studying, and say no to what won't change a decision
- Go where the creating happens - Lead in-person and in-field research, including in-home sessions and sessions with more than one participant at once, such as household and family settings. Some of the most important behavior here will never show up in a remote unmoderated test
- Be a true partner, not a service desk - Sit with the mobile create PM, designer, and engineers as decisions are being made. Bring user signal early enough to change the shape of the work, not late enough to only validate it
- Turn findings into things the org keeps using - Segmentations, journey and jobs-to-be-done frameworks, opportunity maps, design principles that outlive any single launch and get cited in rooms you're not in
- Connect qual to the numbers - Pair depth with survey and behavioral data. Work with data science as a peer to size what you find, and with growth partners to translate insight into acquisition, onboarding, and retention bets
- Raise the craft bar - Mentor, review study designs, and unblock other researchers. This is an IC role with real influence, not a management track
Our take
Suno is a company leveraging AI for music creation, attempting to make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their musical background. The platform allows users to generate complete songs by inputting text prompts, breaking down the barriers that traditionally separate amateurs from professional musicians.
Unlike other AI music tools, Suno focuses on ease-of-use, enabling even those with no music theory knowledge to produce professional-sounding songs. This approach has already attracted a diverse user base, including everyday people and GRAMMY-winning artists.
Whether the vision sits comfortably with the wider music community is another matter. For many, AI-generated music still raises ethical questions around ownership and the value of human artistry. But with investors continuing to back Suno with hundreds of millions of dollars, it's clear they believe AI music is here to stay.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2026
$400m
SERIES D
Nov 2025
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $775m
Company benefits
- Retirement Match: Suno offers a Traditional 401(k) plan and Roth 401(k) plan with a 3% Safe Harbor company match.
- Medical, Dental & Vision: We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Lunch Program: Suno offers free lunch 5 days a week in each of our office locations.
- Commuter Benefit: Generous monthly stipend for commuting expenses.
- Time Off: Suno employees are provided with unlimited paid time off as well as unlimited sick days + 11 company holidays.
- Creative Education Stipend: Annual reimbursements for creative education and development.
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to both birthing and non-birthing parents.
Company HQ
Mid-Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Leadership
Mikey Shulman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Mikey is currently a Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, a role they have held since 2018. Previously, they were the Head of Machine Learning at Kensho Technologies.
Georg Kucsko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Georg previously worked at MIT Sloan School of Management at a Lecturer. They also served as the Head of AI Research at Kensho Technologies.
Martin Camacho
(Co-Founder & President)Prior to co-founding Suno in 2022, Martin was the Head of Engineering at Firefly Health. Before that, they were the first employee at Kensho Technologies, spending nearly 6 years there as a Chief Architect and Board Director.
Keenan Freyberg
(Co-Founder & COO)Keenan is also the co-founder of Lakehold where they serve as a General Partner. Previously, they spent nearly 4 years at Kensho Technologies working in Client Operations, Product Management and Strategic Initiatives. They also worked at Capco as an Associate and at Pinshape as a Business Developer.
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