Senior User Studies Researcher, Apple
$143.1-264.2k
+ Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards & can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Office located in Cupertino, CA
Personal technology company
Open for applications
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$143.1-264.2k
+ Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards & can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Office located in Cupertino, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is experienced in conducting human-centered research and analysis, is sensitive to different languages and cultures, and is passionate about improving Apple’s products for its global user base
- You thrive in a fast-paced and creative work environment, consistently delivering high quality results within project timelines, and always adapting to new requirements and directions
- 4+ years of experience in human-centered research: designing and conducting user studies, analyzing study data, and sharing results (reports, presentations, etc.)
- Comfortable analyzing large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data
- Able to produce meaningful visualizations and summaries of the data, and effectively present results to different audiences and across multiple media formats
- Able to convey results objectively without being influenced by personal emotions, biases, and external forces
- Able to work independently as well as collaboratively with minimal direction
- Organized, highly attentive to detail, and manages time well
Desirable
- Advanced degree in human factors (HF), human-computer interaction (HCI), experimental psychology, data analytics, or any engineering or computer science field
- Proficiency in any data analysis and visualization software, and/or programming languages for data analysis (e.g. Matlab, JMP, SPSS, Python, R, Tableau, etc.)
- Experience using spreadsheet and presentation software (e.g. Numbers, Excel, Keynote, Adobe Illustrator, etc.)
- Solid understanding of statistics
- Fluency in one or more languages other than English
- Experience working in industry
What the job involves
- The Intelligent System Experience (ISE) group is seeking a Senior User Studies Researcher to join our user studies team to help deliver the best possible user experience for iPhone, iPad, and Mac products, as well as prototype products
- You will serve as the users’ advocate, delivering an unbiased view of users’ needs and synthesizing data into insights and action items for our cross-functional project teams
- As a member of our dynamic team, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to influence the direction of upcoming products that will delight millions of Apple customers around the world every single day!
- Develop and conduct Apple-internal in-person and remote user studies on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms and features impacting home screens, lock screens, keyboards, and internationalization; as well as new platforms and prototypes
- Primarily focus on extracting insights about usability and overall user experience from qualitative and quantitative data, and objectively presenting the findings to engineering, design, QA, and product marketing teams to help inform design decisions
- Monitor ongoing user feedback and issues, and advocate for a large and diverse customer base
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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