User Researcher

5 months ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Capgemini Invent Full time

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.
 

By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

About Capgemini Invent

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.

Our brand promise “Get The Future You Want” reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company’s commitment to inclusion and sustainability.
 

An important aspect of ‘Get the Future You Want’ is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable). We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success. When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

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An overview of the role

As a User Researcher, you will be joining the growing and exciting Digital Factory community who are continually sharing knowledge and expertise. We are all passionate about user centred design, critical thinking, problem solving and designing and building digital services and products. 

Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working with major clients in both public and private sector (including DWP, NHS Digital, BP and Ikea). Our offices are in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working, however depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations.

Why this role?

As a User Researcher you will:

Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, developers, and other User Researchers to plan and conduct high-impact research that helps develop a better understanding of our clients’ users.  Contribute to creating better products and services that solve users’ problems and meets their needs.  Lead the research for your team, suggesting the best approaches and methodologies to use to capture the right user insights. Plan and run qualitative studies, including remote and in person interviews, observations, diary studies, concept testing and usability studies. Use quantitative methods such as surveys to identify actionable insights and collaborate with the analytics team to enhance qualitative insights. Consider the end-to-end user journey and external factors that may impact the user experience including business, policy, and technical constraints. Communicate research findings and involve your team in analysis and synthesis to develop empathy with the users and enable evidence-based design decisions. Help to embed user-centred design and user research best practices into teams and the wider business. 

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories: 

Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.  Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.  Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc. 

What skills and experience you will bring:

Essential

Hands-on experience of leading user research, using behavioural and attitudinal methods and knowing when to apply them appropriately. Experience across multiple phases of a product or service lifecycle, from discovery and exploration through to design and delivery. You are currently holding and active SC (Security Check) Clearance  Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles Strong storytelling, communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills. Experience working in multi-disciplinary, agile teams where you’ve led the user research and influenced the design of a product or service through the insights you’ve gathered. Familiarity with using prototypes to test hypotheses, assumptions and validate user journeys. Understanding of a range of tools and practices for in-person and remote research. 

Bonus

A Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, sociology, anthropology, Human Computer Interaction or any user experience degree or modules, and passion for technology’s unlimited potential and ability to engage with people.  You know how to include a diverse range of users in appropriate research activities to help teams deliver accessible services.  A love of learning – you can make the most of this growing form of technology to develop your skills in parallel with the needs of your clients. 

We are hiring all levels of experience. Whether you have been working as part of a small team or leading large or complex engagements, we have the role for you. Potential is also just as important to us as having the required skills. If you have the right mindset and you’re passionate about the role, we will be able to provide you with bespoke training and the support to build all the skills you need. 

Why is Capgemini unique?

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.
 

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
 

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Capgemini Invent UK is a winner at the for the 4th year running , placing in the top 50 employers in its list of the Best Places to Work in 2024.

The work

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time

Collaboration and Innovation

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you’ll get to know the customer’s needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems. It’ll help you discover unexpected answers together. 

Learning and Development

There’s an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. So, you’ll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all of our teams.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing. 

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