Varjo is seeking a Design Researcher to join its Design & Research team in Helsinki. The role involves conducting user research across the full product lifecycle for enterprise virtual and mixed reality hardware and software, ensuring end-user insights inform design and engineering decisions.
What You'll Do
- Plan and organize user research and UX studies, including lab usability testing and evaluations
- Conduct ergonomics tests
- Perform benchmark studies
- Conduct interviews
- Administer surveys
- Carry out site visits
- Analyze research results and summarize the data into research reports
- Present research results to relevant project teams
- Collaborate with designers to translate research findings into actionable recommendations for design and engineering teams
- Work alongside the R&D organization to improve product quality through early and iterative testing
- Conduct customer research
- Perform competitor analysis
- Manage the usability lab as Lab Owner, ensuring everything is operational and up to date: PCs, headsets, audio and video recording tools, and day-to-day research supplies
What We're Looking For
- MSc, MSc (Tech), or MA in Human factors, usability, user-centered design or service design, or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of work experience in qualitative user research
- Good verbal communication skills
- Fluent language skills in both Finnish and English
- Ability to conduct interviews in both Finnish and English
- Understanding of human factors and ergonomics
- Ability to consider human factors and ergonomics as essential part of user experience of wearable devices
- Curiosity and capability to work with new technologies and early technology prototypes
- This is a hands-on role in our Helsinki-based team
- Work will be performed mostly on site at our headquarters in Kaisaniemi
- Full remote work is not possible in this role
Nice to Have
- Experience with hardware products
- Experience with multi-modal user interfaces
Technical Stack
- PCs
- headsets
- audio and video recording tools
Team & Environment
- multidisciplinary team including UX and industrial designers, product managers, software and hardware engineers
- Design & Research team within a larger R&D organization
Benefits & Compensation
- Opportunity to take part in creating the new state-of-the-art in virtual and mixed reality experiences
- A low-hierarchy culture with minimal bureaucracy and maximum opportunity for you to take charge of your work
- An international working environment with tons of opportunities to learn and grow with the company
Work Mode
- Work will be performed mostly on site at our headquarters in Helsinki, Kaisaniemi
- Full remote work is not possible in this role
Varjo believes in the power of diversity. Diversity of experiences, backgrounds, and ideas drives innovation and results.
