Associate Design Researcher

• Primary, Secondary, and Analogous Research Methods - You’ll draft detailed research plans, facilitate interviews with stakeholders, and plan immersions, surveys, focus groups… whatever it takes to frame the problem.
• Workshops – we design experiences that enable stakeholders to feel safe, heard, and able to engage in discussions about complex topics and experiences. You’ll design and conduct these remote and in-person workshops, identifying the required outcomes, developing frameworks and exercises to elicit insight, and facilitating the discussions that emerge.
• Immersive Research – you’ll identify and plan opportunities to step into the worlds of the people we’re designing for, and obsessively document their experiences
• Synthesis – You’ll learn to guide storytelling & team reflection on research and standout findings, developing insights, design principles, and frameworks of understanding. Ï Create thoughtful presentations that communicate actionable concepts to our client partners.
• Ideation and Prototyping – You’ll leverage your research findings to facilitate thoughtful ideation and validation exercises with project teams.
• Work with project teams and partners to define usability metrics and success criteria that ensure that the solutions we design are useful and delightful for the people they serve.
• Learn to advocate for human-centered design and the importance of centering people in our work across RSM’s business units.

• 2-4 years of professional or post-graduate experience creating and facilitating user research and conceptualizing new experiences · Strong communication skills - building narratives to share research outcomes with team members, clients, and project stakeholders
• Experience helping teams adopt and follow best research practices, apply findings, and develop strategically-aligned concepts
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your talents and experience in researching and building beautiful, human-centered experiences
• Proficiency with common design and collaboration software, including Figma, Miro, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite
• Experience visualizing research and data through compelling design is a plus
• Experience with video production and editing is a plus
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a Design discipline, Human-Computer Interaction, Anthropology, Psychology, or equivalent experience. Many backgrounds make for excellent, empathetic researchers, and non-traditional candidates are encouraged to apply.

The firm offers a competitive benefits package, base compensation, and an employee bonus program for eligible roles based on individual and firm performance per program guidelines. Base compensation ranges can be found between the ranges noted below in the posting, and an actual offer can vary based upon on role, hiring location, and qualifications. For additional information on RSM’s total rewards, visit our website at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.html. 

If required by applicable law or client policy, you may be required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or have an approved accommodation.

You want your next step to be the right one. You've worked hard to get where you are today. And now you're ready to use your unique skills, talents and personality to achieve great things. RSM is a place where you are valued as an individual, mentored as a future leader, and recognized for your accomplishments and potential. Working directly with clients, key decision makers and business owners across various industries and geographies, you'll move quickly along the learning curve and our clients will benefit from your fresh perspective.

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RSM is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.