UX Research Manager - Facebook Feed

UX Research Manager – Facebook Feed

Bachelor’s degree or significant experience conducting UX research with meaningful business impact
10+ years of experience conducting primary research (either qualitative or quantitative) across the full product lifecycle, end-to-end (designing, fielding, analyzing and reporting out data)
2+ years of experience directly managing, coaching and developing full-time researchers
Experience building teams over time through hiring, growing, and retaining high-performing researchers
Experience directly managing across different research methodologies, and guiding a research team to develop generative, iterative, and evaluative research plans
Experience building and setting research strategy that connects with business strategy
Experience working with a variety of cross functional peers and stakeholders (product managers, data scientists, designers, engineers, policy, communications, marketing)
Understand complex technical product areas (e.g. recommendation ranking)

Manage a research team that is large in size (6 individual contributors) and complexity
Experienced in working with product, engineering, design, data science and product marketing
Make staffing decisions based on business priorities, both short term and long term, as well as team strengths and motivation
Identify gaps and solutions for future growth and scale within the team or organization, including system, product, function, partnership and/or organization opportunities
Responsible for the quality of the team, including coaching, growing individual contributors and coaching under-performing team members
Become a trusted, strategic partner to product stakeholders by communicating and demonstrating the value of user research, and by delivering insights that lead to demonstrable business value
Have a point of view about strategic decisions, using insights from the team. Understand how to influence stakeholders and leaders to implement the best ideas