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    Deep Silver Dambuster Studios are looking to appoint a Junior UX Researcher. As both a member of Dambuster Studios and the Koch Media GamesLab, you will be part of a diverse and distributed team of UX Researchers and Data Analysts tasked with supporting a wide range of Deep Silver and Prime Matter titles, providing UX research for AAA games of various genres.

    Main Duties and Responsibilities

    • Be the main point of contact in the studio regarding the use of UX research
    • Design experiments to answer their questions using scientific methods (surveys, interviews, eye tracking etc.)
    • Recruit participants, collect data, analyse it, and report the results together with useful visualisations
    • Develop and adapt new methods to improve the playtesting process
    • Collaborate closely with analytics team members in combining quantitative and qualitative research findings
    • Work closely with different game development teams and editorial teams around the world on a wider range of AAA video games from all genres. Understand their requirements and questions related to a project and conduct experiments to support them in the development process

    Requirements

    • University degree (BSc, MSc) in psychology-related or videogames-related program (psychology, human-computer interface, game design etc.)
    • Scientific curiosity and drive to get deep insights into problems
    • Experience with conducting experiments and communicating the results
    • Good problem-solving and analytical skills
    • Very good English skills (written and spoken)
    • Ideally a passion for video games
    • Ideally some experience with statistics and statistical programming in R

    What’s in it for you?

    Aside from the opportunity to work on the highly anticipated, next instalment of the AAA Dead Island franchise, we are a studio that offers a host of benefits and perks.

    • An industry competitive salary.
    • Be part of an agile, distributed team, motivated to contribute to a variety of AAA video games
    • Room to grow as a researcher and take on an important role in the team
    • Funded learning and development opportunities.
    • An experienced, passionate, and diverse team.
    • A vibrant, modern, and well-serviced city centre location.
    • Gym membership scheme.
    • Free financial advice.
    • Annual pay reviews.
    • Employee referral bonus scheme.
    • Cycle to work scheme.
    • Relocation assistance.

    And a whole host of other soft benefits that help make Dambuster Studios such a great place to work:

    • Flexible working around core hours.
    • Support and encouragement to participate in outreach opportunities.
    • Quarterly company funded team building events.
    • Weekly treats: including breakfast on Mondays and pastries on Fridays.
    • Free fruit, hot and cold drinks.
    • Annual Christmas party and family focused summer BBQ.
    • Peer nominated SuperStar of the month award.