Junior UX Researcher 2022
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.