Part-Time Student-UX Researcher-Urbandale IA-Remote - 90943
Onsite/Remote:Remote Position
The Part-Time Student Program is primarily designed to augment the Company’s regular full-time staff and is for students who work in parallel to their school schedule YEAR-ROUND.
Position is open to assignments performed remotely with possible travel to John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) in Urbandale, Iowa, or to customer locations in the Midwest if necessary.
Your Responsibilities
- Support John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group's UX Research Team and gain industry experience by documenting customer needs, developing research protocols, running customer events, analyzing data, and recommending improvements for our digital experiences and highly automated products in the Planting and Seeding space.
- Operate as part of a data-driven team and build skills in identifying research questions, quickly developing a plan to collect data with a limited number of customers and presenting research analyses/findings back to program leadership.
- You will receive mentoring/coaching to expand your UX talents and be afforded opportunities to hone your skillset by interacting with real customers to solve real problems.
What Skills You Need
- Ideally you will be pursuing a graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction or Psychology (Cognitive, Applied, Experimental, etc) or closely related field
- Must be registered as a full-time student at an accredited university
- Graduation date of May 2023 or later
- Cumulative GPA of 3.2 or above
- Available to work 15-20 hours/weekly during the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 academic semesters
- Available to work on and complete assignments remotely
- Available to travel to Urbandale, Iowa, onsite or customer locations in the Midwest if needed
- Core understanding of human factors principles, experimental design, and collecting data with human subjects
- Ability to review relevant literature in human factors, user experience, and human behavior and use that information to propose research studies or product improvements
- Comfortable defining and executing contextual inquiry and usability studies
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze/interpret data in order to draw conclusions and make recommendations that enhance the user experience
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
What Makes You Stand Out
- Familiarity with human-technology teaming research and knowledge of automation and autonomy UX challenges (e.g., trust, reliance, compliance, etc)
- Experience with statistical analysis and analytics tools and methods
- Experience facilitating remote data collection studies