Overview:
Creates understanding and empathy around user needs, stated and unstated, for the product team including designers, product managers and engineers. Develops and conducts primary research studies and explores behaviors and motivations of users through field visits, ethnography, surveys, usability testing and logs analysis. Based on research findings, assists with creation of new products and features, as well as continually innovates existing products. Delivers written, in-person, and visual presentations on research findings to support all stages of product development.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Strategize, implement and maintain a consistent research discipline, discovering how users interact with modern financial products and enabling a deep understanding of the Bank’s current and potential customers.
- Create and execute brainstorm sessions and research studies with customers, stakeholders and internal users for concept generation, concept validation and usability.
- Gain user insight through qualitative in-depth interviews, stakeholder interviews, usability testing, quantitative surveys and contextual inquiries.
- Build and maintain a strong partnership with Voice of the Customer research to leverage existing research, stay aligned across scheduled research efforts and inform the Company’s overall understanding of user needs and expectations.
- Communicate research results, set baseline requirements for design and implementation and recommend strategic improvements to teams.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
Scope of Responsibilities:
At M&T Bank, user experience (UX) is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative and visually appealing products that people love. The job holder strives to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to yield insights that inform product strategy and guide design of the experiences created. The position develops relationships and works closely with leaders in Product Management, Software Engineering, Marketing, and Business to solve complex challenges and craft powerful experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities.
Education and Experience Required:
Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years’ UX research experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years’ UX research experience
Background in the user experience researcher field, designing and conducting user research studies and applying design-thinking methodologies
Prior experience with innovative thinking, the value of research and working with stakeholders to deliver results
Strong understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during product development processes
Experience dealing with ambiguity and leveraging design research as a means to bring clarity to abstract ideas
Experience with accessibility standards, cross-platform issues, mobile user interfaces and systems-thinking
Experience using modern design, prototyping and collaboration tools
Experience interacting with various multi-disciplinary teams of professionals
Strong collaboration skills
Education and Experience Preferred:
Minimum of a master’s degree in a related field
Experience in survey design, including working knowledge of statistics and experimental design
Experience in creating use cases, flow diagrams, prototypes, scenarios and wireframes in the context of user research
Proficiency in industry best practices for desktop, mobile and web applications
Experience working with Product Managers, Product Designers and Product Owners
Experience working in the financial industry
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M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $107,656.56 - $179,427.60 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
LocationBaltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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What We Do
Waste Connections, Inc. is an integrated solid waste services company that provides waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets in the U.S. and Canada. Through its R360 Environmental Solutions subsidiary, the Company is also a leading provider of non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several of the most active natural resource producing areas in the United States, including the Permian, Bakken and Eagle Ford Basins. Waste Connections serves more than six million residential, commercial, industrial, and exploration and production customers from a network of operations in 39 states, six provinces and the District of Columbia. The Company also provides intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest.
Our corporate strategy targets secondary and suburban markets that have strong demographic growth trends and where competitive barriers to entry can be developed. We seek to avoid highly competitive, large urban markets and target markets where we can provide either non-integrated or integrated solid waste services under exclusive arrangements, or markets where we can be integrated and attain high market share. We are a leading provider of solid waste services in most of our markets, and approximately 50% of our revenues are derived from market areas where we have franchise or exclusive rights to provide our waste services.
