Amazon
Senior UX Researcher, Fauna
$167K–$226K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years leading user research projects and 5+ years of hands-on research experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in HCDE, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field.
About the job
Leads user research to shape the experience of Fauna Robotics’ everyday robots, identifying product risks and guiding design and development with evidence.
What you'll do
- Establish and manage the research practice, including recruiting, study protocols, measures, and reporting.
- Plan and conduct end-to-end lab, field, prototype, concept, and longitudinal studies; define experience metrics.
- Share actionable findings and coach teams to build a culture of proactive measurement and reflection.
What they ask for
- 5+ years leading user research projects with demonstrated impact.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience across field research, ethnography, lab-based and remote testing, prototype and concept testing, and survey design.
- Bachelor's degree in HCDE, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field.
- Experience with research study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting, behavioral data collection, quantitative analysis, and statistics; portfolio of research work and deliverables.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Human Factors, HCDE, Cognitive Psychology or equivalent; familiarity with human-robot interaction, conversational or agentic systems, or embodied experiences.
- Longitudinal or in-home physical-product research; research outcomes on a 0 to 1 product or new category; experience using AI-assisted research tools.
Pay
USD 167,400.00 - 226,500.00 annually (base salary)
AI focus
Preferred: experience using AI-assisted tools in research workflows.
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