Staff UX Researcher Job at SoFi in New York

Overview

This range is provided by SoFi. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$144,000.00 / yr - $247,500.00 / yr

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Join our dynamic team at SoFi as a Staff Researcher , playing a pivotal role in shaping product strategy and driving user-centered decision-making across the business. SoFi is a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, offering a suite of products and services including credit score monitoring, banking, investing, credit cards, personal loans, student loans, home loans, and more.

We’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance, guided by our core values. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to and often lead significant cross-functional workstreams within and occasionally beyond their business unit.
• Lead broad research projects with complex user journeys, utilizing data-driven and principle-based solutions to generate impactful insights.
• Guide project direction, delivering complex research projects with significant business impact by influencing the setting of objectives, strategy, milestones, and execution.
• Influence product priorities and strategy through compelling research insights. Be able to pivot their point of view when presented with new information.
• Apply advanced expertise in a range of qualitative and quantitative research skills, while maintaining proficiency across all core research methodologies. Influence the craft of others and contribute to elevating overall work quality within the team.
• Create high-impact artifacts (e.g., reports, presentations, workshops) that drive alignment and innovation, influencing fast but high-quality decision-making across directly relevant teams.
• Drive consistency and quality across interconnected research projects. Create and hit milestones with minimal guidance and estimate project timelines well.
• Develop into a cross-functional leader, building relationships with stakeholders across the function and business unit, including through participation in cross-functional forums. Navigate stakeholder tradeoffs to guide research decisions that impact other teams.
• Contributes actively to the research team through knowledge sharing (tools, methodologies), thoughtful collaboration, and positive engagement.

What You’ll Need

Compensation And Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page.

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and / or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics. We comply with applicable laws and ordinances, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and New York requirements where applicable. We offer reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities upon request.

New York applicants : Notice of Employee Rights. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com. Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.

Internal Roles

If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.

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