UX Researcher (Growth)

19 hours, 2 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Design and User Experience
Tailscale

Tailscale

Tailscale is a zero config VPN service that simplifies network security and connectivity for teams of any scale, offering easy deployment, minimal latency, and compatibility with existing services.

Diversified Telecommunication Services
51-250
Founded 2019
$115M raised

Description

  • Own the full lifecycle of growth research studies, including scoping, recruiting, conducting, analyzing, and communicating results.
  • Design and run moderated and unmoderated usability tests, interviews, surveys, mixed-method studies, and longitudinal research.
  • Analyze behavioral logs, survey results, experimental data, community feedback, and other sources to validate hypotheses and identify research opportunities.
  • Identify user needs and adoption barriers across trial, proof-of-concept, and product adoption stages.
  • Model adoption behaviors and define relevant user personas.
  • Partner with Growth PMs and Designers to translate hypotheses into studies and deliver actionable findings.
  • Help test and validate designs, identify product friction, and recommend experiment and design ideas.
  • Work within the growth team’s experiment and A/B testing cadence while communicating progress and findings effectively.
  • Develop expertise in Tailscale’s product, growth model, acquisition, activation, pricing, packaging, billing, and SKU-related questions.
  • Progress toward independently identifying research opportunities and managing a growth research program.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in UX research or a related applied research field.
  • Strong quantitative research skills, including survey design, experimental methods, and statistical analysis.
  • Expertise in moderated and unmoderated usability testing and experience with one or more testing platforms.
  • Fluency in experimental design, survey methodology, inferential statistics, and quantitative data analysis.
  • Experience independently managing recruiting, scheduling, compensation, and other study logistics.
  • Clear communication skills with the ability to tailor findings for product and engineering audiences.
  • Experience working in SaaS, B2B, enterprise, or technical product environments.
  • Background in human factors, behavioral psychology, or HCI (preferred).
  • Experience with growth or acquisition research, advanced quantitative user research, A/B testing frameworks, or experimentation programs (preferred).
  • Comfort with fast, practical research while recognizing when greater methodological rigor is needed.

Benefits

  • US base salary range of $146,000–$183,000, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.
  • Health, vision, and dental coverage for employees and families with no waiting period.
  • Remote-first, flexible work environment with coworking support and home internet reimbursement.
  • Employer retirement contributions matched dollar-for-dollar up to 0.75% of eligible compensation.
  • $1,500 annual professional development budget plus mentorship, coaching, and promotion opportunities.
  • Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave of up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
  • Company laptop, $500 home office setup allowance, annual retreat, and team off-sites.

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