UX Researcher
Company: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Location: North Carolina (Remote)
Salary: $81,068 - $129,708 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-12
About this role
We are seeking a UX Researcher to help us build a deep understanding of our users and inform great experiences for health insurance members, providers, agents, employer groups, etc.
## What You Bring
- **Self-direction:** Gather information about project requirements and work with other members of the UX research team, UX designers, product managers, and business teams to establish priorities
- **Conducting Research:** Plan and conduct user research studies, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, to understand user behaviors, motivations, and trends
- **Support Designers in Research Efforts:** Work with product designers to run some research studies on their own and ensure they’re following best practices.
- **Insight Finding:** Analyze research data to provide actionable insights and identify connections across projects
- **Artifact Creation:** Map user journeys and systems, and create UX personas or archetypes to help better understand your target users
- **Research Readouts:** Present research findings to senior leadership, product teams, the UX teams, and other key stakeholders to help shape design and strategic decisions
- **Sizing and Estimation:** Work with partners and agile teams to provide estimates of timing and level of effort for research
- **Maintaining Research Repository:** Document and communicate research findings in the research repository for team members and internal partners to access
- **Participate in Critique:** Participate in business and UI reviews with multi-disciplinary product teams
- **Coordinating Research Studies:** Coordinate and conduct research sessions, including participant recruitment and session scheduling
- **Prioritization of Efforts:** Help to prioritize research opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment using a “just enough research” mindset
- **Expert Heuristic Evaluation:** Evaluate and review websites and other digital services from a user's perspective, including those of competitors, ...