Design Researcher

7 days ago


Singapore ETHOS SEARCH ASSOCIATES PTE. LTD. Full time

**This will be a 12-months renewable contract position based in Jurong.
**Scope of Work**
- Develop design research plans for innovation projects, including objectives, schedules, methodologies, and participants.
- Recruit research participants either directly or by briefing and managing recruitment and research agencies.
- Identify the core problem areas to be researched, the insights and wisdom, and then design and implement the required research programme.
- Document and execute the design research process across the Design Thinking Framework
- Provide the project team with the user empathy and the voice of the consumer.
- Present the interpretation and synthesis of research findings to the team as sound actionable insights and design.
- Add additional user and market data to the innovation process
- Initiate quantitative-based surveys and testing to further refine the design concepts.

**Requirement**
- 2 years of experience in the industry.
- Degree in either industrial design, ethnography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, communication or related field.
- Able to document customer requirements including insights, problems and opportunity for design.
- Client and project management abilities
- Excellent communication, written, analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills
- Experienced in scoping, conducting and managing budgets and schedules for design research projects
- Experienced in a wide range of human-centred research methodologies including writing research plans and 3rd party research briefs, qualitative interviews, and designing physical to digital research materials - concept sketch cards, customer journey maps, and co-creation exercises
- Experienced in research capture and storytelling
- Able to use of professional recording tools (photography and video equipment and editing programs, translation and transcribing)
- Experienced in conducting prototype-testing and feedback sessions across physical and digital products
- Able to build good working relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders


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