(Senior) User Researcher, Marketing

at  Rovio

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We’re looking for a Senior or Middle level User Researcher to join our UX research team, based in our Puzzle Studio in Helsinki, Finland.
In this role, you will use a diverse toolbox of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to help guide strategy and innovation in our performance marketing and other marketing initiatives. You will be providing insights to stakeholders through workshops, presentations, and reports and collaborate closely with many parts of the organization including user acquisition, advertising creative, analytics, product marketing, and game teams.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Have 3+ years of experience working in a research role in a business environment or a completed PhD from academia
• Experience doing research in an art/creative, advertising or gaming environment, preferably using user-centric methods
• Extensive knowledge and a broad range of skills in research design and qualitative and quantitative methods applied in a business environment. Some familiarity with SPSS/R/Python is required
• Ability to translate insights and findings into actionable improvements
• Demonstrated experience with helping organizations improve their research methods
• Excellent interpersonal communication in English, both written and verbal
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams and ability to drive forward key insights/topics to company stakeholders

• Work with projects to understand competitive trends and to help develop creative strategies that resonate with the target audience and help identify new opportunities in the competitive advertising landscape
• Work closely with User Acquisition and Creative teams to recommend and conduct various research and utilize findings to help inform creative direction
• Identify the psychological and cognitive levers that influence the effectiveness of mobile marketing campaigns
• Investigate, evaluate and recommend new research techniques, technologies, methodologies and process improvements
• Actively influence, prioritize and make recommendations based on findings to creative teams, game teams and studio management
• Deliver clear, actionable and compelling insights to the product and marketing teams
• Advocate research findings to stakeholders through written reports and oral presentations, all the way up to executive leadership