Notion - Rapid User Researcher

• What You'll Achieve: • End-to-end tactical research: Scope, design, and execute quick-turn research across the product lifecycle—delivering clear recommendations that drive product decisions, including • Rolling usability testing: Plan and moderate rapid usability tests on prototypes and in-product flows; identify friction, comprehension gaps, and failure points; recommend practical fixes and prototype them with AI. • Concept testing: Help teams evaluate early ideas (storyboards, low/high-fidelity prototypes, new IA) to understand desirability, comprehension, and expected workflows—before teams invest heavily in build. • Research pipeline ownership: Keep an always-on motion healthy by managing intake/prioritization, study cadence, participant recruitment, and consistent output formats so partners know what to expect and can act quickly. • Communication: Deliver crisp, actionable recommendation (severity, confidence, recommended next steps) in the right format for the audience—async write-ups, clips, or working sessions. • Business-minded impact: Connect findings to outcomes—why an issue matters, what to change, and what to watch—then follow through with teams to ensure improvements land. • Research craft: You can independently run usability and/or concept tests end-to-end (scoping → protocol → moderation → synthesis → readout), and you know how to keep scope tight while preserving rigor. You’re also comfortable using AI thoughtfully to speed up prep/synthesis while maintaining quality and traceability to evidence. • AI fluency: You’re curious and hands-on with AI products and can translate concepts, like trust, usefulness, tone, safety, and clarity, into observable behaviors and research questions. • Pragmatism + speed: You excel at prioritizing in fast-moving environments, are comfortable with ambiguity, and can deliver quality research quickly with transparent limitations. • Systems thinking: You can quickly understand complex user journeys and identify where experiences break down across the system—from inputs, to product behavior, to UI patterns. • Communication: You write clearly, facilitate effectively, and can translate messy data into decisions and next steps for busy EPD partners. • Collaboration: You’re comfortable working across many stakeholders and switching context quickly without dropping details. • Experience: 3+ years of hands-on UX research experience (industry, agency, or equivalent) • Familiarity with AI-enabled product experiences (e.g., assistants/agents) and how to evaluate workflow success, user expectations, and trust. • Comfort collaborating on research-operations basics (recruiting, scheduling, etc.) to keep a rolling cadence healthy. • Background in UX design, engineering, or similar. • Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $164,000-$190,000 per year. • By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy and NYLL 144. • You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on. • Equal Opportunity & Accommodations