HUU: Open Role for: UX Researcher team members

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About the Project: The Home Unite Us project is developing a workflow management tool for community non-profits to automate and scale their existing Host Home initiatives. Host Home programs are centered around housing 18-25 years old by matching a willing host with a guest or group of guests, providing a stable housing environment for youths who are experiencing homelessness and seeking stable housing.

Volunteer Opportunity Home Unite Us project currently has needs for the following roles:

1 UX Researcher team members To assist with conducting user research, informing design decisions, enhancing usability, and communicate findings to Product and Engineering. Experience performing these activities below is a huge plus.

What You’ll Do:

• Attend our weekly meetings and get familiarized with our product and users.
• Assess a project’s scope, brainstorm appropriate research questions, and identify appropriate research method/s.
• Run research studies from start to finish, including developing a realistic research plan and materials, recruiting participants, and synthesizing data into findings.
• Advocate for the users by articulating your research findings and product ideas through clear and insightful presentations.
• Build partnerships with different roles across the team to understand and influence business goals and product designs.

Duration: Ongoing

Meeting Times:

• Design meeting: Mon 6:30pm PST
• Team meetings: Tues 6:30pm PST

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #home-unite-us-design
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

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