Senior UX Researcher, Consumer Product

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It hosts 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, making it one of the internet's largest sources of information.

As a Senior UX Researcher, Consumer Product, you will lead research that helps shape Reddit's core consumer experiences. You will study how people discover, consume, participate in, and contribute to communities, uncovering motivations, behaviors, barriers, and opportunities. You will partner with product, design, engineering, data science, and other cross-functional teams to identify user needs, inform product strategy, and guide high-impact product decisions.

• Lead high-impact foundational, generative, and evaluative research for consumer product experiences.
• Investigate user behaviors, motivations, and needs across discovery, consumption, engagement, and contribution experiences.
• Design and execute rigorous qualitative research, including interviews, usability studies, concept testing, diary studies, and other methods.
• Integrate qualitative insights with quantitative signals, behavioral data, surveys, experimentation, and product metrics.
• Partner with product, design, engineering, data science, and other cross-functional teams to shape roadmaps and influence product direction.
• Communicate research findings through clear narratives and actionable recommendations for cross-functional and leadership audiences.
• Proactively identify research opportunities across a broad product area.

• Master's degree, Ph.D., or equivalent experience in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Behavioral Science, Sociology, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience conducting consumer-focused UX research, preferably as an embedded researcher on a product team.
• Deep expertise in qualitative research methods and strong judgment about when to apply different methods.
• Fluency with mixed-methods research, including connecting qualitative insights with quantitative data, product metrics, survey findings, or experimentation results.
• Demonstrated experience influencing product strategy and driving product or user experience impact.
• Strong product sense, including comfort with engagement metrics, experimentation, tradeoffs, and ambiguous product questions.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and adapt as needs evolve.

Base salary range: $167,500—$234,500 USD. Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, 401k with employer match, flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, generous paid parental leave, family planning support, gender-affirming care, mental health & coaching benefits, and global benefit programs.

Apply via the official job posting on Reddit's Greenhouse board.