Design Researcher

We are improving lives through better eating, and we are doing this through software that is highly personalized for our users’ needs. By tapping into mobile sensor technology and combining it with a passion for design and applied psychology, we create delightful user experience to help people reach their goals!

Including more than 20 nationalities, we enjoy a vibrant mix of cultures, world views, and working styles, and it's these different perspectives that make sure we're solving the right problems. With over 45 million users worldwide, we need to grow our amazing teams with more brilliant people to keep up with the demand!

Lifesum is looking for a Design Researcher to join our mission to create the best product experiences possible to improve people's lives through better eating. The role will focus on understanding our user's behaviors, needs, and experience and how we can turn those insights into easy to understand solutions that help build better habits.

Responsibilities and what you will do

- Help set the vision for the user experience by conducting human-centered research, interpreting qualitative and quantitative data, and empathizing with users to understand the problem space and opportunities that lie within it
- Produce customer journey maps, service blueprints, personas, wireframes, and lo-fidelity prototypes that demonstrate how things are and how we want things to develop when users interact with the product
- Conduct usability testing, surveys and leverage insights, technical constraints, business needs, and specific market demands to gain diverse perspectives to navigate informed decisions and solutions
- Collaborate with other designers throughout the entire design process to ensure a high-quality and cohesive user experience that is continuously validated by insights.


Are you the one we're looking for?

To be successful in this position we believe that you have

- At least five years of experience designing a consumer-focused product for multiple mobile platforms
- The ability to fluidly adapt to challenges and solve problems in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
- A strong understanding of usability and user experience principles and how that translates into functional design within the ecosystem of a digital platform
- A broad experience with a variety of different user research methods applied across the product development process
- Worked with Sketch, Figma, and other tools relevant throughout the design process


If you have experience defining and refining methodologies and processes related to your field in an organization that is something that you would benefit from in this position.

Of course, we would be even happier if you have an interest in health, fitness, and food, but if you would rather chill on the sofa and watch your favorite TV show, you are equally welcome at Lifesum!

What is Lifesum?

Here at Lifesum, action speaks louder than words, and it's our passion that brings us all together to a force to be reckoned with! We support each other and trust that everyone is a master of their field and that you will suggest, champion, and lead when you join us.

If you think this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you and get to know you. Send us your resume right away, tell us why you are interested in this particular position and, why Lifesum feels like the right place for you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation, or age