Senior UX Researcher (100% Remote Worldwide)
Tether Operations Limited
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Requires 5+ years of UX research experience across consumer and/or developer products
- Mandatory AI fluency: must actively use AI tools to speed up research planning, synthesis, insight mapping, documentation, and reporting
- Works across multiple product pillars (Stable Finance, Stable Intelligence, Stable Power, Stable Communications)
- Remote work from any location globally
- Focus on UX for products involving trust, privacy, security, money movement, and technical complexity
- Needs strong communication skills to translate findings for Design, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and leadership
Role overview
Tether is a global fintech company pioneering a digital financial revolution by enabling businesses to integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. Their cutting-edge solutions empower users to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally. With products including the world's most trusted stablecoin USDT and Tether Wallet, Tether focuses on transparency, trust, and innovation in digital finance.
Responsibilities
- Run UX research across Tether's consumer and developer products: Keet, QVAC Workbench, Tether Wallet, developer portals, and more
- Identify UX best practices and emerging patterns across each product category
- Research competitors and adjacent products to surface how others are solving comparable problems, and where the gaps are
- Translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for product designers and product managers
- Partner with product teams across all four pillars (Stable Finance, Stable Intelligence, Stable Power, Stable Communications) to inform decisions at every stage of the product lifecycle
- Build and maintain a research repository so insights compound over time and are reusable across teams
- Tailor methods to each product qualitative, quantitative, lightweight, deep whatever the question actually needs
Requirements
- 5+ years of UX research experience across consumer and/or developer products
- End-to-end research chops: defining the question, picking the method, executing, synthesizing, and communicating outcomes
- Strong command of qualitative methods (interviews, usability testing, contextual inquiry) and working familiarity with quantitative ones
- Working knowledge of at least one of: crypto wallets and self-custody, messaging or P2P, AI applications, or developer tooling
- Sharp written and verbal communication — able to convert ambiguous findings into decision-ready recommendations
- Experience with products where trust, privacy, security, money movement, or technical complexity affect the user experience
- Mandatory AI fluency: you must actively use AI tools to speed up research planning, synthesis, insight mapping, documentation, and reporting, while applying strong human judgement
- Strong product judgement: able to separate signal from noise and identify which insights should influence the product
- Comfortable working in fast-moving environments where research needs to be practical, focused, and useful
- Genuine curiosity, critical thinking, and depth of analysis that goes beyond surface-level observations
- Low-ego collaboration style, with the ability to challenge assumptions clearly and constructively
Nice to have
- Background researching developer audiences and developer experience specifically
- Experience setting up UX research practices from scratch or scaling them across multiple product teams
- Background in fintech, crypto, AI, P2P, or open-source ecosystems
- Familiarity with privacy-preserving research methods
- Ability to create low-fidelity prototypes to demonstrate and inspire potential user flow, functionality and content structure improvements
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