PointClickCare
Senior UX Researcher – 6 month contract
About this role
Job Title: Senior UX Researcher – 6 month contract Location: USA – Remote Contract Term: 6 month contract **Travel to Office expectations** For Remote Roles: If this role is remote, there will be in-office events that require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These may include onboarding, team events, and semi-annual or annual team meetings. At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company that’s founder-led and privately held, we empower our employees to push boundaries, innovate, and shape the future of healthcare. With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400+ integrated partners, our platform serves over 30,000 provider organizations, making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development, ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting impact. Recognized by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, we offer flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work. At PointClickCare, we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity, productivity, and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows, collaboration is enhanced, outcomes are improved, and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission, and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey. Join us in redefining healthcare — so it doesn’t just survive, it thrives. To learn more about PointClickCare, check out Life at PointClickCare and connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn. About the Team The UX Research team partners directly with Product and UX Design from early opportunity discovery and ideation through delivery. This role supports the Integrated Care portfolio, including products serving acute and payer markets and healthcare and financial workflows such as Prior Authorization and Concurrent Review. The team keeps product and design decisions moving with timely, actionable customer insights. Position Summary: The Senior UX Researcher drives strategic and tactical product decisions by planning and conducting research, usability studies, and mixed-method discovery. Working directly with Product and UX Design, this role identifies the right participants, recommends fit-for-purpose methodologies, recruits and conducts studies, synthesizes qualitative and quantitative findings, and translates insights into strategy and design recommendations. The Senior UX Researcher also provides project leadership and communicates research decisions and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders. Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with Product and UX Design at the beginning of projects, opportunities, and ideation to formulate discovery plans, identify the right customers and stakeholders to engage, and recommend appropriate research methodologies.
- Lead end-to-end research activities, including participant recruitment, discussion guide development, study facilitation, analysis, synthesis, and sharing findings. Methods may include surveys, in-depth interviews, remote feedback, usability testing, and prototype-based research when appropriate.
- Conduct user outreach, use-case discovery, persona and journey mapping, validation, and usability studies using unbiased and standardized research practices.
- Translate customer feedback and research data into actionable insights and strategy and design recommendations for Product, UX Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders.
- Lead or participate in workshops, communicate strategic research decisions to leadership, and provide project leadership to researchers and designers on assigned initiatives.
- Collaborate with internal subject matter experts, Customer Success, Data Science, and Customer Insights to strengthen understanding of personas, journeys, and use cases and encourage adoption of research best practices. Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a UX researcher or in a similar customer-focused research role.