UX researcher resume template

Adapt by widening your method range as you rise. Early-career researchers should show rigorous execution of a few methods, the way the Civic Lab role covers recruitment, contextual inquiry, and thematic coding across ninety transcripts. Mid-level researchers add study design ownership and mixed methods. Senior applicants need the Wayfinder pattern: research that moved a roadmap, a large-sample survey feeding a redesign, and infrastructure like the repository, because senior research is judged on organisational influence rather than study count.

Research screeners verify method breadth first, checking that qualitative and quantitative vocabulary both appear, then look for the influence trail. Sixty sessions mean little on their own; sessions that reprioritised a roadmap toward two flows mean everything, which is why each bullet here ends in a product consequence. Sample sizes and study counts also get scanned because they signal rigour and pace, so state them plainly: respondent counts, interview volume, transcript numbers.

The filters for this role: findings described without decisions, which suggests research that was interesting rather than useful; method name-dropping with no visible analysis step, since turning raw sessions into findings is where researchers earn their keep; and no operational awareness. Recruitment, consent, and repository work appear in this sample because research that cannot be found or repeated dies quietly. Avoid presenting satisfaction scores you did not design or analyse as personal outcomes; reviewers check that attribution.