Summer 2025 Intern - User Experience Researcher

When can you expect to hear back?

We are committed to attending all career fairs and recruitment events before closing our positions. That means, this position might be open without updates for a few weeks to give us time to connect with all potential candidates before wrapping up the recruitment season. Check out our tentative timeline below to see when you can expect to hear from us! 

• All postings close: February 21st, 2025 

• Interviews: Early to Mid March

• Offers: By end of March

2025 Start Dates:

This position has opportunities to start in the Summer. Please see our start date below and let us know your availability.

• Summer Internships: Monday, May 19, 2025 (40/hours per week max)

The User Experience Researcher Intern will support researchers in conducting qualitative and quantitative research that covers the breadth of customer experiences. This role will help collect evidence and insights that will be used to proactively solve feature-level problems.

What You’ll Do

• Conduct research project(s) to ensure ongoing customer success and identify product improvements

• Leverage research methods such as moderated and unmoderated usability testing, concept testing, surveys, observation, and other techniques to understand users

• Organize, analyze, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to surface key insights and findings

• Craft needed materials for research studies such as research plans, moderator guides, surveys, and presentations for shareouts that align methods and scope with needs and constraints

• Collaborate with User Experience Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers

What You'll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be actively enrolled in a degree-seeking program (BA/BS or higher) in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Anthropology,  Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Science, Computer Science, or related discipline

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods such as moderated and unmoderated usability testing, concept testing, survey design, observation, discovery interviews, etc.

• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to work well in a cross-functional team

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and collaboration skills

• Attention to detail

Travel Requirements and Working Conditions

• Minimal travel

• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship now or in the future

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ Salary range in the US: $32.00 - $32.00

✅ 401(k) participation and match

✅ Paid sick leave

✅ A unique opportunity to further your learning experience through additional internship seasons

Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We believe that great minds think differently.  We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation.  Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.  We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.

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