About the Role
The Mitigation Platform team is building the foundational platform that teams across Wise will use to design, launch, and improve mitigation experiences. This role will ensure that platform is grounded in real team needs, adaptable across regions, and capable of enabling faster, more consistent, higher-quality work across Wise. The Staff Researcher will help build this foundational platform, uncovering commonalities and specific needs across mitigation workflows to inform platform-level solutions.
Responsibilities
- Setting priorities and research direction
- Demonstrating strong craft and capabilities
- Articulating now, next, and future
- Driving impact through your work
- Influencing senior leaders
- Leading with guts
- Bringing judgment to AI
Requirements
- Strong judgment and systems thinking
- Skilled at building decision confidence through well-designed studies and clear evidence
- Proven track record of scaling research influence across teams and senior stakeholders
- Experienced with mixed-method research
- Thoughtful about where AI tools accelerate the work
- Top-notch storytelling
- Able to articulate research strategy
- Able to define what success looks like
- Able to positively influence squad and team focus
- Comfortable establishing and tracking metrics
- Deep understanding of how research ladders up to team, squad, and business goals
- Track record of proactively spotting opportunities
- Skilled at influencing outcomes among senior stakeholders with strong opinions
- Track record of mentoring non-researchers to run quality research
- Experience primarily in market research and/or academia is not suitable for this role
- Demonstrable experience leading UX research within the tech/product industry is required
- Must have mentored or coached others in research before
- Must be comfortable working embedded in a squad's day-to-day
- Must be comfortable navigating ambiguity across multiple product areas in a fast-paced environment
Skills
- Generative exploration
- Evaluative studies
- Mixed-method research
- AI tools
- Storytelling
- Research strategy
- Metrics tracking
- Stakeholder influence
- Mentoring
- Navigating ambiguity
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff-level
Salary/Compensations
- GBP 102000 - GBP 133000
About the Company
- Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
- Wise is on a mission to make people's and businesses' lives easier and save them money.
- Wise is building an open, fair financial system for everyone, everywhere.
- Wise is entering an exciting stage of its journey as it scales.
Equal Opportunity
- For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too.
- We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
- We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
- Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
