Games Researcher
We're a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard with a 25 day minimum enforced. We play games together, we work hard together.
Summary:
This is a junior role, suitable for a graduate, or early career in User Research. You will assist the Research Manager in identifying valuable insights from data and communicate it clearly to various stakeholders.
You will be expected to implement methodologies to generate, collect and measure data for use by teams across the business. You will need to be able to operate with some level of ambiguity and work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Support and assist the Research Manager in developing and running research capabilities at Netspeak Games
Work with various teams to continuously iterate on measuring and improving KPIs from a research perspective
Maintain awareness for ongoing research needs from the development team and identify new research opportunities
Develop tools and methodologies to improve our research function capabilities
Perform research operations, such as recruiting, screening, and moderating participants- and help maintain a participant database for in-house research
Conduct and facilitate studies using bespoke research methods that best fit the company’s needs. (eg. usability studies, playtests, market research, research workshops etc)
Analyze data and present actionable insights and feedback for developers
Write and deliver reports, and communicate findings to developers and wider team
Your Mission:
Netspeak has three pillars: Excellence, Commercial & Inclusion. As our new Games Researcher you will join our research team to better inform business decisions through games user research and consumer insights. Your mission is to support user research through all stages from planning to execution, including data analyses and report preparation and presentation.
You will assist with creating and facilitating a variety of bespoke research methods to best fit the stakeholders’ needs, including play tests, usability studies, interviews, surveys, etc
Experience and Skills:
Must have academic knowledge of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed data methods
Must demonstrate a passion for games user research, though no industry experience is required
Must have very strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to clearly present findings at all levels of the business
Must have strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, and analyze different types of data from various sources, with attention to detail and accuracy
- Locations
- Fully Remote
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Yearly salary
- £30,000 - £40,000
Fully Remote
Perks and benefits
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⚡️ Time to recharge
To do your best work, you need healthy work/life balance, headspace, and plenty of time to recharge your creative batteries! We finish early on Fridays and operate with zero-cruch. We also don't set a limit on paid time off, and make sure everyone takes at least 25 days annual leave.
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👶 Families welcome!
We offer enhanced pay support for pregnant employees.
(Weeks 1 – 12 at 100% pay. Weeks 13 - 20 at 50% pay. Weeks 21 – 24 at 25% pay. Weeks 25 – 39 at the Statutory Maternity Pay rate).
For secondary carers we offer four weeks at 100% pay. Several Netspeakers are proud parents, and we’re often happily treated to guest baby appearances in meetings!
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🎓 Monthly learning
We want all Netspeakers to grow, experiment, learn, and develop while they’re here. Every month, we devote half a day to independent learning - setting time aside to read books, attend talks, try out new things, skill up via courses & more.
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✨ Work together, play together
Our games are fun. Our workplace should be too! We’re a friendly bunch, always looking for a chance to do playful stuff as a team. We run D&D Thursdays, MTG lunches, and all Netspeakers are invited to play games together for the last hour of every Tuesday. (Expect frequent tasty treats through the post too!)
Remote first
What you bring to the table is way more important than where you sit at it. If you’ve got the stuff, you’re a Netspeaker - whether you’re working from home, our London office, your local hotdesk, or all three.
Diversity & inclusion
We’re committed to making Netspeak an equal & empowering workplace, for all.
Our internal D&I working group regularly explores ways we can better represent marginalised groups in our game, Sunshine Days. Meanwhile in the real world, we’re working hard to welcome and support staff from all backgrounds, races, beliefs, identities, sexualities & more.
We’re also dedicated to remaining open and transparent about what we’re doing to be inclusive at Netspeak, and what we still need to work on. Right now, we’re 60% female and minority genders, 30% LGBTQIA, and 20% BIPOC. Our senior team is 50% male/female and 8% BIPOC.
All work, all play
We’re an ambitious studio with big dreams! So pushing ourselves to do our best work is kind of a given. The pay-off? We really take care of our staff. Providing unlimited holiday, monthly learning sessions, early-finish Fridays & more 💛
About Netspeak Games
Hi 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games!
Netspeak was founded on the idea that great games start with great, happy teams. So from the very beginning, we’ve made it our mission to build a company with people at its heart.
Creativity, care, and community is our DNA. Here, we celebrate our differences. Cherish our imperfections. Seek and value diversity. We’re energetic, joyful makers, daring to do things differently. And we’ve worked hard to build a company culture that empowers our team to be their brilliant, best, authentic selves.
Pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity, we build beautifully-crafted wholesome games, designed to surprise & delight! 💛
Games Researcher
We're a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard with a 25 day minimum enforced. We play games together, we work hard together.
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