Ux Researcher

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Santa Rosalia-Maqueda, Malaga

This role is for a UX Researcher at Caterpillar, focusing on understanding user needs and translating them into actionable recommendations to improve products and services. The role involves executing user research studies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and synthesizing user feedback. While the company mentions AI capabilities, this specific role is centered on UX research and product improvement, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand business needs and designs appropriate research studies to generate focused insights.
  2. Plan and conduct user research (surveys, in-depth interviews, field studies, focus groups, and concept testing) with support from senior researchers.
  3. Synthesize real user behavior and feedback into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for design and product teams to improve our product and service features and/or develop new ones.
  4. Support research operations: documentation, note-taking, analysis, and stakeholder presentations.
  5. Collaborate cross-functionally with Design, Product, Marketing, Sales, and Data/Analytics teams.

Skills

Required

  • Working knowledge of Human-Centered Design (HCD) principles and UX research methods.
  • Ability to analyze data and present recommendations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Familiarity with Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and UI design basics.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Market Research, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Cognitive Science, Information Science) or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience applying user research in product/service teams; ability to facilitate common methods and produce clear deliverables.

Nice to have

  • A balanced understanding of strategy, research, and interaction.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, cross-functional environment.
  • Experience conducting customer research in an applied setting.
  • Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative research methods, behavioral analysis, and statistics is preferred.
  • Experience using standard market research tools.
  • Ability to conduct both physical and digital customer research.
  • Excellent working knowledge of principles of experiment design is desired.
  • Good interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to create compelling presentations and convey insights and design solutions through storytelling across all levels.
  • Desirable is flexibility/adaptability (ability to change direction based upon team and stakeholder consensus).