UX Researcher
This is a unique opportunity to build a world-class product in wearable and sports-tech industry. Experience how you truly make an impact as your work will reach thousands of users in 60+ countries.
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The mission of the UX researcher position at HackMotion is to increase our user satisfaction by working towards improving long term retention of our product.
You will join our product team and work on improving the user experience for the app for HackMotion wearable HW products. You'll collaborate with a skilled UI designer a product manager and three top talent developers. You'll take a key role to better understand unmet users needs, identify areas for improvement in the current user journey, take ownership of our qualitative user feedback channels and form hypothesies to answer based on product requirements.
You will closely collaborate with the whole product team, help discover opportunities for improvement, propose experiments to address identified user journey isses and see through these experiments to see if they worked or not. Your success will be defined by our ability to improve overall user satisfaction and long term retention of the product.
Your tasks:
- Gather qualitative user feedback based on specificly defined hypothesies
- Take ownership of defining hypothesies/questions we need to answer based on product requirements.
- Design and run usability studies (i.e., identify potential solution options for a stated user need and design experiments that help elicit the most viable solution for users)
- Take ownership of all of our feedback channels and share learnings with the rest of the team
- Based on gathered feedback propose experiments that we need to run to fix identified issues/opportunities.
What we expect:
- Experience in user research methodologies (Surveys,interviews,usability testing, prototype testing, etc.) would be considered a plus.
- Ability to define key hypothesies, create and execute a research plan and synthesize your findings into meaningful, actionable insights
- Great English communication skills (both verbally and in written form).
What you can expect:
- Company stock options (own part of the company);
- Work on truly exciting applications related to motion capture and IoT;
- Experience how global wearable HW products are invented, and grow together with the company;
- Join a profitable & fast-growing tech company with clients in more than 60 countries;
- Friendly and open company culture (internally we share everything related to building the company);
- We work in an office & remote mix (we don’t need you at a desk for a fixed time, we need the work to be done);
- Salary 2000 – 3500 EUR before taxes, depending on the skills and experience.
- Locations
- Rīga
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Our selection process
1
🤝 Intro call
After your application, we'll set up an open and friendly ~15 min call to talk details about the position and see if there is a mutual interest to go forward. You will be able to ask questions and clarifications about the position or the company.
2
🕵️ In depth interview
We will go through the details of your previous experience. You will be able to share the details for each position/project you have taken part. This usually takes ~1h. Depending on the position we might give a homework task at the end of the interview.
3
👩🎤 Cultural fit interview
Congrats on getting this far! You will meet with the founding team and we will openly talk about the goals of the company and how the success of the particular role is defined. We will discuss your career as well as personal goals.
4
🎉 Welcome to the team!
Impressive, on average only 1-2% of applicants get invited to HackMotion team. Get ready for an epic learning journey to conquer the sports tech industry. You will start with a 90-day probation period where we will do our best to help you settle in, understand your role in the team, and succeed with the key objectives for your role.
What we do
We believe an active lifestyle is crucial in sustaining physical and mental health in today's knowledge-work-dominated lifestyle. Our vision is that tech and digital training aids can substantially reduce the learning curve and improve engagement in every single sport at all levels.
HackMotion helps amateur athletes to improve much faster in skill-based sports. We use proprietary wearable motion capture hardware and custom-built software applications to measure movement mechanics and provide metrics, personalized insights, and drills. Our industry-leading products in golf & baseball are built in collaboration with the world's top coaches & athletes. We currently have clients in 60+ counties. Our goal is to be the world's No. 1 in the coaching wearable industry.
Read a full article about HackMotion on Labs Of Latvia.
Additional benefits
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Employee stock options
You will directly benefit from the company growth as you will be able to become a co-owner of HackMotion. We give company stock options to every full-time team member.
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Flexible & remote work
We don’t need you at a desk for fixed hours, we just need the work to be done. Most of our colleagues prefer an office & remote mix. -
Career growth
Each of our positions are growing together with the company. We have people who started as part-time assistants and now are managing the production of thousands of HackMotion products. -
Free golf lessons
During the golfing season, we do regular team golf practices, where we improve our own skills as well as experience our products in the field.
Our journey so far
Company founded
HackMotion was created to improve the experience of learning skill-based activities with a virtual coach. Our early prototypes did full-body motion capture and were tested in extreme environments such as snowboarding and even skydiving in vertical wind tunnels.
First product launch
The first HackMotion product was built and launched in 2018. It was targeted to the golf professional niche - golf coaches and advanced players.
HackMotion adoption among golf pros
HackMotion golf product quickly gains traction and gets widespread adoption among top industry professionals. These include true superstars, such as the coaches of Rory McIlroy (former world rank No. 1) and Dustin Johnson (winner of 6 world cups).
HackMotion Golf Player version launch
Based on learnings gained working with golf professionals the HackMotion Golf Player version was launched and quickly gained momentum. Within the first year, thousands of products were shipped across 5 continents allowing rapid scaling of the business.
Becoming a global sports wearable leader
Our ambition for upcoming years is to continue significant expansion in the golf consumer segment as well as expand to the next niches such as baseball (where we already have launched a product). Our goal is to be the world's No. 1 in virtual coaching wearables.
Our office
Most of our team members work in a remote-office mix, however, we make sure that we have a great & creative place to meet and interact with each other. However, this does not mean that we have a standard boring office. Our office is located in the vary city center in the scenic Kronvalda Park. We have literally one of the greatest views in Riga. We share the building with The Art Academy of Latvia, so there are always creative attractions in the hallway.
Also, we have an indoor golf simulator to always be able to test our products as well as have a little fun.
Rīga
About HackMotion
HackMotion helps amateur athletes to improve much faster in skill-based sports. We use proprietary wearable motion capture hardware and custom-built software application to measure movement mechanics and provide coaching feedback, drills, and statistics. Our industry-leading products in golf & baseball are built in collaboration with the world's top coaches & athletes. We currently have clients in 60+ counties.
We see a future where tech and digital training aids will be a crucial part of training in every single sport at all levels. Our goal is to be the world's No. 1 in this industry.
Want to learn more about the company?
1. Read the Labs of Latvia article featuring HackMotion. (in Latvian)
2. Listen to The Pursuit of Scrappiness Podcast featuring HackMotion.
3. Watch the European Hit Radio interview with CEO, Atis Hermanis. (in Latvian)
Click HERE to learn more about how we operate.
UX Researcher
This is a unique opportunity to build a world-class product in wearable and sports-tech industry. Experience how you truly make an impact as your work will reach thousands of users in 60+ countries.
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