Are you a service-minded person? Do you have a passion for project sales and customer support? Are you good at explaining UX methodology to others?

We’re seeking a remote full-time ‘sales and customer support’ person to handle all sales inquiries for Baymard’s UX Audit service, along with conducting occasional UX audits yourself.

Baymard Institute is an independent e-commerce UX research organization – beyond conducting our large-scale research studies for our Premium subscription platform, we also do client-specific work in the form of ‘UX Audits.’

This is a remote full-time position (preferred working hours is “early” if you are on the US East Coast or “late” if you are in GMT).

The Job

You will have three distinct job tasks in this role: ‘Audit Sales and Support’ (45% of your week), ‘Resource Planning’ (15%), and ‘Conducting your own client UX Audits’ (40%):

Depending on your qualifications several other roles will be possible over time (e.g., handling Baymard’s proactive marketing efforts, service strategy, etc.)

Qualifications

We’re looking for the following qualifications for this role:

7/7 Motivation for sales and customer support – you are a service-minded person with a flair and passion for sales and customer support. 2-3 hours per day is responding to inquiries from new leads via email and video conference. (Note: all our leads have found Baymard themselves and inquire about our audit service on their own. Baymard doesn’t do any cold-sales or any proactive marketing campaigns. Hence all leads are motivated, and the process therefore has more character of “servicing our leads,” rather than “selling” them.)

6/7 Ability to explain UX services and methodology to leads and customers in writing and verbally – our leads are anyone from C-levels with no UX background to 10+ year UX veterans, they come from companies of all sizes (2-person startup to Fortune 500), from all sectors (websites selling high-fashion, to auto insurance, to B2B pharmaceutical supplies). So, it’s critical you are able to quickly understand the client context, and adjust your language and clearly explain what Baymard’s UX methodology & auditing can and cannot do for them.

6/7 Ability to handle a constant stream of ongoing projects and loose ends at the same time – beyond the audit project you are conducting for a specific client, expect daily 5-20 emails that need answering and 2-3 calls with new leads, and 2-4 questions from your UX audit team colleagues about the projects you’ve sold. You need to be able to juggle this type of workflow, while still being precise in the individual client communication (e.g., not messing up “mobile site vs. mobile app” in a project description written in between two calls).

3/7 Resource management & planning – you’re good at internal planning of resources within a small team. A typical audit is 5-15 workdays, and there are five auditors, but some audits require multiple auditors or specific auditors. With client deadlines on top of this, laying the “audit pipeline puzzle” will be something you do a couple of times per week.

3/7 Understanding of UX and user behavior – you’ll spend 30-40% of your time auditing a client’s website’s UX across Baymard’s 700+ parameters/heuristics. This will require a decent prior understanding of UX and web user behavior.

3/7 Finding attention to detail exciting – in each audit we analyze the client site across 700+ UX parameters, each of these has 4-7 defined implementation nuances the audit must account for. This requires an extreme level of attention to detail and excitement for exploring the smallest of UI nuances of a site.

4/7 Ability to communicate UX in writing – the primary audit deliverable is the 50-150 page audit report. This report relies on Baymard’s vast UX research catalog, but at the same time is a bespoke consulting project – you as an Auditor have to be good at accurately describing complex flows and user behaviors in writing. The audit reports are often read by a diverse team (managers, UXers, designers and developers) – they all need to understand the described UX issue, often in just 4 paragraphs of text.

(Each of the above qualifications is weighted, 7 is highest)

(Note that this is not a UX Designer or a UX Researcher job, if that’s what you are looking for, then sign up for our job alert as we do hire in those roles from time to time. The same applies if you are a good UX Auditor but don’t like the customer sales and support aspect that dominates this position).

How to Apply

If you’re interested in this position please send the following documents:

Send the above to [email protected]

Deadline is February 3rd – but apply as soon as possible, as applications will be processed on an ongoing basis. A few selected candidates will be assigned a paid hiring test.

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Sincerely,
Jamie & Christian
Founders of the Baymard Institute