#55 - So You Want to Be In Research Ops? How Roy Olende of Zapier Made The Switch
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English - December 08, 2020 19:52 - 39 minutes - 72.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsTechnology research product ux design product management research ops uxr ethnography customer interviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
There is a growing need for research operations.
As more companies embrace the importance of user research and scale their UXR efforts, a dedicated ops function is quickly becoming a necessity.
Research ops—which involves things like participant recruitment, research processes, and programs to help non-researchers do better research—can be a career path for many different kinds of people. Roy has worked with ops pros who come from traditional business operations, marketing, UX, and of course, research. He says the key to succeeding in a research ops role isis to being comfortable with blazing a new trail and taking joy in creating processes that work.
Roy talked about…
How to decide if research ops is a good career for youWhat he does on a day to day basisHow research ops works at Zapier📖 Read more: Research Ops: What It Is, Why It's So Important, and How to Get Started
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About our guest
Roy Olende has been involved in user research and service design for nearly a decade. He is currently the Head of UX Research at Zapier, where he launched the company’s Research Operations practice to support user research across the entire company and accelerate product development.