Ask any product team why a feature flopped and you'll usually hear guesses. Someone should actually be talking to the people who used it. That's the gap a User Researcher fills, and Naukri Mitra is looking for one to do it remotely — part-time or full-time, whichever fits where you are right now.
What You'd Be Doing
Most of your week centers on getting real signal from real users. That means running interviews, watching people struggle through usability tests, and turning what you observe into something product and design teams can actually act on. It's not a role where you file a report and move on. Teams here expect you in the room — virtually — when decisions get made, not just handed a summary after the fact.
Day to day, expect to:
- Plan and run user interviews, surveys, and usability testing sessions
- Analyze research data and translate it into clear, actionable recommendations
- Sit alongside product and design as they decide what to build next, not after the fact
- Identify friction points in current products and flag what's worth fixing first
- Present findings in a way stakeholders outside the research team can actually use
- Track ongoing user behavior trends that might shift product priorities
A search for
remote user researcher jobs turns up plenty of listings that treat research as an afterthought bolted onto product work. This one doesn't. Research shapes decisions here, not just decorates them after the fact.
What You Bring
A few years of hands-on user research experience matters more than a specific degree, though a background in psychology, HCI, or a related field certainly helps. You should be comfortable running both qualitative work — interviews, usability tests — and pulling useful insights from quantitative data when it's available. Communication matters as much as method here, since findings that stay locked in a research team's head never change a product roadmap. And since this is remote, you'll need to manage your own research calendar without someone standing over your shoulder reminding you what's due.
Extra Credit
- Experience with research repositories or tools like Dovetail, UserTesting, or similar platforms
- A portfolio where you can point to a specific decision your research changed
- Some history working on both B2B and consumer-facing products
- Enough statistics grounding to handle a larger quantitative study when one comes up
Browse
user experience researcher jobs 2026 for a while, and you'll notice this posting skews toward people who've already put in the reps. Strong junior researchers with a sharp portfolio can still make a case for themselves, but this isn't set up as a first job in the field.
Pay and Schedule
The role pays
$135,000 per year, with both part-time and full-time arrangements open depending on what you're looking for. Fully remote, no location requirement tied to it.
Culture Notes
When a product team debates a change, the research findings usually get pulled up before anyone commits to a direction. That's less a stated value and more just how meetings tend to go here. Requirements and open questions live in shared docs that people actually read, so much of what would otherwise be a call gets settled in a comment thread instead. If someone owes you an answer, they're usually the one giving it to you, not a manager relaying it secondhand.
Where This Goes
Researchers who stay tend to move toward lead or principal researcher roles, setting research strategy across multiple product areas instead of running individual studies. Some shift into research operations, building the systems and processes that make the whole research function work better. Both paths build on the judgment you develop running studies here.
Apply
Send your resume along with a portfolio or a few examples of research that led to a real product decision. We're more interested in what changed because of your work than a list of methods you've used.
