Design skill
User Research jobs
Learning what users actually need through interviews, observation, and analysis, rather than assuming. Upstream of every other design decision. Below: the 4 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What User Research unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Product Designer | 525 | salary |
| UX Designer | 245 | salary |
| UX Researcher | 37 | salary |
| Conversation Designer | 9 | — |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as User Research.
- Usability Testingtogether in 17
- Wireframingtogether in 20
- Interaction Designtogether in 32
- Visual Designtogether in 19
- Design Thinkingtogether in 7
- Researchtogether in 9
Quick answers
What is User Research?
Learning what users actually need through interviews, observation, and analysis, rather than assuming. Upstream of every other design decision. On our board User Research counts as a design skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for User Research?
Quite a few. Right now 816 open roles on our board sit in the 4 occupations where User Research shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Product Designer, with 525 open roles today.
What skills pair with User Research?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside User Research are Usability Testing (together in 17), Wireframing (together in 20), Interaction Design (together in 32).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.