Games User Researcher at Santa Monica Studio in Los Angeles, California, United States

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Join the award-winning team that created God of War

Santa Monica Studio is seeking a talented Games User Researcher for the development of a new unannounced title!

As a Games User Researcher, you will be an accelerator to the feedback loop between players and game developers. You’ll also assist our efforts to affect and delight players and our fan base.

Responsibilities

Keep up to date with current and future project updates

Review design documentation and playable content
Attend regular design, user research, and QA meetings
Collaborate with Design to define relevant research goals

Prepare and execute internal user testing and playtests

Coordinate participant recruitment and test setup
Prepare and validate data collection methods
Moderate focused 1:1 user tests and group playtests

Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data sets into meaningful insights

Code and distill qualitative feedback into useful data points
Strategically leverage game telemetry and gameplay video recordings
Create written and visual data reports

Requirements

2+ years of experience in games user research
Degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, HCI, or Game Design
Strong interest and passion for video games

Preferred Experience

Experience working on story driven action-adventure games

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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate.

$48.75 - $73.10 USD

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About The Company

Santa Monica Studio

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Our studio is composed of a group of diverse, ambitious, highly collaborative creatives who empower one another, while working as a team to deliver high quality narrative-driven PlayStation experiences. With origins spanning the globe - from Brazil to Poland to small town USA, we are home to over 250 world class developers who strive to push the medium forward with every creative decision.

Every team has a story and, at the heart of our story, we are committed to greatness and steadfast in our craft of developing unforgettable in-game experiences that inspire our players. Beyond that, though, we are driven by something much larger…by a desire to develop “stories” of greatness for each and every team member. Making a game is a massive undertaking. Between QA, Art, Design, Programming, Production, Sound and every department in between, we are all responsible for connecting with each other's greatest skills, while working towards a common vision.

Together, we sow seeds of possibility. Whether you are an intern or an industry veteran, creativity rules here. At our studio we recognize that great ideas can come from anyone. Traversing a new mythological world on a boat. A single camera shot for an entire game. A powerful recalling axe. A companion AI known as “boy” fighting like a god. These are just some of the bold ideas that were not simply lit by an individual light bulb...they were forged from idea, to paper, to code in a collaborative effort by creatives of all disciplines on a journey to reinvent a franchise.