Seeking Senior/Staff UX Research roles (IC track, not people management) in mission-driven spaces — health, education, financial empowerment, or values-driven consumer products. I thrive building or scaling research practices from scratch, with 10+ years of mixed-methods experience in regulated, high-stakes environments shaping product and policy. Remote or hybrid preferred.
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Archana Vaidyanathan
@archanavaidyanathan
I lead AI-powered UX research that shapes product strategy and launches.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
At Meta, I lead research for privacy, risk, and compliance systems, including agentic AI risk-review experiences. My iterative usability research helped unblock the Risk Review MVP, reducing material risk failures by five points and poor submission experiences by 44%.
I've built research practices from the ground up at Hover, guided enterprise B2B product planning at SAP Labs, and informed Google Photos strategy. I also build scalable research infrastructure—from AI-assisted synthesis and usability evaluation tools to recruitment pipelines, insight repositories, metrics, and cross-functional research coaching.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Current
Led foundational and strategic research for privacy, risk, and compliance systems, influencing executive decisions and product roadmaps. Conducted iterative usability research with 35+ users across 4 user profiles, reducing material risk failure rates by 5 points and poor submission experiences by 44%.
Built the entire UX research function from scratch for an AR-assisted property measurement platform, establishing methodologies, tools, and participant recruitment systems. Coached cross-functional teams to conduct independent research and initiated the insight repository.
Led research across enterprise B2B software, delivering usability evaluations, interviews, ethnographic studies, and experiments to influence long-term product planning. Drove UXR enablement by creating educational materials and coaching product teams on research methods.
Led research for Google Photos informing long-term product strategy, contributing to a product that reached 200M monthly active users and automatically applied 2 trillion labels in its first year.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Teachers College, Columbia University
Master of Arts, Cognitive Studies in Education
Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies in Education with a focus on Intelligent Technologies.
University of California, Irvine
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with Honors.
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UX ResearchStrategic ResearchMixed Methods ResearchResearch GenerationEvaluative ResearchUsability TestingConcept TestsSurveyA B TestingSegmentationResearch StrategyResearch OperationsResearch DemocratizationParticipant RecruitmentNotebookLMGeminiClaudeManusFigmaFigJamDesign ThinkingFacilitationExecutive CommunicationB2B SaaS ResearchMarket ResearchAirtableEnjoyHQUser TestingAgentic AIUnblocked
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