▷ High Salary UX Researcher- Discovery

About Times Internet: At Times Internet, we create premium digital products that simplify and enhance the lives of millions. As India's largest digital products company, we have a significant presence across a wide range of categories, including News, Sports, Fintech, and Enterprise solutions. Our portfolio features market-leading and iconic brands such as TOI, ET, NBT, Cricbuzz, Times Prime, Times Card, Indiatimes, Whatshot, Abound, Willow TV, Techgig and Times Mobile among many more. Each of these products is crafted to enrich your experiences and bring you closer to your interests and aspirations. As an equal opportunity employer, Times Internet strongly promotes inclusivity and diversity. We are proud to have achieved overall gender pay parity in 2018, verified by an independent audit conducted by Aon Hewitt. We are driven by the excitement of new possibilities and are committed to bringing innovative products, ideas, and technologies to help people make the most of every day. Join us and take us to the next level Role Summary We are building Times NRI, a focused, high-trust platform designed to solve the emotionally urgent and operationally complex needs of affluent NRIs. Our belief is simple: discovery is not a phase, it is a discipline. We operate in a model of continuous discovery, and this role sits at the heart of it. As the Discovery & Product Research Lead, you will work directly with the Business Head and product leadership to drive deep, end-to-end discovery across the platform lifecycle. You will blend qualitative insight with quantitative rigour, test assumptions before committing to build, and deliver customer and market intelligence that directly informs product strategy. This is a high-agency individual contributor role, ideal for someone who thrives on ownership, clarity through ambiguity, and fast-paced iteration. You will also work cross-functionally across Times Internet businesses to enable user testing, feedback loops, and internal collaboration. Key Responsibilities End-to-End Product Discovery Plan and execute continuous discovery efforts to validate or challenge product assumptions Conduct qualitative interviews, ethnographic research, and usability testing with target NRI users Design, launch, and analyse quantitative surveys to test hypotheses at scale Identify discovery opportunities at feature, service, and strategy levels Cross-Functional Collaboration Work closely with the Business Head to shape and test key product bets Partner with product managers, product designers, and engineering teams to translate discovery insights into prioritised decisions Collaborate across Times Internet teams to recruit users, run pilots, and deploy experiments Rapid Experimentation and Execution Use AI-enabled no-code tools to build test pages, forms, and emailers to validate ideas Deploy lightweight experiments, lead collection flows, and rapid landing pages Translate product strategy into testable concepts independently and with speed Insight Synthesis and Strategic Alignment Organise research findings into clear, actionable summaries, reports, or dashboards Share insights regularly with product, design, and leadership teams Influence prioritisation decisions by anchoring them in validated user insight Stakeholder Engagement Build and manage relationships across product, design, growth, content, and strategy functions Coordinate inputs across teams and ensure shared alignment on discovery learnings Advocate for a user-first, insight-led culture throughout the organisation Ideal Candidate Profile 4 to 7 years of experience in product research, user research, product discovery, or UX strategy Proven ability to lead research projects independently across both qualitative and quantitative methods Experience using AI-based no-code tools to build prototypes, experiments, and workflows Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, design, engineering, and marketing teams Excellent communication and synthesis skills, with a strong ability to turn insights into clear action Self-driven, proactive, and able to manage ambiguity with structure and clarity Bonus: experience working with NRI or globally distributed user bases Bonus: exposure to direct to consumer apps in domains such as fintech, healthcare or real estate Why This Role Matters Every strategic decision begins with insight. This role is at the core of how Times NRI understands, validates, and solves real user problems. As our Discovery Lead, you will ensure that what we build is not just feasible, but truly valuable.