Senior User Researcher (Qualitative)

PERM USER RESEARCHER (QUALITATIVE) | SOVEREIGN AI SCALEUP | UP TO £75K

Few&Far are partnered with a Sovereign AI Scaleup who are looking to hire a Permanent Qualitative User Researcher to join their team as they continue to scale.

Role Duties:

• Working with at the forefront of sovereign AI platforms for high-assurance, government, and complex enterprise environments - eg clients in the Defence, Government, Public Sector, and other highly regulated industries
• Own and independently execute 0-1 discovery research programs end-to-end (fieldwork, participant recruitment, desk research, user interviews, surveys, workflow mapping)
• Set up scalable ResearchOps (consent frameworks, data handling, repositories, standardised UR workflows)
• Active integration of AI tools (Claude, Miro AI etc) to speed up research velocity without sacrificing methodological rigour
• Deliver qualitative insights for high-touch operational workflows where data access is restricted

Essential Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience / senior-level in qualitative user research
• Mastery of discovery methods: contextual inquiry, depth interviews, JTBD, workflow mapping, synthesis (evaluative-only research backgrounds wont be the right fit)
• Genuine, hands-on AI-in-research workflow experience (not just basic ChatGPT use)
• Self-starter capable of sourcing your own participants and building research ops infrastructure from scratch
• MUST be eligible for SC Clearance and happy to undergo clearance if successful in the role

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in defence / government / national security / public sector
• Active SC Clearance

Salary, Benefits & Logistics

• Salary up to £75K & eligibility for equity
• Remote-first UK wide with travel to client sites, or Belfast hybrid
• Industry-leading working pattern including 4-day work weeks during summer/December and early Friday finishes (adding ~30 extra days off per year)

If this role is of interest, please apply to this advert!