Digital Customer Experience - User Experience Researcher

Digital Customer Experience - User Experience Researcher

Job Description

Posted Wednesday 29 July 2026 at 00:00 | Expires Wednesday 12 August 2026 at 23:59

At Whitbread, we're transforming our digital products to create seamless, customer-centred experiences across our brands. We're looking for an experienced User Experience Researcher to champion the voice of the customer and ensure every product decision is grounded in evidence, insight, and real user needs.

Working as part of our Digital Product team, you'll partner with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers and Commercial stakeholders to uncover customer needs, validate solutions, and influence the future direction of our digital experiences

Role: UX Researcher

Contract Type: Full time, Permanent

Location: Chancery Lane, London

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Healthcare : Family BUPA healthcare
• Discounts : Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand

You’ll lead customer research across our digital products and journeys, ensuring that user needs and behaviours are at the heart of every product decision. From early-stage discovery through to delivery, you’ll plan and conduct a range of qualitative and quantitative research activities, including user interviews, usability testing, surveys, behavioural analysis and journey mapping. Working closely with Product Managers and Designers, you’ll uncover opportunities, validate concepts and help shape product strategy through evidence-based insights.

As a trusted voice of the customer, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams across Product, Design, Engineering and Commercial functions to influence decision-making and improve customer outcomes. You’ll translate complex findings into clear, actionable recommendations, create insight artefacts such as personas and customer journey maps, and help establish best-practice UX research standards, governance and ways of working. You’ll also champion accessibility, inclusive design and continuous learning, ensuring customer insight drives both innovation and commercial success.

What you’ll need:

• Significant experience in UX Research within complex digital product environments.
• Strong expertise across both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
• Experience influencing product strategy and senior stakeholders through evidence-based insight.
• Knowledge of behavioural analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics or Contentsquare.
• Experience building or developing UX research frameworks, tools, repositories and ways of working.

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