Lead UX Researcher, Growth

Match Group

Director of UX Research for Hinge's dating app, leading research to drive product strategy and enhance user connections. Managing a team while focusing on impactful user insights and data-driven product vision.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $197,500 - $237,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead research strategy: Build and drive the research roadmap for Growth product teams, ensuring that research informs product decision making and drives product strategy.
Develop and execute end-to-end research: Conduct end-to-end research using appropriate methods that range from strategic to iterative and evaluative to help the team achieve goals.
Growth experience: including research into international expansion, monetization and/or merchandising.
Building inclusive products: Experience thinking through different audiences’ needs, pain points and behaviors, including working with accessibility needs in mind.
Being a strategic cross-functional partner: Work in close collaboration with other researchers and cross-functional partners (i.e., product managers, designers, data scientists, customer experience, marketing and brand strategy) to identify key research questions and prioritize projects in the short and long term.
Deliver high-impact insights at velocity: Generate actionable insights that help teams make decisions and build momentum towards our mission.
Champion culture and clarity: Model honest, empathetic communication and help cross-functional partners navigate ambiguity with confidence and care.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of user research experience, including 2-3 years of experience in a consumer-facing product research role.
Experience working on monetization, subscriptions or new revenue streams or zero-to-one products.
Mixed methods with a strong quantitative (e.g., survey, experimental) skills and expertise with measuring sentiment in experiment frameworks.
Proficient in data manipulation, analysis, and dashboard creation with R, SPSS, and/or Looker (or similar statistical software.)
Strong communicator, committed to telling clear and compelling stories with data.
Proactive at building and sustaining trusting, successful relationships with cross-functional partners (e.g. data science, customer experience, product management, design, engineering, marketing.)
Eager to learn from, collaborate with, and mentor other researchers.
Champions team culture in authentic, courageous, and empathic ways.

Benefits

Comp & perks

401(k) Matching: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
Professional Growth: Get an annual Learning & Development stipend once you’ve been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6000 courses, starting your first day.
Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents.)
Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide a stipend towards fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.
Date Stipend: All Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates– Romantic or otherwise. Hinge Premium is also free for employees and their loved ones.
ERGs: We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Raices, Women/Nonbinary, Parents —that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.

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Hard Skills & Tools

User ResearchQuantitative ResearchSurvey DesignExperimental DesignData AnalysisDashboard CreationStatistical SoftwareRSPSSLooker

Soft Skills

Empathetic CommunicationRelationship BuildingMentoringProactive CollaborationCourageous Leadership