We’re currently looking for a Principal Design Researcher to lead the research practice for one of our top-tier clients — a integral leader in the Health industry — shaping the products and services that empower clinicians, patients and care teams at the moments that matter most.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the research agenda, aligned with product and business priorities.
- Establish a multi-horizon research roadmap spanning generative, evaluative and strategic studies.
- Champion a human‑centred lens across the entire product lifecycle.
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of design researchers embedded across product squads — coordinating capacity and prioritisation across concurrent initiatives.
- Foster a culture of rigour, curiosity and inclusive research practice.
- Lead complex, ambiguous research programmes from brief to insight, applying mixed methods (ethnographic, contextual, participatory, evaluative) appropriate to each challenge.
- Ensure regulatory and ethical compliance in all research activities.




- Translate research into actionable insights that shape strategy — not just design — presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders and leadership.
- Partner with product management, design, clinical affairs and marketing to embed research throughout discovery and development.
- Define shared research frameworks and artefacts (personas, journey maps, opportunity spaces).
- Build and steward a living research repository, developing standards, templates and methodological guidance for the team.

Qualifications
- 5-8 years of design research or UX research experience, with at least 3 years in a principal, lead or staff‑level role.
- Demonstrated ability to define and execute strategic research programmes in complex, regulated environments — healthcare, medtech or diagnostics experience strongly preferred.
- Deep expertise across qualitative methods, comfortable integrating quantitative signals and working with data science partners.
- Proven

📌 Principal Researcher (España)
🏢 Estudio Nacar
📍 España