Grindr

Senior UX Researcher

Grindr • $120K — $145K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product research experience in a complex and fast-moving environment.
  • Strong foundation in mixed-method research with quantitative skills.
  • Experience researching sensitive topics with a focus on participant safety and privacy.
  • Proven ability to influence product decisions and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience with consumer products for large, diverse user bases, especially in social or health contexts.
  • Excellent communicator who simplifies complex findings for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own comprehensive research initiatives from inception to impactful delivery.
  • Design and implement mixed-method research combining qualitative and quantitative techniques.
  • Proactively identify key research opportunities and shape the research agenda.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Data Science teams in strategic discussions.
  • Lead sensitive research topics with methodological care and trust-building.
  • Enhance the team's quantitative research methods and frameworks.

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision: Full premium coverage for employees and partial for dependents.
  • Family Formation: Up to $300,000 for fertility and family-building support.
  • Retirement: 401(k) with a 6% match and immediate vesting.
  • Industry-leading gender-affirming care with extensive cost coverage.
  • Flexible vacation policy and two company-wide rest weeks annually.
  • Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting.
Full Job Description
About the Job:
  • Own end-to-end research for a defined set of product areas - from framing the right questions to delivering findings that drive real product and business decisions
  • Design and execute mixed-method research programs, combining qualitative depth with quantitative rigor to produce insights that hold up across scale
  • Proactively identify the highest-leverage research opportunities within your product areas, building a research agenda that gets ahead of the roadmap rather than responding only to incoming requests.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data Science as a peer strategic voice - shaping roadmaps, surfacing risks, and challenging assumptions with user evidence
  • Lead research on sensitive and personal topics - including sexual health, men's wellness, and LGBTQ+ experiences - with the trust-building and methodological care these areas demand
  • Expand the team's quantitative research capabilities, introducing scalable methods and frameworks that raise the bar for how UXR operates at Grindr

Role Requirements:
  • 5+ years of product research experience, with a track record of independently owning research within a complex, fast-moving product environment
  • Strong mixed-method foundation with demonstrated quantitative depth - surveys at scale, conjoint analysis, statistical analysis, or equivalent
  • Experience conducting research on sensitive or personal topics, with a demonstrated ability to build trust, ensure participant safety, protect participant privacy and navigate nuanced subject matter with care
  • Proven cross-functional influence - you've shaped product decisions, not just informed them, working as a peer to PM and Design rather than a downstream service
  • Experience working on consumer products with a large and diverse user base, ideally in social, dating, health, or community-driven contexts
  • Clear, compelling communication of research findings to both working teams and senior stakeholders - you translate complexity into clarity

You May Thrive in This Role If You:
  • Thrive with real ownership and a wide aperture - you're energized by broad scope, not slowed down by it
  • Are AI-native or rapidly becoming so - you actively use AI tools in your workflow and are always looking for new ways to leverage them
  • Care deeply about the communities you research - you bring genuine curiosity and respect to work that touches people's identities, health, and relationships
  • Are comfortable operating in a lean, high-trust environment where you define the research agenda, not just execute against it
  • Move fluidly between strategic framing and hands-on execution - you're as comfortable in a research session as you are in a product strategy conversation


Benefits and Perks:
  • Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
  • Family Formation Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
  • Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
  • Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
  • Gender-Affirming Care : Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
  • Time Off & Rest Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
  • Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch

About Grindr

Grindr is a location-based social networking and online dating application for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. The app was one of the first geosocial dating apps and was launched in 2009. Grindr is available in over 190 countries and has over 27 million users. The app is owned by San Vicente Acquisition LLC, a company based in West Hollywood, California. Grindr has faced criticism for its handling of user data and for facilitating the spread of sexually transmitted infections.
Learn more about Grindr
Size
100 employees
Market Cap
$836.3 million
Industry
Hospitality & Recreation
Founded
2008
NASDAQ
GRND
* Ladders Estimates

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