Finding the Job Is Harder Than Doing It. So I Made a UXR-Only Job Board.

A friend of mine has been looking for a UX research role. She is good. She has the experience, the portfolio, the references. And she has spent weeks applying. She talked it through with me, and the biggest issue, she said, was the search itself.

That is the part that got me. Not the rejections. The search itself.

Looking for UXR work is its own specific punishment, and it comes down to two things that should not be this hard.

The first is that we are called a million things.

Are you a UX Researcher. A User Researcher. A Design Researcher. Mixed Methods. Insights. Customer Insights. Research Ops. Product Researcher. Experience Researcher. Human Factors. Pick one term and you miss half the roles. Search all of them and you drown in everything that is not you, because researcher also belongs to hedge funds, postdocs, and chemists.

There is no agreed name for the thing we do. So there is no clean way to search for it.

The second is that the jobs are scattered to the wind.

They sit on a hundred different sites. Company portals, applicant tracking systems, aggregators, each with its own login, its own search that does not work, its own special way of wasting twenty minutes of your life. And here is the part that actually makes me angry. Most of these sites do not show you what is relevant. They show you what pays. The roles that float to the top floated because someone bought the spot, not because they fit what you do.

So you run the same broken search across fifteen tabs, sorting real roles from dead ones, UXR from not-UXR, fresh from filled-in-spring, and at the end of an afternoon you have a few links and a headache.

I watched my friend do exactly this. At some point I just got up and built the thing I wished she had.

It is a small job board. It does one thing on purpose. It pulls UXR roles and only UXR roles. Not whatever the algorithm got paid to put in front of you. User research, design research, mixed methods, research ops. The actual work. It keeps what is fresh and drops you straight onto the job description. No account. No funnel. Nobody paid to sit at the top, because there is no top to buy.

We are the people who study friction for a living. We can name the exact second a flow falls apart. And then we go look for our own jobs through the most broken flow in the industry. I cannot fix the market. I could at least try to fix the search.

It is free and it is on this site. I am not going to walk you through how it works. It is not that interesting, and that was never the point. The point is that finding the job should not be the hardest research project you run all year.

The market is brutal enough on its own. The least the search can do is get out of the way.

If it buys you back an afternoon and a hundred tabs, good. That was the entire idea. Send it to someone still stuck in the pile.

You can access it here: https://www.thevoiceofuser.com/find-a-job/

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