Doodle
Neuroscience, HCI & Cognitive Research Lead (all genders)
Berlin, DE
No sponsorshipDetected 48 days ago
Data ScienceData VisualizationAgentic AIStatisticsFigmaUX ResearchProduct ManagementProduct StrategyLoad TestingResearchExperimental DesignLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Your goal is to systematically decode how humans perceive time, experience decision fatigue during group time coordination, and interact with automated time-creation systems.
Responsibilities
- Your role is to define the fundamental cognitive thresholds that govern complex data visualization in coordination systems, equipping our core design and engineering teams with the foundational interaction rules needed to prevent cognitive overload.
- Deep expertise in advanced experimental design, statistical analysis, quantitative usability testing, eye-tracking methodologies, cognitive load testing, and longitudinal behavioral studies.
- You do not need a manager to scope your projects, build your test environments, or interpret your data.
- You own the cognitive research roadmap end-to-end.
- Creation of a finalized, adopted "Doodle Cognitive Design Manual" used daily by product design teams to ship interfaces that respect human attention.
- You will turn hard cognitive metrics into concrete design principles that our product and UX teams can execute immediately.
- Applied Neuroscience & Cognitive Research Design and execute rigorous experiments evaluating user attention allocation, interruption costs, and information processing limits.
- HCI & High-Density Interface Design Analyze and optimize complex, high-density time coordination interfaces to minimize visual noise and cognitive friction.
- Develop clear, neuroscience-informed guidelines for font hierarchy, information chunking, and layout structures that reduce user anxiety during high-stakes availability matching.
Requirements
- Years of Experience & Environments 7 to 12+ years of post-qualification experience as an applied researcher, product strategist, or interaction architect.
- Must have a proven track record operating within fast-paced commercial digital product companies (SaaS, B2B/B2C productivity tools, collaboration platforms, or high-velocity tech labs).
- Purely academic profiles or individuals who have only worked in traditional UX agency settings will not have the required product exposure for this role.
Skills
- Strategic Research Leadership Establish and track quantitative cognitive KPIs to measure interaction quality across all core workflows.
- Embed behavioral evaluation frameworks directly into the quarterly product roadmap prioritization process.
- Identify and mitigate behavioral and cognitive risks in product feature specs before they reach engineering development.
- Translate neuro-cognitive theories of habit formation and collective coordination into practical product loops.
Visa & Work Authorization
- At this time, we are unable to sponsor visa for this position or support with relocation
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