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Iryna Kostiuchok

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Last update: 08.01.2024

UX Researcher | Mixed-Methods Research | Product Development | Driving Product Experience with User

Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Full Professional) | Russian (Native or Bilingual) | Ukrainian (Native or Bilingual)

Keywords

User Experience (UX) Research Data Analysis Applied Research Business To Business Marketing Reputation Management Product Design Quantitative Research Sustainability + 2 more keywords

Attachments

IKostiuchok-CV-UX-Researcher-2_080124.pdf

Skills

I am a UX Researcher with 16 years of experience in data analytics, qualitative and quantitative research, and user-centric methodologies.
I have collaborated with global research agencies and delivered in-house research for B2B and B2C enterprises. My expertise spans various research domains: UX, marketing, communications, reputation management, sustainable development, and ESG.
After years of studying how people perceive a company, evaluating its reputation, assessing the strength and health of its brand, and understanding the internal social climate, I redirected my skills toward user experience.
My strength lies in translating research insights into actionable strategies and shaping long-term product visions. Being the Head of Research and Analytics, I've had strong analytical, problem-solving, time-managing, and mentoring skills.
I excel in collaborating with cross-functional teams while also possessing the ability to work independently.
Eager to contribute my skills and dedicated to making a tangible difference in the user experience.

Project history

02/2023 - 11/2023
Senior UX Researcher
MGID

As the only UXR in Product Design, I ensured that our user needs inspired our 2023 product roadmap and met
business requirements. My role feeds into a new product release that improves global user experience and
solves problems in user journeys to deliver the best product engagement. Responsibilities:
* Top achievement: found product improvement solutions that reduce complexity, increase the efficiency of the
platform use, and improve clients' activation rate.
* Created a UX culture: enhanced the user experience research culture and made product development more
well-informed by implementing user insights into the product development process. As the only UXR, I had to lead,
implement and conduct UX Research projects and activities across the company with a great degree of autonomy.
* Synthesised the findings from the surveys, feedback, experiments, usability tests and interviews to identify the key
patterns, issues, challenges, and insights for inclusion in the project development iterations across the product
life-cycle. Product strategy definition and identification of new opportunities based on research insights.
* Presented chosen research methods, tools, studies, and results findings to a multiple set of stakeholders:
Executives, UX Designers, Product Managers and other team members.

09/2019 - 04/2022
Head of Research and Analytics
DTEK, STRATEGIC HOLDING (Expert Center)

The role involved creating a strategy that increased the brand awareness, reputation index, and loyalty indicator
of the company, incorporating both strategic and tactical measures. Responsibilities:
* Top achievement: elevated the company's reputation from a weak standing to the average level of European energy
enterprises by successfully advocating research mixing methods and innovative research tools integration,
diversification of audience segments, and communication channel effectiveness KPIs.
* Leadership and initiative of multiple research, monitoring and tracking projects (total around €500K, around 30K
respondents in parallel projects) from research design to recruitment, field study, and post-launch evaluation.
* Research culture change: created a data-driven culture by collecting and analysing data, testing hypotheses,
finding patterns and averages, gathering insights, creating personas and summary reports for different departments
through presentations, posters, graphics, workshops, and training. Brought expertise in research methods into all
business units and incorporated business KPIs, requirements, and goals into annual research.
* Built strong collaborative relationships with C-level, external partners and internal teams to create research
programs, objectives, and target customers through an understanding of business needs (short-term and long-term).
Conducted interviews and surveys with company partners and industry experts.

03/2018 - 03/2019
Head of the Analytical Department
NOVYI KANAL

Developed a new strategy that helped to increase the commercial viewership in a highly competitive market:
+4% advertising earnings. Responsibilities included:
* Created a rating prediction forecast model for senior management to estimate future income based on predictive
modelling in data science using R language, and the analytics of the key audiences, their behaviour, and how and
what they consume.
* A member of the Television Industry Committee to provide the market reliable system of television audience
measurement and TV panel research data quality control system.
* Empathetic mentor for a team of three, providing a supportive team climate based on trust, coaching and
continuous development of the department.

09/2012 - 04/2017
Strategic Analyst, Senior Content Analyst
1+1 MEDIA GROUP

I helped increase cost efficiency and improve broadcasting content. Responsibilities included establishing the new unit
from scratch, developing and implementing an analytics strategy for content selection and procurement, developing and
supporting a reporting system for the team, providing conclusions to management, identifying, tracking and compiling
global television industry trends and opportunities (in more than 100 countries) and mentorship of interns.

04/2007 - 09/2012
Marketing Analyst
STARLIGHTMEDIA

I set up a pricing model that helped the successful execution of the sales plan, managed campaigns and advertisements,
developed the database, and delivered post-campaigns analyses.

Certifications

User Research – Methods and Best PracticesUser Research – Methods and Best Practices The Interaction Design Foundation
2023

Local Availability

Open to travel worldwide

Other

Here is my Portfolio: https://uxfol.io/9adc65c2 You can contact me also here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iryna-kostiuchok/
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