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# Lead Researcher

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## intro
BED.MONEY aims to provide opensource bitcoin projects, and local fintech startups with a user research repository that helps them "best address user needs, motivations, and pain points"[^reference]

## milestones
After 3 months we want to have an idea of the demand for user research for bitcoin related opensource projects and see if our model of an open repository of user research can be a business. Meaning, make $5000 in revenue/funding.

1. Rwanda
    - Personas published
    - Profiles for money services
2. Trinidad & Tobago
    - Personas published
    - Profiles for money services
3. ...

## job

### role
We're looking for someone who is able to lead all bed.money research initiatives and help us figure out what a sustainable researching funding model could be.

- Lead all areas of bed.money research and analysis
- Recruit and train local interviewers
- Create reports of findings for publishing on the website
- Test research funding models to see if the project can be sustainable
- Help designers & developers interpret research, so they can apply it to their own projects
- Collaborate with external parties to come up with new processes and improve existing ones
- Coordinate and assign tasks to core team members

### compensation
- 3 month contract
- $?? / month
- 20% of user research sales sold to businesses

### education
- unlimited books / online courses paid
- 8 hours per month of expert Q&A

### operational
- Flexible work hours
- Co-working space available (if in person)
- $500 / month budget for outsourcing work

### responsibilities
#### user research
- design user research studies
    - dairy studies
    - surveys
    - interviews
- recruit and be an enabler for local researchers
    - https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/339925
- analysis of results
    - https://www.nngroup.com/articles/thematic-analysis/
- creating and publishing user personas
    - https://anguscarbarns.me/blog/2019/5/27/how-to-create-more-usable-robust-user-personas
    - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/uxr_insights#personas
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#### communications
- Participate in discussions in #research in the BitcoinDesign slack
- Prepare tweet sized reports on interesting findings from research conducted (weekly)
- Present findings to designers and developers of opensource projects via regular community calls (bi-weekly)
- Get feedback from designers and developers on the structure of personsa pages and keep a record of what questions they would like to ask

#### sales + accounts
- prepare payment requests for compensation to researchers
- create research study packages
    - https://anguscarbarns.me/services/ux-research-consultant
- Explore crowdfunding as a way to get local research in areas that larger companies may not be interested in
    - https://crowd.science/campaigns/reconstructing-extinct-glaciers-patagonia-better-comprehend-southern-climate-mechanisms/
    - https://experiment.com/projects/the-power-of-mentorship-impacts-on-female-micro-entrepreneurs-in-medellin-colombia?s=discover
- gather leads for research study packages and create sales pipelines using Airtable as a CRM
- create sales page for bed.money custom research

#### documentation
- document everything
    - hackmd
    - airtable

[^reference]: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/07/10/building-a-ux-research-insights-repository/ "..."
