My name is Janie.

I am a strategy focused product researcher with several years of hands-on experience leading, planning, and synthesizing end-to-end user research while developing roadmaps and scaling research programs in an agile/scrum development setting for product led organizations.

I collaborate with product and cross functional teams to enable data backed product led growth. I engage in user research to better understand the needs and motivations behind what people want. By assessing users’ needs and motivations, I can work with product teams to create new features and improve experiences based on data.

I have experience working through all stages of the product research process including:

• Developing the research roadmap.
• Scoping and planning projects.
• Conducting market research and social listening.
• Performing both primary and secondary foundational discovery research.
• Conducting advanced mixed-method evaluative testing.
• Analyzing and reporting data.
• Defining requirements and communicating product recommendations.

I am passionate about in-depth user research to better understand the motivations, wants, and needs of people using a website, product, or service. My professional background and education allow me to delve deeply into the data to ensure the product reflects the user. Insight into research operations best practices and communicating actionable insights to stakeholders play a key role in my success as a product researcher.

For all inquires email me at hello@janieralston.com

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