From Research to Product & Product to Research

​Spending time in another discipline not only helps you consider new career options. It broadens your exposure to new types of research and makes you more employable as a contractor. In this talk series, three researchers discuss their experiences in a different  product role. Sasha in product marketing, Shenoah in content design and Simran in a variety of roles including Application and Production Support. 

​What will be covered:

• ​The new roles they started and why research experience set them up well 

• ​The type of research they carried out in their new roles 

• ​Returning to, or in Simran’s case, starting a new career in research

• ​How they position their experience and view their research careers now

​About the speakers:

​Sasha Williamson is a freelance Market and UX Researcher with a passion for understanding how technology empowers people in their day to day lives and encourages positive behaviour change. She’s conducted research in a variety of organizations, from the streets of Delhi to large enterprise organizations. With 6 years experience in UX Research and 18 months experience in Product Marketing at Shopify, she’s experienced in understanding a user’s mindset when they first consider a product. 

​Shenoah Plewes is a UX and Product researcher who has a fascination with how information supports decision making. She’s done research with a variety of users and products, including with small business owners, warehouse workers, and individuals navigating bankruptcy. Following a year’s experience as a content designer at Shopify, she’s returned to research with a renewed perspective on collaboration.

​Simran Singh is an interdisciplinary UX Researcher with a passion for understanding complex human problems and conceptualizing ways to improve digital human experiences. He is a big-picture systems thinker with deep care for the why. His strengths lie in understanding user problems in depth and creating underlying models and frameworks that guide design solutions. With foundational knowledge and experience in the fields of user experience, engineering, and management disciplines he effectively balances user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in his work as a UX Researcher.