This article provides free UX resources to help you prep for your next gig, along with a searchable database of open UX design, research, and research operations jobs. You can also check out the UX Job Board for the latest roles.
Looking for your next job in UX Research, Research Operations, or UX Design? You've come to the right place!
Even better news? We've rolled out an improved Ultimate UX Job Board to make it even easier to find your next best UX/user research and operations role (don't worry, you can still check out our old school filterable job board below too).
Scroll down for a slew of updated career and UX professional development resources assembled by our team, and be sure to make your way to our new job board, which you can get a sneak peek of below.
UX career resources
Here are just a few of our best UX career resources, including podcasts, templates, and how-to guides.
Starting your UX career
- 📖 These skills make a UX researcher stand out, according to experts
- 🎧 Breaking into the user research field with a former Meta UXR
- 💸 What does a career in UX pay? Check out this report for more
- 💻 Learn from these 37 UXR experts on LinkedIn
Preparing for the interview process
- 📖 Common UX interview questions and how to answer them
- 📖 UX community leaders share tips for navigating today's job market
- 🗺️ How to build a UX portfolio with examples of case studies
Learning UX research fundamentals
- 💻 Our Research 101 for Non-Researchers course is a perfect starting point
- 📚 The UX Field Guide is a comprehensive look at every phase of the process
- 🗺️ These research templates are free to download and can help you learn by doing
- 📈 Connect UX research to revenue with our free Business 101 for Researchers course
Become an AI x UXR expert
- 🤖 Hone your AI skills with the free AI for User Research 101 course
- 👀 Check out our Early Adopter's Guide to AI moderation
- 🎙️ Hear UX Lessons from a decade researching AI with Jess Holbrook of Microsoft
- 💡 Get expert insights on how AI is transforming user research from Harvard Business Review
- 🧠 Learn how a UX Researcher uses AI in their daily workflow
Growing your in-progress UX career
- 🎧 Treating your UX career like a product can help unlock new opportunities
- 🎧 The questions to ask when deciding between different UX trajectories
- 🎧 How three researchers landed their dream jobs—and what you can learn
- 🪜 The Universal ResearchOps Career Ladder
General professional development
- 💭 A User Researchers's Guide to thinking about the job market
- 🔎 How to identify companies that truly value user research
- 🧮 Calculate the ROI & impact your UX research has on your business
- 🎧 How conference and event networking can be fun and more comfortable
- 📖 Choosing between the individual contributor (IC) and manager pathways
- 📚 UX training courses, bootcamp, and certifications to consider this year
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