Sr. Cultural Researcher, Futures Insights, Devices Experience Design
Amazon · London, United Kingdom · Design
About this role
Amazon is hiring a senior-level Research Scientist in the machine learning function based in London, United Kingdom. The posting calls out experience with Figma, Agile.
- Role
- Research Scientist
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Department
- Design
- Posted
- Apr 9, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersJoin us in shaping the future of Amazon's revolutionary products! As a Sr. Cultural Researcher on the Futures Insights team, which is part of Amazon's Devices and Services Experience Design organization, you'll play a pivotal role in informing mid-to-long term strategic planning (3-5 years) for next-generation and net-new device and service innovations. Your research will help the organization situate emerging technologies within a deep understanding of enduring and emerging human needs, cultural trends, and broader systems (e.g., STEEP analysis). Our work begins at the start of the design process, identifying insights and opportunities to drive humanity-centered innovation throughout. We collaborate with a variety of teams and functions in our work, driving efforts that are at times embedded within futures concept explorations or independent of them. We recognize that the combination of skills and experience required to do this work can take many forms. Maybe you're a design ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, futures researcher, strategic foresight analyst, design strategist, or user experience researcher with deep experience in the 0-1 product space? Either way, we'd love to hear from you if this role sounds exciting. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities - Plan and execute global, in-field research programs on topics of strategic…